A small biplane crashed Saturday afternoon during a performance at an air show in suburban Atlanta, killing the pilot, authorities say. DeKalb County Public Information Officer Sheira Campbell says the pilot crashed and died while flying in tandem with another plane during an aerial acrobatics stunt at the Good Neighbor Day...
A security contractor has been killed outside the Australian embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a statement identifying the victim as a 34-year-old Australian man. Ms Bishop said at a press conference that the man's death was not related to Baghdad's broader...
A senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in Syria, the Lebanon-based Shia militant organisation says. Mustafa Amine Badreddine died in a large explosion near Damascus airport, Hezbollah said in a statement on the website of its al-Manar network. It rolled back on an earlier claim that Israel was responsible. Badreddine is...
Two car bomb blasts are reported to have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, just hours after an attack on a market left 64 people dead. Police sources told the Reuters news agency that at least 15 people had been killed in the northern Kadhimiya area and seven others in the city's west. A car bomb was also used in the...
Rickey Smith, a Top 10 finalist from Season 2 of American Idol, was killed early Friday on a highway in Oklahoma City when his car was struck by a wrong-way driver. He was 36. Smith was eastbound on Interstate 240 south of the city shortly after 3 a.m., when his Honda Accord was hit head-on by a pickup truck that was westbound...
A MENTALLY ill man who stabbed a pensioner to death while shouting “die you f****** c***” was failed by NHS practitioners who ignored claims he would “hurt someone or worse”, a court heard today. Relatives of Matthew Daley, who brutally stabbed 79-year-old Donald Lock 39 times following a low-speed car...
TWO pilots who died when their light aircraft crashed to the ground in North Yorkshire on Saturday have been named as trainee RAF pilots. Police tonight revealed the tragic students were Cameron James Forster, 21, from Sussex, and Ajvir Singh Sandhu, 25, from Essex. North Yorkshire Police identified the pair two days after they...
Eleven people have been found dead and two are missing after a helicopter crashed west of the Norwegian city of Bergen carrying 13, rescuers say. Eleven of those on board were Norwegian, one was British and one Italian. Photos from the scene show thick smoke coming from an area of rocky islets. The helicopter was "totally...
FAMILIES clapped, cried and cheered as the jury in the Hillsborough inquests found 96 people were unlawfully killed on the day of the football disaster. The jury delivered their verdicts on the 14 questions concerning the tragedy of April 15 1989, which saw dozens of Liverpool fans killed in the UK’s worst sporting...
As the Ohio manhunt intensifies for a gunman who shot dead eight relatives in "execution type" killings, the Ohio Attorney General’s office confirmed that a Facebook threat was made against the youngest victim — 16-year-old Chris Rhoden. Authorities say they are pursuing the Facebook threat along with...
A Canadian man murdered by militants in the Philippines has been described as a "kind and gregarious person who touched everyone he knew with his enthusiasm and generosity." John Ridsdel was beheaded by Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf, which took him hostage along with three others in September last year. In a...
The veteran Florida zookeeper who was mauled by a tiger violated policy when she entered into the big cat's enclosure, zoo officials said. In a statement released late Friday, Palm Beach Zoo president and chief executive Andrew Aiken said Stacey Konwiser, 38, entered "the same portion" of the tiger house that was...