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Residents of San Martin Texmelucan, in the state of Puebla, flee after the… (Ulises Ruíz Basurto, EPA) 27 die in oil pipeline explosion in Mexico Oil thieves are suspected of causing the fire at a Pemex crude pumping station in central Mexico. At least 52 people are injured and 32 homes destroyed. At least 52 others we... | The explosion of an oil pipeline in in central Mexico has killed at least 27 individuals and injured 56 others. Twelve of the dead are children. Over 100 homes were damaged and at least 30 of them were destroyed. The explosion had an estimated blast radius of three miles. Describing exploding gas tanks that flew throug... |
(Adds survivor's name, quote, paragraph 8) By Joe Bavier KINSHASA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila sacked his transport minister on Friday as the death toll from the latest air accident in the central African country rose to more than 50. But Democratic Republic of Congo's authorities announced that... | An Antonov An-26. More than 50 people have been killed after a plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing president Joseph Kabila to fire his transport minister. The Russian-built Antonov An-26 twin-turboprop cargo plane went down into a market in the African nation's capital, Kinshasa, killing 51 a... |
Five pan-democratic candidates, including Paul Zimmerman and two “super seat” underdogs, pulled out of Sunday’s Legislative Council elections last night. The unprecedented move in local politics was seen as a last-minute effort to unite the fragmented bloc in the face of fierce competition from the pro-establishment ca... | As the approaches, six candidates considered to be in the suspended their campaigns on Friday. They were performing poorly in public opinion polls, and encouraged supporters to vote for other pan-democracy candidates instead. Independent candidate Andy Chui Labour Party candidate Suzanne Wu The candidates suspending t... |
Homolka is moved to the prison for women in Joliette, Que. Homolka is convicted of manslaughter in the two slayings during a closed, one-day trial and sentenced to 12 years. Bernardo is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement and aggravated sexual assault, and one count of ... | Paul Bernardo, Canada's most notorious serial murderer, has admitted more crimes. Bernardo has admitted to raping at least ten additional women during his time as the "Scarborough Rapist." In the early 1990s, Bernardo murdered three young women in Southern Ontario with his wife Karla Homolka. After his trial, he admitt... |
Anthony Weiner speaks to the media during a news conference. Weiner resigned from Congress, saying he cannot continue in office amid the intense controversy surrounding sexually explicit messages he sent online to several women. (Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig) After much speculation, Huma Abedin did not appear at husband... | Anthony Weiner Hillary Clinton, followed by Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin announced his resignation yesterday afternoon as a representative from New York to the U.S. , a position he has filled for twelve years. He has been under pressure from politicians within his own party after a engulfed his life and that of the Demo... |
A prolific band of hackers said it is ceasing operations after a nearly two-month spree of electronic break-ins, though questions remained about whether the attackers would simply regroup to pursue other mischief. The group—known as Lulz Security, or LulzSec—also released a final cache of files purportedly stolen from ... | LulzSec Logo The computer hacking organization disbanded yesterday, said the group in a statement. Released via , it states "our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance." The announcement comes a day after released leaked of private conversations between LulzSec members and days after ... |
{{slideshow.assets[slideshow.currentIndex].getTitle()}} Advertisement {{slideshow.assets[slideshow.currentIndex].getDescription() + " "}} Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in over 42 years on Wednesday, creating a remarkable scene of smoke plumes and ash shooting into the sky. The nation's National Off... | Satellite image of Calbuco ash plume on Thursday. The volcano in Southern Chile twice on Wednesday. It was the first major eruption of the volcano in over fifty years. The Chilean said the second eruption was more powerful than the first. By reports, the first eruption caused some regional panic. Emergency officials ha... |
PEACEKEEPERS spent six hours begging Israeli commanders to halt multiple air bombings near a United Nations observation post before a missile killed four unarmed observers there, it emerged last night. UN officials said that the monitors made ten phone calls to the Israeli army between 1.20pm on Tuesday when an Israe... | __NOTOC__ An Israeli bombardment killed four United Nations Observers, despite multiple warnings by UN peacekeeper. The peacekeepers at the post said the area within a kilometer of the post was hit with precision munitions, including 17 bombs and 12 artillery shells, four of which directly hit the UN observation post. ... |
This weekend's arrest of 10 members of an Idaho-based Baptist charity for trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border with the Dominican Republic without proper paperwork has become an international incident. Boston When does adoption become child trafficking? That question seems to be the last thing that Hait... | Haitian police yesterday arrested ten United States nationals, five men and five women, over the alleged abduction of 33 children. The nationals tried to cross with the children, aged between two months and twelve years, into the Dominican Republic, but were halted at the border. Lots of children have been affected by ... |
Ten years ago scientists still called it “junk” DNA, the chaotic jungle of irrelevant genetic code that filled the gap between our 20,000 or so working genes. More recently it was referred to as biology’s dark matter, when we began to realise that this code might have a function, but no one was quite sure what. Today t... | CERN The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started preliminary experiments on September 10, 2008 in CERN, Geneva, and the planned International Linear Collider (ILC) will carry out a series of experiments in the future to validate the standard model of particle physics. The model predicts that Higgs boson particles giv... |
Tropical Storm MINDY Home Public Advisory Forecast/Advisory Discussion Probabilities Maps/Charts Archive 000 WTNT33 KNHC 110836 TCPAT3 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM MINDY ADVISORY NUMBER 3 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 AM AST SAT OCT 11 2003 ...MINDY PASSING JUST EAST OF GRAND TURK ISLAND WITH MOST OF THE WEAT... | Hurricane Hanna The government of the Bahamas has issued a hurricane warning for the Central Bahamas, the Southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands. As of 17:30 UTC today the Hurricane is moving towards the west-southwest at a speed of 7 km/h and it is expected to hit the central and southeastern Bahamas du... |
(CNN) Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate, making the California senator the first Black and South Asian American woman to run on a major political party's presidential ticket. "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lea... | Yesterday, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's for President of the United States, announced Kamala Harris as his choice for running mate in the 2020 United States presidential election. Harris in 2017 Biden wrote that "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Trump and Mike Pence ... |
