At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. Earlier, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said at least 24 people were killed in blasts in Shia areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions aft…
: “Demi is devoted to Ashton. She is so proud and supportive of him. The silence from her side is deafening. “Demi does everything she can to stay young and sexy, but when it comes down to it she is a 48-year-old woman. There is a whole generation of young girls who don’t care if a man is married. They just want to have a good time and hit pay dirt. Only time will tell if Sara Leal really did hit…
sia, where France is the former colonial power, but there were widespread demonstrations elsewhere: • A peaceful protest took place outside the US embassy in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur • Some 3,000 people marched in the southern Iraqi city of Basra • Thousands burned US and French flags in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka • Crowds rallied in Baalbek in southern Lebanon in a protest organize…
…’s in love with him. She told the paper: “Somebody needs to stand up for him, and not the little high-school girls who just think he’s cute.” The FreeJahar97 Twitter account was created on April 25 – 10 days after the double bombing. The first tweet reads: “any other beliebers out there who want to see Jahar freed and believe he is innocent? feel like i’m all alone here.. #freejahar .”…
l and he had “no indications this was anything other than an accidental fire”. Emergency services officials said ammonia may have caused the explosion. It has been reported the company had 54,000 lbs (20 tonnes) of anhydrous ammonia on site. Police earlier said the half the town had been evacuated, amid fears of possible further explosions or a leak of toxic gas – though at his p…
…attacks across Nigeria in its quest to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state. Boko Haram has admitted attacking several churches across the country on Christmas Day 2011, killing nearly 40 people at one church outside the capital, Abuja, alone. It has also claimed responsibility for a string of bomb blasts around Jos on Christmas Eve 2010 that killed at least 80 people. …
At least 48 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Coast Province, south-eastern Kenya, police say. The clashes in Tana River district, Coast Province, took place late on Tuesday between the Orma and Pokomo groups, the region’s police chief said. Most of the dead were women and children, many of whom were hacked to death with machetes, he said. The clash is the worst single incident s…
At least 47 people have been killed in an attack by pro-government militia in the embattled Syrian city of Homs, according to human rights activists. Women and children are said to among those who were reportedly tortured and killed on Sunday night in the neighborhood of Karm el-Zeytoun. The Syrian government acknowledged the deaths, but blamed “armed terrorists”. The attack happened…
crashed head-on into the Dodge Caravan, instantly killing all four people inside. Matthew Denton, who was alone in the car, died at a Casper hospital shortly after the crash. The van was going between 50 and 55 mph. There was no evidence Matthew Denton was targeting anyone inside the van, officials said. “I don’t think he had a clue who he was running into. It was dark. He picked the n…
…means “Western education is forbidden” – wants to establish Islamic law in Nigeria and has launched a series of deadly attacks across the country, including the capital, in the past 19 months. Last month the group warned journalists not to misrepresent their views. …
find the guards who had them,” Josua Garcia said. Lucy Marder, who heads the forensic services in Comayagua, said that reports indicated at least 272 people had been killed. She later said that 356 people on the prison roster were unaccounted for. “The majority could be dead, though others could have suffered burns, escaped or survived,” Lucy Marder said. The prison in Comayagua…
George Loader from Arizona has been accused of killing and chopping up a man he suspected of molesting his daughter. George Loader, 34, is alleged to have scattered the dismembered body parts in the desert after first trying to dispose of them by burning them. Police found the victim’s head and limbs in separate bags which had dumped on a dirt road in rural Kingman in Arizona. When police s…
At least 51 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by gunmen during the latest clashes in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state, according to regional governor Kuol Manyang. At least 22 others were injured after attackers raided and burned the village of Duk Padiet, governor Kuol Manyang added. All wounded people have been evacuated to Juba, the capital, he said. A series of att…
