Deadly shooting at Seattle homeless shelter
Two people have been killed and three injured in a shooting at a homeless shelter south of downtown Seattle. The Seattle Police Department responded the shooting on Tuesday night local...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda group releases video of hostage Swiss nun, Beatrice Stockly: monitor
#ICC #Mali: AQIM's demands to release new hostage include release of #AlFaqi #AlMahdi from detention in The Hague - https://t.co/CuahInwYVd— Marion Chahuneau (@Ma_Chah) January 27, 2016 Dakar: Al-Qaeda...
View ArticleNigerian crime gangs 'use UK airports' to traffick women: BBC
London: British airports such as Gatwick are increasingly used as entry points to the European Union by Nigerian trafficking gangs seeking alternatives to perilous Mediterranean Sea crossings, Spanish...
View ArticleFemale suicide bombers strike Chibok market in north Nigeria
Maiduguri, Nigeria: At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram Islamists...
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Tourists' marked that the Ethiopian Epiphany or Timket festivity shall be acquainted as heritage in all aspects of its celebration. Dawn Johns from England said that the Timket celebration collects a...
View ArticleOregon occupier LaVoy Finicum said he’d rather die than go to jail – and that...
Washington: With his shaven head and soft voice, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum resembled a monk – albeit a monk wearing a Stetson and packing a Colt .45 pistol on his hip. And like a monk, Finicum waxed...
View ArticleFury as David Cameron calls Calais refugees 'a bunch of migrants'
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has been condemned over his response to the refugee crisis in Europe after describing people in a camp in Calais as a "bunch of migrants". The British...
View Article'They just loved her': heroic Indiana school principal dies saving children...
Washington: When the school bus lurched forward, Susan Jordan followed her instincts. They were the same instincts that had guided her for 22 years as the principal of Indianapolis's Amy Beverland...
View ArticleWoman who claimed $67 million winning lottery ticket went through the wash...
It could have been her. But it's not. A German woman who claimed she had won a £33 million ($67 million) lottery jackpot, but by accident put the ticket through the wash, is understood to have been...
View ArticleGCHQ Christmas quiz: 30,000 entries, not one perfect answer
London: It cannot be solved with a search engine. Specially written algorithms have failed to crack it. Even geeks pooling their considerable resources in internet chat rooms have fallen short. We have...
View ArticleSpate of random slashing puts New Yorkers on edge
A 71-year-old grandmother sitting by herself on a subway car in Lower Manhattan. A 30-year-old man walking down a street in the East Village, listening to music and enjoying a leisurely Saturday...
View ArticleEarthquake rattles Christchurch
Wellington: A magnitude 4.1 earthquake near Christchurch was felt across New Zealand, sending hearts racing and prompting people to contact loved ones. The quake struck at 12.24pm local time on...
View ArticleIs this the world's most expensive DIY wallpaper? Aristocrat used pages from...
When Lady Isabella Hertford sought to brighten up her 1820s dining room, cutting colourful birds out of a handy book must have felt like an inspired idea. The decision could in fact have cost £7.3...
View ArticleRussians destroy new British-funded bakery for refugees
Gaziantep, Turkey: Russian warplanes have hit a bakery funded by the British government in northern Syria a few hours before it was due to start providing food for 18,000 people. Hundreds of civilians...
View ArticleFrench justice minister quits over terror laws' citizenship-stripping proposal
Paris: French justice minister Christiane Taubira, one of the most outspoken and progressive voices in the government, has resigned after a clash over a proposal to strip the citizenship of French-born...
View ArticleThe long, strange history of the Donald Trump-Megyn Kelly feud
Here's the conundrum of Donald Trump: Nothing he does should surprise us, but nothing he doesn't do should surprise us, either. By that, I mean that for all the wacky things he's actually done in this...
View ArticleIndonesia to import cattle from other countries to reduce reliance on Australia
Jakarta: Indonesia could begin importing cattle from countries that have foot and mouth disease as part of a new economic stimulus package aimed at lowering beef prices and reducing its reliance on...
View ArticleSweden may send back up to 80,000 asylum seekers after pleas rejected
Stockholm: Sweden's government may reject almost half the people who sought asylum within its borders last year as the government looks into the feasibility of sending them back. As many as 80,000 of...
View ArticleUNESCO World Heritage Sites under threat
LUANG PRABANG: A number of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites face major challenges, including the following: MACHU PICCHU, PERU This magnificent "lost city of the Incas" is cited by UNESCO as beset by...
View ArticleFormer Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo pleads not guilty to war crimes
The Hague: Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pleaded not guilty to charges of planning post-election violence that left 3000 dead, as his war crimes trial opened at the International Criminal...
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