ST. ANDREWS, Man. -- Exhaustion could be the latest enemy for crews and volunteers trying to defend their communities against flooding in Manitoba. Municipal crews and hundreds of volunteers are working long hours, sometimes with little sleep, to fill sandbags, protect homes and melt thick ice that has blocked culverts... | Red River FloodwayLocal municipal and provincial volunteers in Manitoba, Canada are exhausted in their efforts to divert the rising waters of the Red River of the North. It has been hard work with little sleep for the residents who live on the shores of the Red River to shore up their defences with sandbags, build dike... |
Army commander Gen. Mario Montoya resigned Tuesday amid a widening scandal surrounding the Colombian armed forces’ alleged practice of inflating body counts by shooting innocent civilians and claiming them as guerrillas killed in combat. Montoya is the highest-ranking official to lose his job over the “false positives”... | Juan Manuel Santos, George W. Bush, Álvaro Uribe and Mario Montoya Uribe, in Bogotá, March 2007 General Mario Montoya resigned on Tuesday amid a widening scandal surrounding the Colombian armed forces. An investigation showed that the military personnel under his command had been inflating their successess against rebe... |
Wednesday, December 28 2005 @ 03:56 PM GMT Contributed by: Views: 354 On Boxing Day morning, a new group of supporters of the campaign managed to enter and re-occupy Café Francesca in Broadway Market, East London. The cafe had been occupied by local residents for weeks, in protest against gentrification and the cut-pri... | Broadway market occupation For several weeks, a group of local residents has kept Francesca's Café on 34 Broadway Market, Hackney, East London occupied day and night to prevent its demolition and conversion into luxury flats by property developer Dr Roger Wratten. The occupation was evicted on 21st December by police a... |
Giant of Russian Jazz George Garanyan Passes Away Luminary of the Russian jazz, the People’s Artist of Russia George Garanian has died at the age of 75 in Krasnodar. The famous saxophone player, conductor and composer suffered a heart attack two days before the expected concert in Krasnodar. The concert will not be can... | Russian alto saxophone player, conductor, and composer of Armenian origin George Garanian died aged 75 years last Monday at a hospital in Krasnodar, where he planned some concerts together with Michel Legrand and a city big band. George Garanian was born in 1934 in Moscow. In the 1950s he played in the Orchestra of the... |
Libya: France recognises rebels as government Rebels have been engaged in fierce fighting with government troops France has become the first country to recognise the Libyan rebel leadership, the National Libyan Council (NLC), as the country's legitimate government. But other members of the European Union held back, wit... | Flag of the former , which the and the Libyan opposition in general has adopted as their flag. France became the first country to formally recognize a newly formed Libyan opposition council as the "legitimate representative of the Libyan people." The office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday it will s... |
March 20: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses how gruesome drug-war violence occurring in Mexico has spilled into U.S. cities. March 26: MSNBC’s David Shuster speaks with people who lost their family members in the 9/11 tragedy about changes in the Ground Zero plans. NEW YORK - The Freedom Tower i... | The 108-floor central component of the new in New York City has been officially renamed , ending the Freedom Tower moniker it had sported since 2003. Freedom Tower was envisioned as a symbol of America's victory over terrorism. It is currently on track for completion in 2013, with 10 floors partially finished so far. 1... |
Published Date: 18 November 2009 A FORMER Lytham schoolboy killed while serving in Afghanistan was today described by his heartbroken wife as a "true hero". Corporal Loren Marlton-Thomas - an Army bomb disposal expert - was killed by an improvised explosive device while clearing a route in Helmand Province on Sunday. T... | A British soldier has been killed in a bomb explosion in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, according to an announcement from the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday. The soldier, who came from Braintree, in the English county of Essex, has been named as 28-year-old Corporal Loran Owen Christopher Marlton-Thomas. He was... |
Rescue workers examine the wreckage of the two trains Enlarge Image A passenger train collided with a goods train in Zoufftgen, near the Luxembourg border, at about 1145 (0945 GMT). It was initially reported that as many as 12 people may have died, but the French transport minister said later that five were confirmed d... | Two trains have collided head-on in eastern France at Zoufftgen in the Moselle region of France, close to the Luxembourg border, at around 11:45 local time (09:45 UTC) earlier today. Based on inital reports, BBC News has suggested 10 passenger deaths as well as the those of two train drivers involved in the incident an... |
There is also a deeply divided country to heal. More than 1,000 Kenyans have been killed and hundreds of thousands driven from their homes in an uncharacteristic burst of violence set off by a deeply flawed election in December. Much of the fighting, like the voting, has been along ethnic lines. The two-page power-shar... | The heads of the government and opposition in Kenya have signed a power sharing agreement aimed at ending the crisis over December's disputed elections. The agreement was reached after a day of talks mediated by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Chairman of the . Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki an... |
Hospital patients evacuated into open air after Sumbawa quake At least one person has been killed and several others injured after a strong undersea earthquake hit the remote Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The quake struck near a small island chain east of Lombok resort, damaging homes, schools and mosques. It measured ... | At least one person was killed and several dozen more were injured on Monday, after a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck near the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. According to US Geological Survey statistics, the epicentre of the quake was sixteen kilometres from the town of Raba (about 1,300 kilometres fro... |
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel's military advocate general said the use of cluster bombs by the country's armed forces during last year's war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon was done so in accordance with international law and, as a result, he will not file charges against any military officers who ordered their use. A L... | An Israeli military investigation has announced that the use of cluster bombs during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict last year did not violate international law. The UN General Assembly stated that Israel's use of the bombs were "shocking and immoral." Israel holds that "the use of the weaponry was a concrete military nec... |
By Ahmed Ali Amir MORONI (Reuters) - An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said. A doctor in the Comoros told Reuters a child had been plucked ali... | (File photo) A Yemenia Airways A310 According to reports, a Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 passenger jet has crashed into the Indian Ocean near the island nation of Comoros. At least 153 people were onboard the aircraft, 66 of them from Paris, France. So far the only reported survivor is a teenage girl. The plane crashed ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has accused the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, of associating with terrorists. With the Republicans trailing in the polls a month before the presidential election, Mrs Palin said the time ... | File photo of Sarah Palin At a Republican rally in , U.S. governor and Vice-Presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists who would target their own country". The charge was repeated at a later rally for around 13,000 , supporters. The accusation centers ... |
