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Mohammed Merah, Toulouse shooting suspect, has not been arrested yet
Mohammed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of a spate of shootings in the Toulouse area, has not been arrested yet, but police have surrounded his...
Judith Tebbutt released six months after she was kidnapped in Kenya
Judith Tebbutt, the British woman kidnapped in Kenya, has been freed in Somalia six months after she was seized and her husband David killed. Judith...
Toulouse shooting suspect’s house surrounded by police
French police hunting an Algerian-origin gunman suspected of killing seven people in southern France in two separate attacks, including Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, have...
Huug Bosse, the Dutch man who can’t stop laughing after hip surgery
Huug Bosse is a Dutch man who had hip surgery two years ago and he hasn’t stopped laughing since. Huug Bosse’s wife finds it annoying, his...
Toulouse Ozar Hatorah gunman had a camera around his neck
The man who killed four people at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse had a camera around his neck and may have filmed the...
Van Gogh’ Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses is deemed genuine
Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses, a painting once thought to be by Vincent van Gogh but later dismissed has now been confirmed...
Ozar Hatorah shooting: huge manhunt after four people have been killed at the Jewish school in Toulouse
France launched one of the biggest manhunts in recent country’s history after three children and one adult were shot dead at Ozar Hatorah Jewish...
Norway: five foreign tourists killed in a major avalanche in Troms
Five foreign tourists have died after being buried by a major avalanche in northern Norway, local police say. The victims are reported to be four...
Ozar Hatorah shooting UPDATE: a teacher and 3 children have been killed at Toulouse Jewish school
A teacher and three children have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse. A...
Shooting at French Jewish school Ozar Hatorah in Toulouse
Two children and one adult have been killed in a shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, south-west France. Eyewitnesses said a man opened fire...
Joachim Gauck elected as Germany’s new president
Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and civil rights activist from the former East Germany, has been elected as Germany's new president. Joachim Gauck, 72,...
Kirtana Vallabhaneni named as the UK Young Scientist of the Year
Kirtana Vallabhaneni, a Merseyside student at West Kirby Grammar School has been named as the UK Young Scientist of the Year. Kirtana Vallabhaneni, 17, beat...
Ronald Reagan’s doodles released by Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust
Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust has released doodles made by Ronald Reagan at the 1981 Ottawa G7 summit, which were then kept by the former...
Belgium: day of national mourning to remember victims of the Switzerland coach crash
Belgium is holding a day of national mourning by coming to a standstill for a minute's silence at 11:00 a.m. and with flags being...
Costa Concordia: the ship’s bell has gone missing
The Costa Concordia's bell is reported to have gone missing, two months after the ship ran aground off Italy. An investigation has been launched into...
At least 22 children and 6 adults killed after a Belgian coach crashed in Switzerland
At least 28 people, including 22 children, have been killed after a Belgian coach crashed in a tunnel in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Another...
London Olympics 2012 doubled hotel rooms price
Visitors to London in 2012 will pay twice as much to stay in the city as last year, according to an annual survey of...
Possible Leonardo Da Vinci fresco found in the Palazzo Vecchio
Italian art researchers say they may have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci work hidden under a Florentine fresco. Tiny probes, sent through drilled...
Sarkozy junior hurled tomato and other objects at female officer guarding Elysee Palace
Louis Sarkozy, the youngest son of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, threw a tomato and other objects at a police woman standing outside Elysee Palace,...
Istanbul blaze killed at least 11 construction workers in Esenyurt district
At least 11 construction workers have died after fire swept through a tent at a building site in Istanbul, Turkey. The incident happened in the...
Moebius, the French comics artist Jean Giraud, died at 73 in Paris
Moebius, as Jean Giraud, one of France's leading comics artists, was known, has died in Paris at the age of 73 after a long...
Bild abolishes “Page 1 Girl” after 28 years of tradition
German tabloid Bild has decided to end the tradition of publishing pictures of naked women on its front page after 28 years. Bild, the Germany's...
Italian cargo ship Gelso M ran aground off Sicily
The Italian coast guards have rescued the crew of a cargo ship after it ran aground on a reef off Sicily in stormy seas. All...
New anti-Putin protests in Moscow and other Russian cities
New protests are taking place in Moscow and other Russian cities following Vladimir Putin's victory in last weekend's presidential election. Almost 20,000 people lined one...
Madeleine McCann disappearance: Portuguese police set up a new team of detectives to review the case
A new team of detectives has been set up by the Portuguese police to review the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. An outside...
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