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Navy Yard shooting: Twelve die and up to 15 are wounded in rampage
At least one heavily armed gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard killing at least 11 people and injuring at...
UN confirms use of sarin gas in Damascus attacks
A UN report has confirmed "unequivocally and objectively" that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. The report says sarin gas was used in a...
Prince Philip meets Prince George two months after his birth
Prince Philip has been finally introduced to his great-grandson, Prince George, for the first time since his birth in July. The eight-week-old future king flew...
Shooting at Washington Navy Yard
Several people have been shot by a gunman at the Washington Navy Yard, a naval installation in the US capital, the US Navy has...
Costa Concordia freed from reef
Engineering officials say they have succeeded in lifting the cruise ship Costa Concordia free of rocks, 20 months after it ran aground. Efforts to right...
Cost Concordia raising under way
An attempt to pull the shipwrecked Costa Concordia upright - one of the largest and most daunting salvage operations ever undertaken - is under...
South Korean troops shoot dead man swimming to North Korea
South Korean soldiers have shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea, officials say. Troops opened fire after the...
Australia: Tony Abbott unveils new cabinet
Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott has unveiled his new cabinet, calling it a highly experienced line-up. The appointments broadly followed the line up...
Kaesong industrial park reopened in North Korea after five months
South Korean workers have crossed the North Korean border to return to the Kaesong industrial park, five months after work was halted amid high...
Amanda Knox reveals why she will not attend Italy retrial
Amanda Knox has revealed she will not attend a retrial in Italy because she will forever be seen as “the dark lady who decided...
Syria hails chemical weapons deal as a victory
A Syrian minister hails the US-Russia agreement on destroying the country's chemical weapons as a "victory" that averts war. The framework document says Syria must...
Costa Concordia salvage due to begin on Monday
Costa Concordia salvage will go ahead on Monday, Italian officials have confirmed. The Civil Protection agency said the sea and weather conditions were right for...
Colorado floods: Death toll rises to five as more than 500 people are missing
More than 500 people are missing and at least 4 people have died, with another victim believed to be dead, after flash floods hit...
Sarah Palin sued by North Jersey Media Group Inc. for copyright infringement over 9/11 photo
North Jersey Media Group Inc. is suing Sarah Palin and her political action committee for a copyright infringement over the use of an iconic...
How Vladimir Putin beat Republican Dana Rohrabacher in drunken arm-wrestling match
Vladimir Putin and a group of American politicians had an arm-wrestling match a few years after the fall of the Berlin wall. In an interview...
Soldier N: SAS assassinated Princess Diana by shining light into her driver’s face
Soldier N claimed Princess Diana was killed after a member of British SAS unit shone a light in her driver's face causing him to...
Afghanistan: At least 27 miners killed in Abkhorak coal mine collapse
At least 27 Afghan miners have been killed in a collapse after being trapped underground in the northern province of Samangan, officials have confirmed. Provincial...
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner criticizes Argentine elite
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has criticized her country's elite for trying to create a negative image of her government. "These small sectors have...
Hurricane Ingrid: Mexico hit by severe dual storm
Hurricane Ingrid, the second major storm of the hurricane season, has been steadily gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of people who have...
Raffaele Sollecito claims Italian police wanted him to frame Amanda Knox for murder
Raffaele Sollecito has claimed Italian police tried to bribe him into framing ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher -...
Poland: Mass anti-government rally against labor law changes
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Warsaw in the last of four days of Polish protests against proposed labor law changes. The protesters...
Hosni Mubarak retrial: Judge Mahmoud el-Rachidi orders trial media blackout
Judge Mahmoud el-Rachidi has ordered a media blackout during the next phase of the retrial of Egypt’s former leader Hosni Mubarak. Judge Mahmoud el-Rachidi said...
Russia and US agree Syria chemical weapons deal in Geneva
Russia and the US have agreed in Geneva that Syria's chemical weapons must be destroyed or removed by mid-2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry...
Robel Phillipos, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov plead not guilty in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev case
Friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Robel Phillipos, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that they...
United Airlines to honor free tickets issued in airfare glitch
United Airlines has decided to honor airline tickets sold for as little as $0 because of a computer error. United Airlines, one of the largest...
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