Brazilian and French teams have been searching the Atlantic Ocean Debris spotted by planes in waters 650km (400 miles) off Brazil's coast belongs to a missing French airliner, the Brazilian government has confirmed. Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said he had no doubt the debris was from the Air France jet carrying 228 p... | Wreckage from an airplane in the Atlantic Ocean 650 kilometres from the coast of Brazil has been confirmed by the Brazilian government to be from Air France Flight 447. Nelson Jobim , the Brazilian Defence Minister, said that there were no survivors. An airplane seat and life vest were found floating in Atlantic waters... |
AP Photo AKCF104 By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press Writer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - About 100 masked militants stormed the heavily guarded home of Gaza's former security chief Wednesday, dragged him outside in his pajamas and shot him, a challenge to the Palestinian Authority days before Israel was to hand over Gaz... | The World Factbook. Former Palestinian security chief Moussa Arafat, cousin of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was assassinated at his home in the Gaza Strip after a half-hour shootout between a number of militants and Arafat's bodyguards. The force, estimated to be up to a hundred men, overpowered Arafat's ... |
Trevor Bayne wins Daytona 500 Email Associated Press Young And Relentless Young And Relentless VIDEO PLAYLIST DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Trevor Bayne finally made a mistake. Fortunately for him, it didn't happen until he missed the turn pulling into Victory Lane at the Daytona 500. [+] Enlarge Mark J. Rebilas/US Presswire ... | File photo of Trevor Bayne driver , who qualified thirty-second, won the NASCAR held on Sunday at in , Florida, United States. This became his first win of his career, and his first at Daytona International Speedway. Throughout the course of the race there were 16 cautions and 74 lead changes among 22 different driver... |
At least one of France, Italy or Holland will not make the quarters The seedings were based on qualifiers over the last four years so Italy will face France in a repeat of the 2006 World Cup final in Group C's last game. Only the top two teams from each group go through to the knock-out stages. Switzerland will face th... | The draw for UEFA Euro 2008 was held today in Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament will be held in Austria and Switzerland, beginning on 7 June 2008. Austria and Poland, both making their debuts in the European Championships, were drawn against Germany and Croatia in Group B. Co-hosts Switzerland will open the tourname... |
Home > Press Room > Media Releases > Peer-to-Peer Software Ruled Legal In The U.S. Business Solutions Press Room - Media Releases - In the News - Image Library - Online Press Kit - Contacts About Sharman Contact Us Resources Peer-to-Peer Software Ruled Legal In The U.S. August 20, 2004 - Sharman Networks Response To N... | The trial against internet file-sharing network Kazaa in Sydney, Australia, is coming to an end, as closing arguments began today. Kazaa pleaded it could not be held responsible for the copyright infringements perpetrated by its users, as it cannot control how the software is used. The peer-to-peer distribution softwar... |
Egypt records 19th bird flue fatality after two women die Monday CAIRO, Egypt: Egyptian health officials reported the deaths Monday of two women from bird flu, bringing to 19 the number of the country's fatalities since the lethal H5N1 strain first appeared here last year. The deaths, along with those of two other wome... | A woman in Egypt has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. H5N1 has killed two other Egyptian women already this week, bringing the total dead of the virus in Egypt to 18. Fardous Mahammed Hadad was taken into hospital on Sunday after having difficulty breathing and developing a high fever, and subsequently tested posit... |
Sun has put some substance behind its Java open-source strategy with the release of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), a version two years in the making and featuring the input of over 330 external developers, it said. In a move likely to cause a stampede of interest, Sun is also offering 60 days of free sup... | Sun Microsystems released the latest installment in their popular Java programming language line today, Java Standard Edition 6.0. Though this release, codenamed "Mustang", is not as drastic a departure from its predecessors as version 5.0, Sun reports more features, and noticeably better performance. In addition, the ... |
Five foreigners among 41 dead in Philippine bus accident BAGUIO, Philippines — Forty-one people, including five foreigners, were killed when a packed bus plunged into a deep ravine in the northern Philippines, authorities said Thursday. A family of four Americans of Filipino descent who were visiting their old hometown... | According to reports, at least 35 people are dead while six are seriously injured in the northern Philippines after a bus plunged into a 100 meter deep ravine. The accident occurred early Wednesday near the city of Baguio, 200 kilometres north of the capital Manila. The accident happened when the brakes on the vehicle ... |
PARIS, March 22 -- On an August day in 1967, two children tending a herd of cows outside a village in central France reported seeing "four small black beings" fly from the ground and slip headfirst into a sphere that shot skyward in a flash of light and trail of sulfuric odors. The alleged extraterrestrial sighting, de... | French space agency CNES released its UFO files to the public through its website on Thursday. The 100,000 pages of witness testimony, photographs, film footage and audiotapes are an accumulation of more than 1,600 sightings since 1954 and will include all future UFO reports obtained by the agency. Jacques Patenet, an ... |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a sweeping ban on handguns in the nation's capital violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Ariel Sarousi, left, and Steve Bierfeld of Arlington, Virginia, celebrate the court's ruling Thursday. The justices struck down the ban in a 5-4 decision, w... | The United States Supreme Court The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-4 decision that a Washington, D.C. ban of personal firearms possession is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Antonin Scalia, the court found that "he Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected ... |
Miles de campesinos marcharon por las calles de la capital del país para manifestar su rechazo a la apertura del capítulo agropecuario del Tratado de Libre de Comercio de América del Norte. Largas filas de tractores desplazándose a poca velocidad se observaron en varias de las vías de acceso a Ciudad de México. Ayer un... | Thousands of farmers marched through the streets of Mexico City to express their opposition to the agricultural section of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Witnesses have reported that long rows of tractors moving at slow speed were observed in several of the access roads to Mexico City. Authorities hav... |
Six people have been arrested over a breach at the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility in central Australia. (ABC TV) Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested a sixth person over this morning's breach of security at the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility in central Australia. The members of the group "Christians Against ... | have arrested six people following a breach of security at the secretive in central Australia on Friday. The members of the group Christians Against All Terrorism (CAAT) breached base security at dawn and two of them infiltrated two perimeter fences and scaled a building, before being arrested. Two of the protesters ph... |
