…ion. Ghazala Javed and her father were killed when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them late on Monday Singers and dancers were particularly targeted by insurgents when they overran the area in 2007. Ghazala Javed at one point was also forced to stop singing because of threats. The singer, who was in her twenties, later married a businessman but they are thought to have divorced. Correspond…
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…rn at the home, and it is not clear whether a 6-year-old girl who was found alive there on Monday is among the number cited by sources. The girl was found after her mother, kidnap victim Amanda Berry, 26, climbed through a screen door on Monday afternoon while her alleged captor was out and fled to a neighbor’s home to call 911. When police arrived minutes later, they found Gina DeJesus, 23,…
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How Michael Jackson’s family preyed on his wealth and took it by the vanload after his death. In the late summer of 2001, Michael Jackson’s family were after him again. It was two days before his scheduled departure for New York, where his 30th Anniversary concerts were to be staged at Madison Square Garden. Performers would include Destiny’s Child, Ray Charles and Whitney Houston, and frie…
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Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping, two brothers from Beijing, have carved out an unusual career – making musical instruments from carrots, potatoes and other vegetables. The Chinese brothers grew up surrounded by vegetables on a farm in central China with a music teacher father. The idea of playing music with vegetables came to Nan Weidong, 43, and Nan Weiping, 41, only two years ago, but it has…
…f the Watertown street, in the early hours of Friday, show the Tsarnaev brothers sheltering behind a vehicle and clearly taking aim at police officers. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan, 26, are seen running to a car for more supplies before hauling out a pressure cooker bomb they then detonated, filling the street with smoke. The photographs, taken on the eyewitness’ phone fro…
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…positive relations with Muslims in the region in his brief comments at the end of the ceremony. Standing on a platform overlooking the procession route, Pope Francis recalled Pope Benedict XVI’s 2012 visit to Lebanon when “we saw the beauty and the strong bond of communion joining Christians together in that land and the friendship of our Muslim brothers and sisters and so many others….
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Robin Gibb was the gaunt Bee Gee, the one with the tombstone teeth and extraordinary voice, a high, plaintive tenor. But Robin Gibb’s voice and song-writing abilities, allied with the musical talents of his twin Maurice and older brother Barry, were to sell more than 220 million Bee Gees records in a career that was to last for nearly half a century. As a song-writing partnership, the Gibb…
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The Boston bombing suspects have been identified as brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who are originally from a Russian region near Chechnya and lived in the US for at least one year, sources told the Associated Press. The surviving Boston bomber, named Suspect 2 by police, who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap, has been identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, aged 19. Dzhokhar A….
…ged. But today’s announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting the couple’s first child – third in line to the throne – has come after the deal was agreed. In October 2011, David Cameron announced that the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state had agreed to give female royals the same rights of succession as their brothers. “Put simply, if the…
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…y causing his death. Offering the first detailed account of the firefight, Police Chief Edward Deveau, of Watertown, Massachusetts, where the drama had unfolded early Friday morning, has revealed that 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked towards officers firing a gun before he ran out of ammunition and was tackled to the ground. “He all of a sudden comes out from under cover and just starts walkin…
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“Mounting evidence” gathered by investigators suggest Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could have been involved in a grisly unsolved triple murder in 2011, it has emerged on Friday. Officials told ABC News that forensic evidence could tie Boston bomber brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the killings of Brendan Mess, Raphael Teken and Erik Weissman, who were found with their throats slit and…
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Ariel Castro’s brothers, Onil and Pedro, spoke of how they had no idea why they were being arrested for keeping three girls in captivity in Cleveland for nearly a decade. Onil and Pedro Castro also revealed that they saw Jocelyn, the daughter that Ariel fathered with Amanda Berry during her captivity, saying that on two different occasions they saw Ariel bring the young girl to fast food restaura…
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…ast two of the women held captive in Ariel Castro’s house in Cleveland for about a decade were raped by their captors Meanwhile, hundreds of people gathered around the DeJesus family home, cheering as 23-year-old Gina DeJesus arrived. Gina DeJesus, wearing a bright yellow hooded shirt, was escorted into her home by a woman with her arm around her. In a news conference outside the house, members of…
New pictures from the Boston Marathon taken in the moments after the deadly blasts that left three dead and nearly 180 injured, show that the explosives packed inside rigged pressure cookers were planted next to a Russian flag that hung among other banners along the street. It has been revealed that the prime suspects in the bombings are Chechen brothers, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his 19-…
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edy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot’s Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev. “Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.” The 26-year-old Chechen – who was shot dead by cops last night – was regularly seen at Katherine Russell’s family home in Rhode Island. Their home was raided by the FBI and cops before dawn this mo…
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…y at the age of 62 after contracting pneumonia while battling against cancer of the colon and subsequently of the liver. His wife Dwina, 59, daughter Melissa, 37, and sons Spencer, 40, and Robin-John, 29, were with him. The sad irony of the timing of Robin Gibb’s death will not have been lost on his family. Over the past year he had worked feverishly to complete his first classical work, the…
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Danny, aka Jiang Lantan, is a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur whose Mercedes was carjacked by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev last Thursday evening. The incident occurred at almost 11p.m. when the man, who has asked to only be identified by his American nickname Danny, but now known by Chinese bloggers as Jiang Lantan, had just pulled his car to the curb on Brighton Avenue…
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The FBI is now focusing on Katherine Russell Tsarnaev after federal officials investigating the Boston bombings have discovered radical Islamist materials on a computer belonging to the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, 24, has repeatedly claimed through her attorney that she knew nothing about the deadly April 15 bombings allegedly set off by her late husband, Tamerlan Tsar…
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idn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night’s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn’t establish that he had ties to…
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or figures in the history of British music”. The Gibb brothers were born in the Isle of Man but grew up in Manchester, later moving to Australia. The Bee Gees notched up album sales of more than 200 million worldwide since their first hits in the 1960s. “Everyone should be aware that the Bee Gees are second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting unit in British…
Richard Garritson, a San Diego County runner described the terrifying moment he was savaged by a pack of pit bulls as he jogged on a trail. Richard Garritson, 21, and his 20-year-old brother, John, were attacked by the dogs about a mile from their home. The man said he was running ahead of his sisters, Meagan Garritson, 18, and Shelby Garritson, 15, and his nine-year-old niece, when at least six…
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…enjoy the small things”, in life. But she met Tamerlan Tsarneav, a disenfranchised man who came to America from his troubled homeland of Chechnya who rapidly had her in his thrall. By the time she was 21, Katherine Russell had married him and borne his child, Zahara, now 3. She had converted to Islam, hidden her tumble of chestnut hair beneath the hijab and undergone a change so profound that toda…
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Sources close to the FBI investigation claim that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not act alone and were part of a 12-man terror sleeper cell. According to a source, the FBI was working furiously to track down the cell amid concerns that further attacks on American soil are being planned and carried out. On Saturday afternoon, two 19-year-old men from Kazakhstan named by neighbors by their fir…
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…or work on the last day she saw him alive. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev learned her husband Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a suspect by seeing it on TV, Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia, are accused of planting two explosives near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, killing three and injurin…
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…ry close by. He has to jam it in reverse and try to get himself a little distance.” Five others officers arrived on the scene in the middle of an intense shootout during which Edward Deveau says over 200 rounds were fired in 5-10 minutes. The chief said that one of the suspected bombers lobbed an explosive at the officers, which later turned out to be a pressure cooker bomb like the ones used in…
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