Tamir Rice shooting: Cleveland police to review shooting of 12-year-old with...
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland police will review from start to finish the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice to determine if the two officers involved or others should face disciplinary action over...
View ArticleBeheadings send a chill through Afghanistan
Kabul: At a ceremony inaugurating the new "Afghan Pentagon" on Monday, President Ashraf Ghani stressed the importance of building a modern military, subservient to the nation's constitution and laws...
View ArticlePersonal information of more than 190m American voters appears online
Information about 191 million US registered voters was left exposed on the internet, raising new questions about the security chops of political campaigns who increasingly hold large caches of data...
View Article'Catch, catch catch': Chinese President Xi Jinping's voice debuts in official...
Sydney: The Chinese government is attempting to shake off the straitjacket of convoluted Communist Party speak, releasing a rap video sampling its President, Xi Jinping. The video and its cartoon...
View ArticleMan allegedly kept imprisoned in horrific conditions by sibling who lived off...
Emaciated, naked, soiled and imprisoned, a 59-year-old man has been freed from a tiny loft, where his siblings allegedly held him captive while they lived off his pension. For years the man identified...
View ArticleE-cigarettes no safer than smoking tobacco and may cause cancer, scientists find
London: Using e-cigarettes is no safer than smoking tobacco with nicotine, scientists warned after finding the vapour damages DNA and could cause cancer. Researchers at the University of California...
View ArticleTweeting terror couple in UK get life sentences
London: A couple who plotted a deadly terror attack in London to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the July 7 bombings of 2005 have each been given life sentences. Mr Justice...
View ArticleAmerican woman mistakenly kills her daughter
St Cloud: Police in Florida say a mother mistook her daughter for an intruder and shot her dead. Sergeant Denise Roberts, of the St Cloud police, said the mother was asleep when she heard someone enter...
View Article'Happy New Year, without migrants': wishes from Budapest
Budapest: The little fir tree was chosen and tied up, ready to be carried home and decorated for Christmas Eve. "Merry Christmas," said the market trader, "and a Happy New Year, without migrants." "I...
View ArticleIran fires rockets in Strait of Hormuz: "highly provocative" says US
London: An Iranian naval vessel fired several rockets close to a US aircraft carrier and destroyer and a French frigate in the Strait of Hormuz, the US Navy has confirmed, calling the action "highly...
View ArticleMuslims tweet: they have better things to do than join Islamic State
New York: A plea by the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group for Muslims to fight on its behalf against "disbelievers" prompted many to respond online with defiance and sarcasm. The audio...
View ArticleDonald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of 'women abuse'
New York: For years, President Bill Clinton was the best friend Donald Trump always hoped to have. When scandal engulfed Clinton's White House, Trump leapt to the president's defence. "He's probably...
View Article'Flight from hell': 21 Air Canada passengers in hospital after severe...
More than 20 passengers have been taken to hospital after severe turbulence forced an Air Canada flight to divert to Calgary. Called the "flight from hell" by one shaken passenger, Flight AC088 from...
View ArticleIndia seeks legendary river as water crisis worsens
Delhi: Gagandeep Singh stands at the edge of a trench cutting through a sugarcane field in rural India. He looks down at a dozen or so men toiling in the mud in plastic thongs and bellows: "Dig!"...
View ArticleChina's advance into Central Asia ruffles Russian feathers
Shymkent, Kazakhstan: Slowly but surely, a four-lane highway is beginning to take shape on the sparsely populated Central Asian steppe. Soviet-era cars, trucks and aging long-distance buses weave past...
View ArticleTrump's effect on Muslim migrant debate reverberates in US heartland
Grand Forks, North Dakota: After the fire, the patrons of Juba Coffee and Restaurant gathered behind yellow police tape and mourned the charred remains of a place they called their own. Dressed in...
View ArticleMan falls to his death after trying to climb 52-storey New York hotel
New York: A 24-year-old man slipped and fell to his death as he and a friend tried to scale a New York hotel using the building's scaffolding, the police said. The...
View ArticleArrests and security fears cast a shadow over New Year's Eve in Europe
Paris: Shaken by a year of militant attacks, Europeans will ring in 2016 in subdued fashion, with soldiers on the streets of Paris, a heightened police presence at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and silence...
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