Russia has rebuffed Israel's criticism of President Dmitry Medvedev's meeting with the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas. Israel's foreign ministry said it was "deeply disappointed" that Medvedev had met Khaled Meshaal, the group's exiled leader, during a visit to Syria this week. "Hamas is not an artificial struct... | Russian president Dmitriy Medvedev met with the , leader of the Hamas group, earlier this week in Syria, prompting criticism from Israel. Medvedev, during the meeting, had encouraged Hamas to reconciliate with rival Fatah; a spokeswoman quoted him as saying that "no one" should be left out of the peace process. He also... |
Top Stories Donna Dean, wife of Jimmy Dean, stands inside the den of their home which is being rebuilt after it was heavily damaged in a fire several months ago. Country-music legend Jimmy Dean was so upset by the fire that gutted his Henrico County home that even today, more than three months later, he refuses to look... | Schematic representation of the DNA which illustrates its double helix structure. New DNA tests done on Roger Keith Coleman, the Virginia man executed in May 1992 for rape and murder, find him guilty of committing the crime. The results were announced by Governor Mark Warner during a Thursday afternoon news conference.... |
Firefighters and other emergency services were sent to the scene Scene of the attack Syria said three attackers were killed and a fourth captured as they tried to drive two cars at the compound. One security officer was killed. Syrian media blamed Islamic extremists but no-one has said they carried out the attack. One ... | Guards in charge of security at the United States Embassy in Damascus, Syria have stopped a "terrorist operation" just outside the embassy's walls, according to a statement by the Syrian government. Several other areas near other embassies located in Rawda, Syria have also been shut down in order to secure the surround... |
A nation-wide honeybee crisis is under way in the United States. Lately bees have begun to rapidly disappear in 24 states across the country. For reasons unknown, bees are flying off in search of nectar and pollen and simply never returning to their colonies. The bee losses are reportedly ranging from 30 to 60 percent ... | A honeybee landing on a milk thistle flower. At least 24 states across the United States are reporting that honeybees are disappearing and the reason is not known, but scientists have an idea of what might be causing the disappearance. "Every day, you hear of another operator. It's just causing so much death so quickly... |
Silence is defining the early hours of what may become a tense negotiation between the United States and North Korea. The U.S. State Department says it is aware of reports the North has two U.S. citizens in custody. The two are believed to be journalists reporting at the North's border with China. Undated photos of Ame... | The Tumen River forms part of the border between China and North Korea. The North Korean military has detained two American journalists after they allegedly crossed into North Korea from China by accident. "Two reporters working for a U.S.-based Internet news media outlet, including a Korean-American, were detained by ... |
GIs take cover behind a truck in the video game 'Six Days in Fallujah.' The plug's been pulled, for now, on "Six Days in Fallujah." Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported Tuesday that game publisher Konami has decided not to release the ultra-realistic Iraq combat game, which is based on the bloody 2004 battle betwee... | The game publisher Konami stated today in a Japanese newspaper that they will not be releasing the game ''Six Days in Fallujah''. The game is based on the Second Battle of Fallujah, a vicious battle between American and Iraqi forces. "After seeing the reaction to the video game in the United States and hearing opinions... |
Mobile phone penetration increased by 6% from 88% to 94% here in the last quarter of 2004. That is according to the latest quarterly report from the Commission for Communications Regulation, which highlights a number of key trends in the electronic communications sector. The ComReg report says that there are now an est... | Broadband penetration is increasing rapidly According to a quarterly report by ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation) on the Irish telecommunications market released today, Irish mobile phone penetration has hit a new record of 94%. This is an increase of 6% from the same time last year, when penetration rat... |
In a boost to the Australian Defence Force, Australia is due to accept a formal invitation to become an enhanced Nato partner. Australia is set to boost ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful political and military grouping. Foreign minister Julie Bishop says Australia will a... | Today Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced Australia would accept an invitation to become an enhanced partner of NATO at the NATO conference later this week. The conference, being held in Wales, is to feature the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, who it was yesterday announced would be sending their defen... |
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Liquori micidiali, fatti in casa, hanno ucciso in Turchia almeno 43 persone in due settimane. Il giornale Hurriyet parla di 18 morti nella provincia di Izmir (Smirne), dove si sono contate le prime vittime e dove è scattato l'allarme per la circolazione di alcol adulterato. Dodici persone sono finite in manette. Altre ... | An Afghan doctor, Rahmatullah Hanefi, who works for the Italian non-governmental organization (NGO), ''Emergency'', will go on trial in Afghanistan for his alleged role in the March, 2007 slaying of Afghan interpreter and reporter, Adjmal Nashbandi. Italian journalist, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver and interpreter ... |
Looks like Ecocentric may need to find something new to write about. On Sunday morning retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen—who may need to find a new job soon—made it official: BP's blown Macondo well has now been killed. After the long-awaited relief well successfully intersected the original well a couple of days ... | A worker cleans up oily waste on the coast of an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of workers are cleaning up oil from the damaged ''Deepwater Horizon'' wellhead that reached the shore a month after the ultra-deepwater oil rig exploded, killing 11 people. The ''Deepwater Horizon'' is dead. Almost five months after... |
Zambia president Edgar Lungu not looking too sprightly. BELOW, his more robust nemesis Hichilema of the opposition UPND. (Photos AFP). ZAMBIA’s leader Edgar Lungu will have treatment abroad for throat surgery, the presidency said Monday, only a day after he was diagnosed with malaria after falling in public. Lungu coll... | Edgar Lungu was elected President of Zambia in January , the current President of Zambia, is to undergo medical treatment aboard after collapsing while on stage in on Sunday during a ceremony for International Women's Day. The Presidency announced yesterday that Lungu will have throat surgery abroad. Doctors on Sunday ... |
Story Highlights • NEW: Photos of 9/11 hijackers, listing of pilot license fees found on computer • Mohammed: "I decapitated ... the American Jew, Daniel Pearl" • "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," says transcript • He admits 29 other terrorist acts, including plans to kill pope, president Adjust ... | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed upon capture in Rawalpindi in March 2003. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged 9/11 mastermind and number 3 in Al-Qaeda's hierarchy, confessed on Saturday that he was responsible for beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, according to a military tribunal transcript released by th... |
