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Writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62, after a long battle with cancer
Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...
One World Trade Center: the tallest building in Manhattan reached its 90th floor
When will be completed, One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of incredible poignancy for New York City. One...
Scamp, a terrier-Shih Tzu puppy hit by a car and believed dead, came back to life overnight
Scamp, an eight-month-old terrier-Shih Tzu puppy, had been hit by a car and he was apparently so badly injured that he had died on...
Flag ceremony in Baghdad brings US operations in Iraq to a formal end
The American flag has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operations in Iraq to a formal end. Leon Panetta, the...
Jacques Chirac found guilty of corruption and received 2 years suspended prison sentence
The former French President Jacques Chirac has been given by a court a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public...
US Air Force soldiers “play dead” in an open casket
The United States Air Force has launched an internal investigation after a disturbing image of 15 soldiers posing with one of them chained up...
Steven Phillips, a wrongfully convicted man who spent 25 years in jail, faces losing $4M compensation to his ex-wife
Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, faces losing his $4 million compensation to...
Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart spoke publicly for the first time about her ordeal
Elizabeth Smart, a 24-year-old woman from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was snatched from her bedroom almost 10 years ago, revealed for the first...
Liege gunman, Nordine Amrani, had a haul of guns and a cannabis shed inside his home
Belgian police revealed that a real arsenal was uncovered during a raid of Liege killer Nordine Amrani's home during October 2007, which includes two rocket...
Bikini Blonde vs Water Sphere
In a video posted on You Tube a bikini blonde is captured zipped up in a water sphere ready to walk onto the sea. The...
Google reveals 2011 top 10 searches in UK
Google reveals its annual zeitgeist - the people, places and things that are clicking the most with UK internet users in 2011. Top of the...
Eve Carson’s trial: the student asked her attackers to pray with her before she was murdered
A startling court testimony during the trial of Eve Carson, the University of North Carolina student president brutally murdered by two thugs in 2008,...
India: at least 48 people died and 100 hospitalized after consuming toxic alcohol
Indian police say at least 48 people have died after consuming toxic alcohol in country's West Bengal state. Several residents of the Magrahat, Usthi and...
Max Findlay identified as the owner of Labrador Fenton, the deer chaser in Richmond Park
Max Findlay has been unmasked as being the dog walker who became an internet sensation when he was filmed running after his black Labrador...
News anchor drunk on air? Annie Stensrud, KEYC-TV news reader, claimed she was sick, not drunk
Annie Stensrud, a Minnesota news reader who faced allegations of being drunk while on air last week, has claimed she was sick and not...
Florida: cheating Jody Mary Ryan filed fake rape claim against her lover forced by her angry husband
Jody Mary Ryan from Fort Myers, Florida, hoped to cover her tracks and appease her angry husband by telling police her lover - her...
California: teacher Nadia Christine Diaz asks forgiveness after she had sex with 15-year-old student
Nadia Christine Diaz, a substitute teacher in Fresno, California, who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old pupil, begged God's forgiveness after her “terrible mistake”. Nadia...
Avery Blandin stabbed to death his wife at Walmart store in Greenville County
Avery L. Blandin from South Carolina has been charged with murder of his wife, who was fatally stabbed inside a Greenville County Walmart this...
Couple kicked-off from a train for having sex, but they continued on the platform at Toronto subway
A couple was kicked-off from a train for having sex at Toronto subway, but, unperturbed, they got off and continued the deed on the...
Liege explosion UPDATE: death toll rose to 6 and 122 are wounded
The death toll from yesterday's grenade attack at a Christmas market in Liege, Belgium, rose to six, including the killer himself. According to Belgian police,...
US National Transportation Board wants to ban the use of all mobile device while driving (including hands-free)
American transportation safety regulators want to ban the use of mobile devices while driving, going so far as to say they should never be...
Long Island: police found human remains believed to be of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert
Police investigators on New York's Long Island announced today they believe they have discovered the skeletal remains of New Jersey prostitute Shannan Gilbert, who...
Belgium: 4 people died and 75 were injured after a grenade attack at a Christmas market in Liege
Four people have been killed and at least 75 were injured during a grenade attack in a Christmas shopping area in Liege, Belgium. The shoppers,...
Police launched murder probe after body of Karen Swift, who vanished on Halloween night, was found
Police in Dyer County, Tennessee, have launched a murder investigation after the body of mother-of-four Karen Swift, who vanished after Halloween party, was found. Karen...
Four people arrested for operating swingers’ club in Tampa Bay
Four people were arrested in Tampa Bay, Florida, after police discovered Steven and Cynthia Bowers, a middle-aged Florida couple, were holding a swingers' club...
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