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 Mexican shootout kills dozens of people
Nigeria News.Net
25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.  Stephen Hawking says the universe created itself
Nigeria News.Net
A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.  Israeli girl hurt in car stoning
Nigeria News.Net
A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the window. Disney, Time Warner Cable Strike New Deal
RTT News
News ) have reached a new long-term expanded programming deal that will keep Disney's broadcast and cable channels on Time Warner Cable, ending several weeks of tense negotiations. The deal ensures th... Iran's Satellite TV Goes Green
RadioFreeEurope
Iran's opposition Green Movement hasofficially launched a new satellite TV channel, RASA TV (Resan-e Sabz-e Iran orIran's Green Media), RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.Ebrahim Nabavi, one of the channel'... Pre-k kin are left hanging
New York Post
Some 2,000 anxious parents of 4-year-olds still don’t know what public school to take their children to on Wednesday because the city failed to notify them on time. Letters offering them pre-kin... Fight night – at the Open!
New York Post
You sure as #%&* don’t see this at Wimbledon! Rowdy US Open tennis hooligans — tennis hooligans? — got into a brawl in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium during a match betwee... Letterman extort guy out of jail
New York Post
The disgraced CBS News producer who shook down David Letterman for $2 million by threatening to expose the TV funnyman's adulterous trysts with staffers walked free yesterday after four months in the ... Ladies' night a big bar boost
New York Post
The courts upheld ladies' night and New Yorkers say the feeling's right. Charging female patrons less is a good idea, say bartenders and customers. "The [appellate court] judges made a good decision,"... Cancel order for Cipriani auction
New York Post
Chew on that, Capital One. The Cipriani restaurant empire -- currently in a nasty legal battle with its creditor, Capital One Bank -- was granted an injunction yesterday that halted a public auction o... Arrest at Miami airport over suspicious package
Channel News Asia
MIAMI : Police arrested a passenger after screeners found suspicious luggage at Miami International Airport, prompting evacuations at four of six concourses and diverting flights, federal officials sa... Tajik police office hit by suicide blast
New Zealand Herald
A suicide car bomb blast on Friday tore through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city, injuring 25 people, local officials said. Tajikistan's Deputy Interior Minister Sharif Nazarov told... PNG crash victims farewelled
New Zealand Herald
Residents of Papua New Guinea's remote Misima Island today farewelled the four victims of Tuesday's plane crash who included a New Zealander and three Australians. The bodies were flown from the isla... Womaniser jailed for wife's murder
New Zealand Herald
SYDNEY - Gold-digging womaniser Des Campbell didn't show a flicker of emotion as he was jailed for at least 24 years for pushing his besotted bride off a cliff. But the victim's brother, Kevin Neande... Crowds attack home of Iranian opposition leader
The Independent
Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to ... 25 drug suspects die in shootout
CNN
Mexico City (CNN) -- A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday. Cleric wants Dutch politician beheaded
C News
AMSTERDAM - A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. Wilders' Freedom Party scored the biggest ga... Gaza militants vow Israel attacks
BBC
Militants in Gaza have vowed to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since 2008. A Hamas spokesman said that 13 groups had joined f... Farah out of Commonwealth Games
BBC
Double European champion Mo Farah has announced his withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games because of fatigue.The 27-year-old, who won gold for Great Britain in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the European ... Poll preamble 'insult' to voters
BBC
The proposed explanatory preamble on the ballot paper for the referendum on further Welsh powers would be an insult to voters, the presiding officer says. Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas welcomed an Electora... Russia suffers new fire outbreak
BBC
At least four people have died in a new outbreak of wildfires in Russia. In the south of the country fire swept through villages and towns, destroying hundreds of homes and other buildings. Last mon... Deadly blast hits Pakistan rally
BBC
At least five people have died in a blast at a rally in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, police say. More than 20 people were injured in the explosion, which took place in the Meezan Chowk... Saunders writing Spice Girls show
BBC
Jennifer Saunders is writing the story for the Spice Girls musical Viva Forever, it has been revealed. Saunders, 52, said she was "thrilled and terrified" but that the project had been &quo... Hogan given leave to return to US
BBC
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has reached an agreement with tax authorities in Australia allowing him to return to his home in the US. The 70-year-old had previously been barred from leaving Austr... Harman joins Holden in Shrek show
BBC
Amanda Holden will be joined by ex-EastEnders star Nigel Harman and Four Lions actor Nigel Lindsay in the West End production of Shrek the Musical. Lindsay, whose stage credits include Pinter's ... Florence Cameron's Downing St debut
BBC
David and Samantha Cameron have introduced their new daughter, Florence, on the steps of 10 Downing Street. Florence Rose Endellion was born in the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on 24 August after... Usain Bolt: The man behind the image
BBC
Everyone wants a piece of the fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt. After signing the largest sponsorship deal in the history of athletics, he's now promoting his autobiography. The BBC's Leon Mann c... Pakistan Cricketers Quizzed By Scotland Yard
Sky News
Mohammad Amir are understood to be answering questions at a police station in Kilburn, north London. The trio were suspended and charged with "various" anti-corruption offences by cricket's governing... South Africa Murder Raises Racial Tensions
Sky News
The killing is threatening to fuel racial tension and raises questions over police corruption. Bees Roux, a prop forward for the Super 14 giants the Blue Bulls - described as a man mountain - is out ... Meredith Killer 'Victim Of Planted Evidence'
Sky News
Steve Moore, who spent 25 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, claimed the 23-year-old was the victim of corruption with evidence being planted. But he insisted even the evidence presented... Hundreds Of Tiger Sharks In Feeding Frenzy
Sky News
The rescue helicopter crew who filmed the sharks said they spotted more than one hundred of them encircling fishes in a long stretch of the coastal area in Noosa. Autopsies for PNG plane crash victims
The Daily Telegraph
THE bodies of the four victims of this week's plane crash in Papua New Guinea will be transported to Brisbane for autopsies, after being released by a PNG coroner. Autopsies for PNG plane crash victims
The Courier Mail
THE bodies of the four victims of this week's plane crash in Papua New Guinea will be transported to Brisbane for autopsies, after being released by a PNG coroner. Verdict due in Portugal child abuse case
IOL
Lisbon - A judge has started reading out a Portuguese court's verdicts on more than 800 alleged crimes in a major child sex abuse trial that has lasted nearly six years. Six men and one woman are a... Israel and Palestinians agree to more peace meetings
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that...
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