Los Angeles -- Sony on Monday unveiled its PlayStation 3, a powerful next- generation console that has the ability to display cinematic-quality graphics for gamers. Ken Kutaragi, president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., showed off the new system with rounded sides that will come in white, silv... | The new, sleek Playstation 3 design On Monday, President and CEO of Sony, Ken Kutaragi unveiled the next generation of the PlayStation game console. The PlayStation 3 console is planned to: * Be based on IBM's Cell processor, containing nine separate processing cores, eight of which are to run at 3.2 GHz. * Contain six... |
Video (02:12) : When Laurie Coleman, wife of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, hauled her trash to the alley at 7:30 this morning, a chilling sight greeted her. Spray-painted in black on the wooden siding of the garage in the couple's Summit Hill neighborhood was this angry graffiti, in letters nearly a foot high: "U R A CRIMINA... | An unknown person or persons wrote graffiti and vandalized the exterior of homes belonging to six members of the United States congressional delegation from the state of Minnesota late last Monday night or early Tuesday morning. According to the ''Star Tribune'', Laurie Coleman, wife of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, found... |
Iceland has reported unusual seismic activity at Mount Hekla, one of its most active volcanos, and has raised its alert level but says no eruption is imminent. The Icelandic Met Office said it had raised its aviation warning level a notch on Tuesday for the first time in two years following "elevated unrest above a kno... | A gated field with a snowcovered Hekla in the background Yesterday, at 11:00am local time in Iceland, the National Commissioner of the declared an "uncertainty phase", the lowest civilian volcanic alert level, for the country's which is located on the southern part of island nation. The warning was intended to aid in ... |
Duke of Edinburgh leaves hospital Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Continue reading the main story Related Stories The Duke of Edinburgh has left hospital, 11 nights after he was admitted for exploratory abdominal surgery. Prince Philip, 92, walked out of the private London Clinic where he ... | , the husband of the current British monarch, today departed from the , located in the centre of the British capital, after eleven days. Prince Philip, who is aged 92, was hospitalised on June 6 to be given on his abdomen. According to the BBC, it was thought the Prince would remain in hospital for two weeks. The abdom... |
The handset has boosted sales for 02 Vodafone has reached an agreement to sell Apple's popular iPhone in the UK. The announcement follows news that network operator Orange had secured a similar agreement with Apple. The deals mark an end to the exclusive UK arrangement between O2 and the US technology firm, which has b... | Mobile operator Orange has announced it will soon be selling Apple's iPhone in the United Kingdom. The deal marks an end to rival network O2's position as sole UK supplier of the smartphone. Apple's iPhone (2007) Orange has not yet given details of pricing or dates, but said the iPhone will be available to buy "later t... |
Tony Stewart led the Kobalt Tools 400 in Las Vegas late and led more laps than any other driver, but late pit strategy helped Carl Edwards surge ahead for his first win of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Edwards' two-tire pit call on the final stop helped him beat Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose and Ryan... | Carl Edwards in 2007 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the race track where the race was held. driver , who qualified third, won the held on Sunday at in , Nevada, United States. This became his first Sprint Cup win of the . Throughout the course of the race there were seven and 22 lead changes among 15 different drivers. Bef... |
Sea Launch Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 Mission Success! The Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 mission was successfully completed. The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from the Odyssey Launch Platform at 9:03 P.M. PDT. All phases of the mission profile performed as expected. The mission ended with spacecraft separation from the B... | thumb The ''Ocean Odyssey'' launch platform A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket has successfully launched the DirecTV-11 Communications satellite for DirecTV. The Ukrainian-built rocket lifted off from the Norwegian Ocean Odyssey launch platform in the Pacific Ocean at 22:47:59 (UTC) yesterday evening, with spacecraft separa... |
Nemenhah Chief says he hasn't had contact with Mother and Son By KSPR News A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Colleen Hauser. She is the Minnesota woman who took off with her cancer-stricken son, 13-year old Daniel Hauser. Daniel has been refusing chemotherapy saying he is instead following the teachings of th... | On Tuesday, Minnesota's Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg ordered chemotherapy for Daniel Hauser. He also issued the felony warrant for the arrest of Colleen Hauser, Daniel's mother. The judge said Daniel should be cared for in a foster home because the parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, medically neglected ... |
The Australian soldier killed by a rogue Afghan soldier was shot four times as he walked down stairs at a patrol base in Afghanistan on Monday. In an updated account of the incident, Defence Minister Stephen Smith today said the Afghan soldier was alone in a watch tower as one his comrades was making his way to the gro... | On Monday night, two Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan died in separate incidents. This brings the total death toll to 26 for Australians fighting in the 'war against terrorism'. These events have sparked renewed debates about the role Australians play in this region. Greens leader has called for the return of... |
Can't bear thought of highway By MATT KIELTYKA, 24 HOURS April 24, 2009 A local environmental group attempted to give Premier Gordon Campbell one final slap on the paw before the provincial election. Decked out in polar bear suits to illustrate the impact of global warming, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservat... | On Thursday in Canada, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee delivered petitions with over 10,000 signatorys to the Premier of British Columbia's office. The petitions ask that the government cancel the Gateway Program's highway expansions components and inv... |
Remember Me HELLSHOCK "Shadows of the Afterworld" BIGELF "Hex" JAPANISCHE KAMPFHÖRSPIELE "Rauchen und Yoga" ELECTRIC WIZARD "Witchcult Today" VESANIA "Distractive Killusions" Last Updated: December 13, 2007 9:27 AM TARJA TURUNEN: Budapest Concert Footage Posted Online - Nov. 29, 2007 NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen's No... | Pukkelpop in 2005. Finnish symphonic rock/symphonic power metal soloist Tarja Turunen has played the first dates on her debut tour as a solo artist after losing her position as the lead vocalist for Nightwish. The tour is in support of her new album ''My Winter Storm''. Tarja has met with some early success as a solo a... |
Fireworks light up the sky during the Closing Ceremony on August 24 in Beijing. (Photo credit: Xinhua) Detailed summary of the Closing Ceremony (BEIJING, August 24) -- Heavenly drums, silver bell dancers, light wheels and flying men took center stage to greet guests at the National Stadium Sunday, August 24, for the cl... | Beijing National Stadium during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony. The 2008 Summer Olympics were formally declared closed during a colourful ceremony at the iconic Beijing National Stadium with the Olympics flag being handed over to the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. It began at 8:00 P.M. China Standard T... |
