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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Aug. 5 — Henrri Zeballos, a lawyer, and his wife, a dentist, gathered the kids in their minivan for a Sunday-morning drive through their home town of Santa Cruz.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, Aug. 2 — There will be no Clinton restoration — not this year, at least. But the rehabilitation of Bill Clinton has begun.
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CHAHAR DARREH, Afghanistan — Lt. Col. Abdul Hamid, a new police commander, was having trouble doing the math. When he took control of this district in the country’s north in early July, he had 54 officers. Since then, some had been transferred; others had disappeared.
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BEIJING, Aug. 6 — Two American and two British protesters slipped through a smothering Olympic security net Wednesday, climbed a pair of lamp posts and unfurled banners demanding freedom for Tibet near the new stadium where the Beijing Games are to open Friday night.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritanian soldiers overthrew the elected president in a coup on Wednesday and announced the formation of a military ruling council in the northwest African Islamic state.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A jury of U.S. military officers reached a verdict on Wednesday in the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver, who is accused of conspiring with al Qaeda and providing material support for terrorism in the U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two.
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Cheering, flag-waving crowds in the Chinese capital, Beijing, have been watching the Olympic torch on the final leg of its global relay.
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“America stands in firm opposition to China’s detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists,” Bush will declare in the marquee speech of his three-nation Asia trip. “We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly and labor rights — not to antagonize China’s leaders, but because trusting its people with greater […]
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THE MYSTERY surrounding Heath Ledger’s death deepened yesterday, when it emerged that the actress Mary-Kate Olsen is refusing to co-operate with investigators trying to establish how the Dark Knight star got hold of the powerful painkillers that caused his accidental fatal overdose.
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Madeleine McCann’s parents last night accused Portuguese detectives of withholding potentially crucial evidence from them, after police files revealed a series of previously secret leads.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Aug. 5) - A Mexican-born prisoner condemned for taking part in the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago waited in a cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber Tuesday evening while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether he should be spared from execution.
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Filthy NHS wards are being plagued by pests - with maggots found in slippers and rats in maternity units, it was revealed last night.
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LOS ANGELES - City officials say the monthly homicide rate in Los Angeles has dropped to its lowest levels since 1970.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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Watch this video from a John McCain news conference in Florida on Friday. Gloss over the halting difficulty he has in responding to a two-part question (is he ready to lead? Geez) and focus instead on when he expresses pride in “fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in my state.â€
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2:20am UK, Wednesday August 06, 2008
The Olympic torch has been greeted by thousands of spectators as it finally arrived in Beijing two days before the start of the Games.
Yao Ming carries the Olympic flame into central Beijing
The arrival of the torch follows the longest route ever taken by an Olympic flame and one that was […]
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The latest news snippets and gossip from the house…
Some of the housemates talked about slang when Nicole mentioned she liked Stuart’s phrases. She combined them and giggled that people could say something was “top mint”. Darnell said it was awful when people tried to use slang but got it wrong. “It’s like when Lisa said: […]
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A strong aftershock struck a western Chinese region where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, shaking buildings a few hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area Tuesday.
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ORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba - A man accused of stabbing, beheading and cannibalizing another man on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to “please kill me,” and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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