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Syria TV: Twin Explosions Near Damascus Kill 8, Wound 13
Two suicide bomb attacks struck close to the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding over a dozen others in the latest attack to hit the predominantly Shiite area in recent months, state TV and an opposition activist group said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombings through...
‘Voice’ singer Christina Grimmie shot at Orlando concert
Singer Christina Grimmie, who starred in NBC's "The Voice," was critically injured when a gunman shot her after a concert in Florida, authorities said. A man armed with two guns walked up to the singer as she was signing autographs Friday night and opened fire, Orlando Police spokeswoman Wanda Ford said....
2 Killed in Small Plane Crash Near Los Angeles
Two people were killed Friday after a small plane they were in crashed into a town house in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, authorities said. A Los Angeles County fire dispatcher said nobody on the ground was hurt. The plane appeared to have smashed into the front of an attached, two-story town house in a complex and...
Mother, brother burn Pakistani woman to death, police say
A young Pakistani woman was burned to death by her mother and brother Wednesday, apparently because she married a man against her family's wishes, police said. Zeenat Rafique, 18, had eloped and moved away, but returned to her family's home in Lahore because she was under the impression a reconciliation could occur,...
Gorilla killing: Will boy’s parents be charged for conduct at zoo?
Will the drama surrounding Harambe's death come to an end, or is this just the beginning? On Monday, the Hamilton County prosecutor may announce whether the parents of a 3-year-old boy, who fell in the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, will face charges. Zoo officials shot and killed a rare silverback gorilla named...
Three dead and more missing in fierce Australia east coast storms
Wild weather which has smashed into Australia's east coast and whipped up giant waves on Sydney beaches has left at least three people dead and others missing, police said on Monday as the clean-up began. Ferocious storms pounded the coast over the weekend, causing flooding in New South Wales while huge seas resulted in...
California shooting: Dead woman on gunman’s ‘kill list’
Police say the gunman who killed a professor at the University of California Los Angeles had a 'kill list', which led them to find a woman dead in Minnesota. Mainak Sarkar is said to have taken his own life after shooting Bill Klug at the university campus on Wednesday. Investigators found a note at the scene naming a...
Young boy finds crystal meth in his Kinder Surprise egg
A six-year-old boy who found a chocolate egg under a hedge last week was perplexed on opening it up to find a bag containing a white powder inside. The child, who was playing with his eight-year-old brother in their home town of Limavady, Northern Ireland, gave the mystery substance to his father, who then passed it on to...
Top U.S. Auctioneers Refused To Sell Gun From Trayvon Martin Shooting
Two of America’s leading auctioneers of guns said they refused on ethical grounds to handle the sale of the 9 mm pistol that George Zimmerman used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. The firearm is so toxic that another auctioneer, the man who sold the revolver used to kill John F. Kennedy’s assassin,...
Ankara bombing: President Erdogan vows to bring terror ‘to its knees’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to bring terrorism "to its knees" after an attack in the capital Ankara that killed at least 36 people. Mr Erdogan said the suicide car bomb would serve only to strengthen the resolve of Turkey's security forces. The blast in the key transport hub of Guven...
EU migrant crisis: Calais ‘Jungle’ clearance work due to resume
Demolition teams are due to return to the French port of Calais to dismantle more makeshift shelters in the migrant camp known as the "Jungle". Overnight, riot police fired tear gas at migrants who were hurling stones at the demolition squads. Authorities say the migrants must move to shipping containers...
Russian mine accident leaves 36 dead
A total of 36 people, including five rescue workers, are presumed dead following an explosion at a coal mine in northern Russia, officials say. Four miners were killed when a methane leak triggered two explosions in the mine near Vorkuta on Thursday. Rescuers were trying to rescue 26 trapped miners when a new blast...