Children are among the victims in Gaza Addressing the Security Council, he condemned Israel's "excessive" use of force and called Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel "acts of terrorism". The Security Council later voiced deep concern at the events but failed to condemn either side. At least 54 Palestinians and two Isr... | United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has deplored Israel for using excessive force in the Gaza Strip after troops killed 61 people Saturday including eight children, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since the 1980s. Addressing the Security Council, Ban condemned Israel's excessive use of force, but also criti... |
On Monday, September 24th, Columbia University will host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In so doing, the university is extending not a courtesy, but continuing a policy of anti-Israeli and anti-American leftist nihilism under the guise of academic freedom. The Columbia Conservative Alumni Association supports t... | Protest swept the campus in Morningside Heights. Harlem, waving a Bible. "This man is terrible! You're pitiful!". The Columbia University campus in New York City erupted today in protest over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's debate with Columbia President Lee Bollinger. Ahmadinejad's presence on one of the United States... |
NEW DELHI: Police arrested a passenger after he threatened to hijack a plane flying to New Delhi from the western tourist destination of Goa. The domestic airliner made an emergency landing Sunday at New Delhi Airport and was quickly surrounded by police commandos who arrested the unarmed man, Indigo Airlines President... | Shown here is an IndiGo A320, similar to the one involved. An Indian man has been arrested after threatening to hijack the domestic flight on which he was traveling on Sunday February 1. The flight was traveling between New Delhi and Goa in India. The IndiGo Airlines Airbus A320 was coming in to land at the time. Jiten... |
Adjust font size: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Republican Tommy Thompson, a former Health and Human Services secretary under President Bush, said Wednesday he would form a committee early next year to explore a possible 2008 White House bid. Thompson said his experience as a former Wisconsin governor and as health secretary... | Tommy Thompson Ex-Wisconsin Governor has decided to launch an exploratory committee early next year to explore a possible 2008 White House bid. Thompson is one of three large Republican candidates to form exploratory committees in the past week. Senator (-Arizona) and Former New York Mayor both have formed committees; ... |
A spiritual group whose "living god" founder has been accused of sexually abusing young boys has become an accredited partner of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, the Guardian can reveal. Last night pressure was mounting on the charity to break its links with the group whose followers are devoted to the preachings of... | Allegations of paedophilia made against Indian guru, Sathya Sai Baba are back in the limelight again, after the UK's Sai Youth movement was recognised as an accredited partner of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. The Baba's followers deny the allegations, and the Sai Youth UK's National Co-ordinator called them "to... |
China Hands Down More Death Sentences for Xinjiang Riots China has sentenced six more people to death for murders committed during July riots in far northwestern Xinjiang region. This brings the number of people facing the death penalty for their involvement in the riots to nine. China saw its worst ethnic violence in ... | China has sentenced six more people to death for murders committed during July riots in far northwestern Xinjiang region. This brings the number of people facing the death penalty for their involvement in the riots to nine. Xinjiang region, China China saw its worst ethnic violence in decades, when riots erupted in Xin... |
Eighth Wonder submits $5.5b bid for Sentosa Integrated Resort Related News Eighth Wonder promises unrivalled attractions in eco-friendly resort Eighth Wonder to work with renowned French chef on proposed Sentosa IR Special Report • Photo Gallery: Sentosa IR bid - Eighth Wonder SINGAPORE: The final bidder for Sentos... | The third and last bidder for Singapore's Sentosa Integrated Resort (IR) project, Eighth Wonder, submitted its development plan yesterday: a SGD 5.5 billion(USD 3.52 billion) eco-friendly casino known as "Harry's Island". Harry's Island will boast 10 luxury, family-oriented hotels, a tree house with family suites, and ... |
Enlarge By Charles Dharapak, AP Barack Obama leaves a news conference in Chicago with Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton. They are followed by members of his newly-named security team, from top left: Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and James... | Orlando, Florida. United States President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his former presidential opponent, junior New York Senator Hillary Clinton, to be his next Secretary of State. Obama made his announcement in a press conference in a Chicago, Illinois hotel, where he also named the rest of his 'security' cabinet. "I... |
Submitted by WDEF News 12 and CBS on March 4, 2010 - 4:23pm. Comments Below: 0 Captain Chesley Sullenberger landed a US Airways jet for the final time. The flight into his home base of Charlotte was met by firetrucks supplying a water salute. The pilot was once again paired with first officer Jeff Skiles...the same tea... | Chesley Sullenberger. On Wednesday, Captain Chesley Sullenberger retired. The US Airways pilot was best known for the "Miracle on the Hudson," when he landed Flight 1549 safely down on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. After a bird strike in which both engines were blown out, Sullenberger was forced to land the pla... |
Explore the BBC This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) i... | A video has surfaced online that appears to show at least two Russian missiles flying out of control after the Lodeynoe Pole air force base caught fire in St Petersburg on May 23. The video, which was broadcast by ''BBC News'' is about 45 seconds long and shows at least two out of control missiles being launched from w... |
Mr Schroeder is taking a huge political gamble, say analysts Mr Schroeder had urged deputies to vote his government down, so he could seek a new mandate for controversial reforms. President Horst Koehler must now decide if there are grounds to call elections a year ahead of the original schedule. An early election is e... | The German Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler), Gerhard Schröder, deliberately lost a confidence vote in the German lower parliamentary house, the Bundestag. Schröder had aimed to lose the vote of confidence in order to dissolve the Bundestag and to achieve earlier elections. In debate, Schröder argued, that there is no... |
The world-famous Getty Center art complex and nearby Mount St. Mary's College were evacuated Wednesday as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains. MOST POPULAR: Video, stories and more SIGN-UP: Get breaking news sent to you from ABC7 The fire erupted at 12:44 p.m. and quickly grew... | A brush fire erupted at 12:44 p.m. PDT Wednesday in the Westside neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California. Many structures, including the Getty Museum, are threatened. Visitors to the museum were seen to line up awaiting transport out of the area. Over 800 employees and an undetermined number of visitors were evacuated... |
Un nuevo accidente minero se registró pasado el mediodía de hoy en las cercanías de Copiapó, esta vez en la mina Los Reyes, en el sector de Quebrada de Puquios, aproximadamente 65 kilómetros al este de esa ciudad, específicamente en el camino internacional que une a Atacama con Argentina. De acuerdo a las primeras info... | Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, in August 2010. Another occurred on Monday, in the city of Copiapó, Chile, where 33 miners had been trapped for 69 days and were rescued on October 13. Two miners, Homero Aguirre Aguirre, 40, and Daniel Lazcano, 24, were killed in the Los Reyes mine in Quebrada de Puquios, located 65 ... |
