Pain & Gain: real-life nightmare stranger than fiction
'When I saw it I thought, who is this person?': Marc Schiller's shocking kidnapping experience has been recounted in Pain & Gain, although he was not consulted and his name has been changed. On...
View ArticleFort Hood killer Major Nidal Hasan praised, marked for promotion before...
Nidal Malik Hasan listens as military prosecutor Colonel Steve Henricks addresses the court. Photo: AP Houston: Months before the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, the Army psychiatrist convicted...
View ArticleUNESCO Director-General deplores deaths of three Egyptian journalists (UN -...
(Source: UN - United Nations) UNESCO Director-General deplores deaths of three Egyptian journalists UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today denounced the deaths of reporter Ahmed Abdel Gawad and...
View ArticleDirector-General deplores murder of Pakistani journalist Haji Abdul Razzak...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General deplores murder of Pakistani journalist Haji Abdul Razzak The Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today denounced the murder of Pakistani...
View ArticleDirector-General deplores murder of Guatemalan journalist Carlos Alberto...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General deplores murder of Guatemalan journalist Carlos Alberto Orellana Chávez The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today denounced the murder of...
View ArticleGlobal survey on violence against female journalists launched (UN - United...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Global survey on violence against female journalists launched The International News Safety Institute (INSI) has launched a global survey on violence against women...
View ArticleUS Secretary of State John Kerry warns Syria after 'obscene' strike
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View ArticleChris Lane alleged killers influenced by video games, drugs and gangs: police
Charged: Chancey Luna, Michael Jones and James Edwards. Los Angeles: The role of violent video games, drugs and potential links to gangs in a neighbouring city are being probed by Oklahoma detectives...
View ArticleCapacity to safeguard ancient documentary heritage increased in Democratic...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Capacity to safeguard ancient documentary heritage increased in Democratic People's Republic of Korea A workshop, entitled "Memory of the World - Protecting Ancient...
View Article'Why is it dark?’ asks blinded Chinese boy
A boy lies on his hospital bed with his eyes covered with bandages in Taiyuan in north China's Shanxi province. Photo: AFP A six-year-old Chinese boy who had his eyes gouged out does not know he has...
View ArticleThere's something fishy about being a leader when things go swimmingly
Leadership is an innate quality and leaders ''are born, not made'', says a new study … of fish. The Cambridge University study of stickleback fish - a group of foraging species known to have bold and...
View Article“Stop the destruction!” urges UNESCO Director-General (UN - United Nations)
(Source: UN - United Nations) 29.08.2013 "Stop the destruction!" urges UNESCO Director-General Experts meet to coordinate action for safeguarding Syria's cultural heritage The Director-General of...
View ArticleRolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a...
Charged: Rolf Harris. Rolf Harris has been charged with 13 sex offences, British prosecutors say. In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Australian time, the Crown Prosecution Service said it had...
View ArticleBefore It's Gone: Visit the Taj Mahal
Many travelers have India as a location on their travel bucket list, in part due to the Taj Mahal- one of the most impressive structures in the world. The dream of walking through the mausoleum's...
View ArticleS. Africa government denies Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital
Nelson Mandela. Photo: Getty Images Nelson Mandela remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition, the office of South Africa’s president says. The statement from President Jacob Zuma’s...
View ArticleObama turns to congress for military action against Syria
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View ArticleStork arrested in Egypt on suspicion of spying
A migrating stork was held in a police station after an Egyptian found a tracking device on it and thought it was a spy. Photo: AP Cairo: In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have...
View ArticleSarin: how a single drop of Nazi nerve gas can kill
A boy breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus suburb of Saqba after an attack the US now says involved the nerve agent sarin. Photo: Reuters Sarin, the deadly nerve gas which the US says was...
View ArticleDirector-General urges investigation into the murder of Indian journalist...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General urges investigation into the murder of Indian journalist Rakesh Sharma The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova today deplored the killing of...
View ArticleFrost, TV legend and friend to the famous
It would be almost impossible to exaggerate David Frost's part in the history of British television. He was made for it, and it for him. It was as if he felt that he was not really alive unless he was...
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