…d Wissam al-Hassan was among those who died. He was close to Saad Hariri, a leading critic of the government in neighboring Syria. Wissam al-Hassan led an investigation that implicated Damascus in the 2005 bombing that killed Saad Hariri’s father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He also recently organized the arrest of a former minister accused of planning a Syrian-sponsored bombing camp…
e than 20 people killed in bomb attack in Baghdad • 20 March: At least 45 people die in series of co-ordinated attacks including car bombs in Kerbala city that kill at least 13 • 23 February: At least 55 people killed and hundreds injured in wave of bombings and shootings across the country • 27 January: A suicide car bomb kills at least 32 and injures about 60 in predominantly Shia Muslim distric…
…End. The opening of Viva Forever! will coincide with that of The Bodyguard, a musical based on the 1992 Whitney Houston film that opens at the Adelphi in December. The Spice Girls topped the charts in 31 countries with their 1996 debut single Wannabe and went on to sell more than 75 million albums worldwide. The group created the 1990s mantra “Girl Power” and starred in their own featu…
…t missing from a trailer park in Fort Wayne Thursday night. The girl and her two sisters were staying with Michael Plumadore, 39, at his trailer while her mother recovered from the flu. Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Michael Plumadore was living, said he didn’t think it was odd that Aliahna Lemmon’s mother, Tarah Souders, had him watching the girls for an extended pe…
…ied, also died in the shooting. Christy Wilson was reportedly in court with Michelle Fournier on Tuesday to testify on her friend’s behalf during her custody case. Mother-of-two, Victoria Buzzo, 54, was killed just a few months after the death of her father. Seal Beach youth soccer team, Beach Futbol Club, sent out a message to its members announcing that Michelle Fast, who is a mother of on…
…ships, which carry Tomahawk missiles, do not have a specific mission. But they give commanders flexibility to respond to any mission ordered by the president. The destroyers have crews totaling about 300. There have been four destroyers in the Mediterranean for some time. These moves will increase that to five. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly…
NATO helicopter crashed in Wardak, Eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban insurgents who shot down a 38 elite troops Navy SEALs helicopter in Afghanistan were killed. U.S. General, John Allen said Wednesday that NATO international troops found out where militants were hiding and launched an air strike on the place. Allen, who is chief commander of allied forces in Afghanistan ISAF (Internation…
…Some reports say Yemeni troops were involved, others that it was an air strike, possibly a US drone attack. Said al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was released by the US from detention in Guantanamo Bay in 2007. Yemen has previously announced it had killed Said al-Shihri and his death this time has not been confirmed. The Yemeni army has been fighting Islamist militants in the south of the country for…
…in Brooklyn Earlier this month it was reported that Demi Moore was left “devastated” that her daughters, whom she had during her second marriage to Bruce Willis, had cut contact with her. Demi Moore, 49, has unarguably had a very difficult year, following her split from Ashton Kutcher after claims of his infidelity and a stint in rehab for “eating disorder and addiction issues”. The actress was s…
At least 11 construction workers have died after fire swept through a tent at a building site in Istanbul, Turkey. The incident happened in the district of Esenyurt at the construction site of a shopping centre. TV footage showed fire crews, working under floodlights in the snow, recovering the bodies of the workers from the ruins of the tent. Esenyurt Mayor Necmi Kadioglu said the suspected caus…
…ding any alone time with their grandfather. The order was issued during the week of the scandal, but that didn’t stop Matt Sandusky from bringing his daughters, aged 9 and 7 years old, and their 5 year old son from visiting the alleged pedophile. Court records show that Matt Sandusky took the three children to visit their grandparents on November 5, the day that the charges were announced. I…
Mathieu M., a French teenager is accused for killing of 13-year-old girl, Agnes Marin, from his boarding school, after he raped her. Mathieu M., 17, had spent four months in jail for raping another minor, in southern France. The teenager had been under judicial supervision. The school said it had not been fully aware of his past. Last Friday, the body of Agnes Marin was found in a forest close to…
EU bans refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tablesStarting with 2014, the European Commission will ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables. From 1 January 2014, restaurants may…
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Embryonic stem cells: Milestone in medical human cloningUS scientists announce that human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem…
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