EastEnders prompted 8,400 complaints to the corporation and 374 to media regulator Ofcom. Photograph: Planet Photos/BBC/Planet Photos EastEnders' controversial cot death plot became the most complained-about storyline in the soap's 26-year historytoday as BBC executives fought a rearguard action to quell an unprecedent... | Some 8,400 complaints have been made to the BBC and 374 complaints have been received by , a British media regulator, after soap opera '''' broadcasted what described as the "cot death storyline". Part of the ''EastEnders'' set. The storyline involves character – portrayed by – taking her baby, who experienced (SIDS), ... |
Facing mounting pressure from critics on campus, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers gave in yesterday to professors who demanded that he release the transcript of controversial remarks he made on women in science at an economics conference last month. ADVERTISEMENT In a letter to the faculty explaining why he releas... | A human brain, imaged with an fMRI scanner. Michael Gurian, psychologist and author of "''What Could He Be Thinking?''", has claimed to identify approximately one hundred structural differences between male and female brains in a recent study. Gurian comments: :"''Men, because we tend to compartmentalize our communicat... |
Trial of human rights defender begins in Beijing CLIFFORD COONAN in Beijing CHINESE HUMAN rights defender Wang Lihong went on trial yesterday in Beijing on charges of “creating a disturbance”, in a process that many believe is evidence of Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on dissent. Wang Lihong (56), who has backed jailed N... | A Chinese human rights activist went on trial Friday in Beijing on charges relating to her participation in a protest last year. Wang Lihong, 56, faces charges of "creating a disturbance" after demonstrating in support of three accused of slandering Chinese government officials in April 2010. She was arrested in March ... |
This 2008 high school yearbook photo, provided by Lifetouch Photography, shows Tiffany Pohlson, 17, one of three teens killed in a shooting Thursday, July 31, 2008, near Niagara, Wis. A fourth victim, 20-year-old Daniel Louis Gordon, was wounded. Police arrested the alleged gunman, Scott J. Johnson, 38, Friday in the w... | Map of the Menominee River. The Associated Press reported early Friday that a camouflaged gunman opened fire, killing three, on a northeast Wisconsin river Thursday night. A fourth person was wounded when the gunman opened fire at about 5:30 p.m. The four victims had gathered to go swimming near the East Kingsford rail... |
U.S. Army soldiers prepare to search an automotive yard in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, 06 Nov. 2007 The U.S. military has announced the deaths of five soldiers and one sailor in Iraq, making 2007 the deadliest year for the U.S. military in Iraq since the war started in 2003.... | The bodies of 22 people have been found in a mass grave according to the United States military in Iraq, in the Lake Thar Thar region of Baghdad. The bodies, discovered by Iraqi troops working with U.S. coalition forces on Saturday, were found during an operation known as Operation Fahwat al Asad 2. Military personnel ... |
State Unemployment Keeps Rising; Three Hit Record Highs Text Size News Associate By: Joseph Pisani News Associate Woman filing for unemployment. Unemployment continued to rise in many states in August, with joblessness in three states— California, Nevada, and Rhode Island—reaching record highs, according to government ... | Final August unemployment data was released yesterday with states indicating continued nonfarm payroll contraction going into the fall. The Labor Department indicated an overall increase in unemployment in 27 states, a decrease in 16 and no change in 7. Record high jobless rates were reached in California (12.2%), Neva... |
THE Indonesian pilot who allegedly ignored 15 warnings before crashing his Garuda jet that killed 21 people, including five Australians, has spoken of his "deep grief" and mourning. A News Limited newspaper has reported Marwoto Komar, who piloted the flight that crashed at Yogyakarta airport eight months ago, as saying... | Singapore Changi Airport on February 4, 2007. It is nearly identical to the one that crashed. Marwoto Komar, pilot of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400 which overshot the runway in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on March 7, killing 21, has spoken to the media for the first time about the accident. Five of the deceas... |
(07-03) 15:53 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- An air cargo company received a threat less than a week before one of its cargo jets caught fire at San Francisco International Airport, federal officials said today. ABX Air, a contractor for DHL, received a threat against an unspecified aircraft within a week before the Boeing 767 c... | DHL Aviation livery As part of an update by the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) into its investigation of a fire on a Boeing 767 cargo plane at San Francisco International Airport last week, it has been revealed the operator received a threat the week before. ABX Air, a contractor for DHL that... |
Partial List of Grammy Award Winners 02/13/2005 7:00 PM, AP The Associated Press Partial list of winners at Sunday's 47th Annual Grammy Awards: Engineered Album, Classical: "Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra," Jack Renner, engineer (Robert Spano). Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost. Classical Album: ... | The Dixie Chicks won the award album in the song of Not Ready To Make Nice. Finally overcame controversy to dominate the 2007 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, winning five statuettes including the two coveted awards for Record and Song of the Year (for "Not Ready To Make Nice"). The country/rock trio, led by Martie Magu... |
By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced on Friday he will resign, and President Barack Obama said he wanted someone with a sharp, independent mind for his first appointment to the nation's highest court. Souter, 69, who has been on the court since 1990, said in a brief l... | David SouterUnited States President Barack Obama will get the chance to make his first United States Supreme Court appointment as a number of unnamed sources close to Associate Justice David Souter announced the Justice's retirement from the body, to take place in June. NPR suggests that Souter was waiting to confirm t... |
« | Main | » GoogleNews Refinement Plan Could Oust Blogs Posted by James Joyner at 20:57 Google is applying for a patent on a revised version of its popular news aggregator that could take blogs out of the mix. Google Plan To Refine News Search Finds Early Critics (E-Commerce News) Google has filed a patent application... | ''Google News'' submitted patent applications both in the United States and world-wide in September 2003 for a system of ranking search returns. The patent protection filings seek to control ''Google's'' approach that filters headlines through a complicated algorithm, including the quality of the news organization. How... |
THE CANDIDATES THE CANDIDATES Since the country's presidential election on March 29 there has been no announcement on the outcome, and while President Robert Mugabe's ruling party says there must be a run-off, the opposition says its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, won outright. Mugabe NAME: Robert Gabriel Mugabe TITLE: Pre... | The second round of the Zimbabwean presidential elections between incumbent Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai has been set for June 27. The date was announced in a government-run gazette, saying: "It is hereby notified that the Zimbabwe electoral commission with the approval of the minister of justice made the follow... |
