Batman was pulled over earlier this week after Montgomery police saw he had no tags on his black Lamborghini. Lenny B. Robinson, the man dressed as Batman, was heading to a local children’s hospital, according to Montgomery County Captain Paul Starks. According to Capt. Paul Starks, a man dressed as Batman was pulled over on Interstate 29 in Montgomery, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. “An of…
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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…
US begin to mourn the 12 people killed by a gunman at a showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and a candlelit vigil has been held in Aurora, Colorado. US President Barack Obama ordered flags flown at half mast. A man in a gas mask and body armour threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd, killing 12 and injuring 58. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was ar…
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…
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…
…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…
At least 54 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of car bomb attacks in Iraqi cities Baghdad, Basra and Samarra, officials say. Baghdad was worst hit, with nine explosions at bus stations and markets in the mainly Shia Muslim districts. Two bombs went off earlier in the day in the southern city of Basra, and a blast in Samarra killed three people. The attacks are part of th…
James Holmes, the suspect gunman at Aurora cinema, has been formally charged with 142 criminal counts in one of America’s worst mass shootings. James Holmes, 24, faces 24 counts of murder, two for each of the 12 people killed, and 116 counts of attempted murder, two each for the 58 injured. For each person killed he faces a count of murder with deliberation and one of murder with extreme in…
…Wana area. Reports say he was also seen as an enemy of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and praised by Pakistan for expelling Uzbek and other foreign fighters from Pakistan in 2007. His death could be a contentious issue between Washington and Islamabad, they add, because the Pakistani military views commanders like him as key to keeping the peace internally. For years, he…
de guidance to the Pakistan-based operation. Analysts have said that he was in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. He was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Pakistan’s frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and it is very difficult to verify…
Aurora cinema massacre may have been inspired by a Batman comic book strip, it emerged on Friday. The bloodbath is a chilling copycat of a 1986 Batman comic strip which features a deranged gunman opening fire in a cinema. In the second issue of The Dark Knight Returns, written by Frank Miller – the creative mind behind Sin City and 300 – gunman Arnold Crimp opens fire in a pornographi…
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…sh school in the French city of Toulouse The gunman is reported to have initially used a 9 mm gun, but when it jammed, he switched to a .45 calibre weapon. A teacher at the school, believed to be aged 30, and his two children, aged three and six, are reported to have been killed. The third child killed was aged between 8 and 10 years old and belonged to another teacher at the school, French media…
About 150 people have been killed during the co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings, passport offices and immigration centres on the city, which is now under a 24-hour curfew. Boko Haram milita…
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At least 54 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a packed mosque in Afghanistan as people celebrated a major Shi’ite festival in Kabul. Bodies lie strewn on the ground after the powerful bomb killed the people at a shrine by the river in Kabul’s old city. People rush to the scene to help those injured in the blast, people who moments earlier had been praying and chanting w…
At least 21 suspected militants have been killed in two separate attacks of an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan, according to Pakistani security officials. The missiles struck targets in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Pakistan has previously complained that such attacks violate its sovereignty. Last month, President Barack Obama defended the use of dro…
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…
At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at Batman film The Dark Knight Rises premiere in Denver, Colorado, police say. About 50 people have been injured in the incident, police say. Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire at the cinema complex in Aurora, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. There are reports the gunman released a smoke bomb during the incident….
s in Unity state to launch attacks across the border. Both countries accuse each other of backing rebels operating in their territory. Sudan’s foreign ministry spokesman Al-Obeid Meruh said that 350 members of a Darfur-based rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) had crossed into South Sudan on Wednesday, AFP reports. He said the international community should put pressure on S…
More than 430 people have been killed and many more missing in recent flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines, officials say. Many of the victims were asleep when it struck Mindanao island, hitting the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. Tens of thousands of people have fled to higher ground, the authorities say. Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster rescue agen…
Bart Heller, a jilted boyfriend from Fort Wayne, Indiana, posted on Facebook a text that led police to a gruesome murder scene, where he killed two 19-year-olds before committing suicide. Police found the bodies after a getting a tip from thousands of miles away. Bart Heller, 43, posted at 2:26 pm Saturday: “someone call 911. three dead bodies at 3229 lima road fort wayne indiana. I’ve kill…
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.” Dead animals have been buried on Terry Thompson's farm As the hunt dragged on outside of Zanesville, population 25,000, schools closed in the mostly rural area of farms and widely spaced homes 55 miles east of Columbus. Parents were warned to keep children and pets indoors. Flashing signs along highways told motorists, “Caution exotic animals” and “Stay in vehicle”. Sheriff’s deputies were…
e killed in two separate crashes on an icy road in Philadelphia, while falling snow killed an 84-year-old man in Temple, Pennsylvania. Traffic accidents killed one person in Colchester, Connecticut, a 54-year-old New York woman, and a person in New Jersey. In Springfield, Massachusetts, a man died when he touched a protective rail surrounding downed power lines. Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Mall…
e vigorously condemn this odious act,” Alain Juppe said in a statement. The Syrian authorities have severely restricted access to foreign journalists since the unrest began last March. More than 5,000 people have been killed, the UN says. The government says 2,000 security personnel have died combating “armed gangs and terrorists”. Observers arrived in Syria in December to monito…
Two people, including a senior Palestinian militant leader, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. The Israeli military later confirmed a second air strike killed two more people it says were pre…
