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Nick Alexander: Inquest into death of Briton killed in Paris terror attack to begin
AN INQUEST hearing into the death of a Briton killed in the Paris attacks will begin today. Nick Alexander was in the Bataclan theatre when Islamic State gunmen stormed the building midway during a concert last year. The 35-year-old, from Colchester, Essex, had been selling merchandise for the popular US rock band Eagles of...
Holiday alert to families as Zika heads for Europe
THE ZIKA virus is expected to spread to Europe this summer, possibly putting UK holidaymakers at risk. Health officials said yesterday they fear the mosquito-borne disease – linked to abnormalities in babies born to infected mothers – will hit large areas of the continent in the coming months. The island of...
American B-52 bomber crashes in Guam
A B-52 bomber has crashed shortly after take-off at a US base in Guam, the US Air Force says. It says all seven crew members safely left the aircraft after the incident at 08:30 local time (22:30 GMT Wednesday) at Andersen Air Force Base. The US Air Force told the BBC it was treating the incident as a "mishap". The...
EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo ‘disappears from radar’
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the Egyptian airline says. It says there are 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000ft (11,300m) when it went missing over the eastern Mediterranean. An official said the plane...
Star of the film «Taxi» was arrested!
54-year-old well-known French actor Sami Naseri was request bynpolice to show his driver's license but he had only Ukrainian one. Recently, the star of the film Taxi Sami Naseri was detained by traffic police. It happened in Cannes, on the Croisette, during a routine check. According to the French publication Le...
Senate Passes Bill Allowing 9/11 Victims To Sue Saudi Arabia
The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia’s government for damages, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto. The Saudis, who deny responsibility for the 2001 attacks, strongly object to the bill. They had said...
Iran arrests eight for ‘un-Islamic’ Instagram modelling
Iran has arrested eight people working for online modelling agencies deemed to be "un-Islamic", the prosecutor of Tehran's cybercrimes court has said. The arrests are part of an operation that has seen women targeted for posting photos showing them not wearing headscarves on Instagram and elsewhere. Women in Iran...
Canada wildfire: Oil workers evacuate camps near Fort McMurray
Hundreds of Canadian oil workers have been ordered to evacuate camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them. Alberta State Premier Rachel Notley said up to 600 workers were being sent to oil sands installations further north. About 4,000 more workers are on standby to evacuate if...
Chicago Police Are Searching for a Reportedly ‘Missing Suicidal’ Sinead O’Connor
Chicago police are searching for singer Sinead O'Connor, who left for a bike ride at 6 a.m. on Sunday and has not returned, the Chicago Tribune reports. "A caller has expressed concern for her well-being, and no other information is available at this time," police said in a statement. The singer was last...
Utah men held for holding woman and daughters in basement
A father and son accused of kidnapping a woman and her four daughters in the US state of Utah have been taken into custody, police said. Dereck Harrison, 22, was captured in the state of Wyoming hours after his father Flint, 55, gave himself up. They are said to have tied the woman and her teenage daughters up in a basement in...
The star of «Сlone» series died in a terrible accident
A terrible tragedy occurred on November 3 in Columbia. The well-known actress, heroine of many Latin American soap operas, which are broadcasted around the world, Adrian Campos was killed in a car accident. She was with her husband, director and businessman Carlos Rincon going on the road to the south-west of the...
FBI agent wounded in Ill. shootout; police shooting suspect killed
A week-long manhunt for a suspect who wounded an Illinois police officer ended Sunday in a shootout more than 200 miles south that wounded an FBI agent and left the suspect dead. Police in southern Illinois said that after the shootout, a police robot entered an abandoned house in near Eddyville, Ill., near the Kentucky border,...