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A dozen tobacco manufacturers and retailers, from supermarkets to petrol station operators, have been fined a record £225m by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for unlawfully inflating the cost of cigarettes. The fine, the largest ever levied by the watchdog, comes after a seven-year investigation found that tobacco man... | Lambert & Butler, one of the popular brands that was subject to price fixing. Several tobacco manufacturers and retailers in the United Kingdom have been fined a total of £225 million for price fixing. The fines were imposed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) following an investigation lasting seven years. It is the ... |
WITH VIDEO Police continue to seek answers in Henry Ford campus murder-suicide The murder-suicide that left two students dead Friday at Henry Ford Community College triggered anxiety and fear as shocked students and staff were ordered to stay in classes and offices during a two-hour campus lockdown. Police found the bo... | Two people are dead at a Michigan, United States community college in what police are calling a murder-suicide on Friday, the ''Detroit Free Press'' reports. Dearborn corporation limits in Wayne County, Michigan. Dearborn is in red. The victims, a 28-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, were found in the Fine Arts Bui... |
Mar 25, 2006 7:28 pm US/Eastern (CBS4) HOPKINTON There was a school scare in Hopkinton, just as students were getting ready to head home for the weekend. Police chased a former student onto the roof after he broke into Hopkinton High School, armed with a bat and chain. Students were ordered to evacuate as police carefu... | Hopkinton, Massachusetts police yesterday arrested a former student of the Hopkinton High School who had entered the school and climbed the roof. Christopher Stevens, 19, a graduate of Hopkinton High School, entered the school around dismissal time, carrying a baseball bat and chain, smoking a cigarette. Stevens headed... |
NICOSIA (AFP) -- At least 25 inmates were shot dead by Syrian security forces during a riot in a jail for political prisoners in the mountains outside Damascus on Saturday, according to a human rights group. ""Islamist prisoners started a riot inside the prison this morning,"" the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights sa... | A riot in a prison located in the Syrian city of Damascus has resulted in 25 deaths, according to reports provided by human rights groups. Military police fired into the rioters, who were protesting against alleged violence by prison guards against prisoners. Prisoners have claimed that they have been routinely beaten... |
Subsequent to getting a home loan, picking an incredible house, and making an offer, you may expect the majority of the hard work in the home purchasing process is finished. In any case, pause—there’s one all the more huge thing that could decide if the home you’re wanting to purchase is a decent choice: the home inspe... | In Mellville, West Virginia, the remains of two miners have been found. The two miners had disappeared at the Alma coal mine when a conveyor belt caught fire. "We have found the two miners we were looking for for ''sic'' the past 40 hours," said Doug Conaway, director of the state Office of Miners' Health Training and ... |
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union approved the launch of a 2,000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo on Saturday on the eve of the breakaway province’s expected declaration of independence from Serbia. A Kosovo Albanian woman is seen behind an Albanian national flag in Kosovo, February 15, 2008. The terr... | Dutch diplomat Pieter Feith was appointed today in Brussels, Belgium as Special Representative for the European Union in Kosovo. Feith will be the highest ranking E.U. representative in Kosovo, and will remain in function until February 2009. He will be in close contact with E.U. Secretary-General Javier Solana and the... |
Human rights activists and charitable organizations are outraged by a new law in Hungary that essentially criminalizes homelessness. According to European media reports, a new regulation that was first proposed by Mate Kocsis, an MP from the ruling conservative Fidesz party, homelessness will be punishable by up to a $... | As of today, it is illegal to be in the European country of Hungary, as a new law prohibiting it comes into effect. Those who are found to be in breach of this law will initially be given a warning for sleeping out on the streets. Offenders may also face a fine of 600, which equates to 382 or 445, or a . Budapest, Hung... |
Pretoria: A South African court has sentenced eight former police officers to 15 years each for killing a Mozambican taxi driver by dragging him handcuffed behind a police truck and assaulting him in custody. The tormenting of Mido Macia, caught on video and broadcast around the world, further tarnished the reputation ... | A judge in Pretoria, South Africa yesterday sentenced eight police officers to fifteen years' imprisonment each for the 2013 murder of . Mozambican immigrant Macia was dragged behind a police van and beaten in what the judge called a "barbaric" attack. File photo depicting an officer on patrol in Cape Town. Judge Bert ... |
By Mariam Karouny and Fredrik Dahl BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq vowed on Saturday to press on with its own probe into the deaths of civilians in a U.S. raid on the town of Ishaqi, rejecting the U.S. military's exoneration of its forces. Adnan al-Kazimi, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said the government would al... | Flag of Iraq Adnan al-Kazimi, an advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said, "We have from more than one source that the killings were carried out under questionable circumstances. More than one child was killed. This report was not fair for the Iraqi people and the children who were killed". The U.S. mi... |
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism has commended MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting’s remarks about Muslim converts in Parliament on Wednesday. Its president Datuk A. Vaithilingam described Ong’s sentiments as that shared by right thinking Malaysia... | The Malaysian of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and issued a statement Friday praising comments made Wednesday by Malaysian politician on conversion to Islam. Malaysian Consultative Council president Datuk A. Vaithilingam said that Ong's views are shared by Malaysians from all religious faiths in the country. Kuala ... |
Some working men's clubs may be forced to close due to the ban Smoking will be outlawed in 124,000 pubs and clubs across England from next summer, after MPs voted overwhelmingly to ban lighting up in all enclosed public places. Tony Blair and 12 of his Cabinet colleagues were accused of a U-turn after abandoning Labour... | MPs at the British Parliament have voted by large majority of 200 to bring in legislation banning smoking in all pubs, clubs and workplaces in a landmark free vote. The ban is expected to come into force from summer 2007. The originally proposed fine of £200 was raised to £2500 for failing to stop people smoking in ban... |
Share this story! Bodies of dead Afghans being sent back * Case registered against Afghan national charging Rs 30,000 each to take victims to Iran * Afghan president saddened by deaths, warns against illegal immigration QUETTA: Pakistani and Afghan officials were on Sunday preparing to send home the bodies of 52 Afghan... | Quetta, Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. The bodies of 46 Afghan illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in a container truck Saturday near Quetta, Pakistan, returned home Tuesday. The Edhi Foundation placed the victim's bodies into coffins to transport them back to Chaman. Funeral prayers were said before vict... |
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