Sunday 26 May 2013
BRITAIN and the US have combined to heap fresh pressure on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to kick-start the Middle East peace process by telling them to make "hard decisions" soon or face losing the chance of a two-state solution.
Turkey is to restrict the sale and advertising of alcohol, prompting an outcry from people concerned about the creeping Islamisation of the country.
THE Boy Scouts of America have voted to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists.
A TRUCK crashed into a four-lane freeway bridge in Washington state yesterday evening and may have caused it to collapse, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river, officials said.
President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counter terrorism policy
FORMER US president John F Kennedy openly admired Nazi Germany when he toured the country as a young man, according to a new book marking the 50th anniversary of his historic 1963 visit to Cold War West Berlin.
AN Irish storm chaser is leading the Oklahoma community into recovery by delivering supplies to those affected by the devastating tornado.
A Chechen man reportedly implicated the older Boston Marathon bomber in a 2011 triple murder moments before he lashed out at an FBI agent and was gunned down.
Oklahoma residents have revealed the extreme lengths they went to survive the devastating tornado which killed 24 people.
‘Vacuum cleaner’ for windpipe created by experts in Michigan hailed as a medical breakthrough
An FBI agent has shot and killed a Chechen man with alleged ties to deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in what was described as a "violent confrontation" in Orlando, Florida.
I remember once, when I was a child growing up in New York, gathering in my basement with my mother and sister after our neighbourhood was placed under a tornado watch.
An FBI agent has shot and killed a Chechen man with alleged ties to deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in what was described as a "violent confrontation" in Orlando, Florida.
When the sirens started their ominous song, Pete Prieto barely looked up. "Here comes another hailstorm," he remembers saying to himself.
KYLE DAVIS, a blond-haired ball of eight-year-old energy who loved to play football, was killed when a roofing beam struck his neck as he sheltered in a school corridor.
Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.
LOS ANGELES, which has more storefront medical marijuana shops than any other U.S. city, will close hundreds of the dispensaries and hike taxes on those that will be allowed to remain under a ballot measure approved by a wide margin of voters.
Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling. Four decades after Watergate and two decades after his death, we still can't stop talking about the dark anti-hero of American politics. His five o'clock shadow visage remains too convenient a metaphor for lazy critics looking to lacerate a president from the opposing party.
A US college student being held hostage by an armed man was shot and killed by a police officer, writes Ian Adams.
Maths classes teach us what prime numbers are from an early age.
A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5m (€460m).
AMERICA'S east coast is bracing itself for "Swarmageddon" as hordes of flying insects emerge from underground.
A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late yesterday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought.
A commuter train traveling eastbound from New York City derailed near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield during the evening rush hour on Friday and collided with a westbound commuter train, injuring up to 60 people, three critically, officials said.
US President Barack Obama has attempted to reassert his authority by promising the American people that he is taking swift action to address a trio of political scandals that have hit the White House.
POLICE in Pennsylvania have arrested a homeless murder suspect, known across the world as 'Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker', after the discovery of a 73-year-old's body in New Jersey.
A CHICAGO man facing evicting with mountains of bills is now a multi-millionaire thanks to a lottery ticket bout months ago and found in a cookie jar in his kitchen.
The surviving Boston marathon bomber allegedly scrawled a note inside the boat where he was found, blaming the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the attack.
Jorge Rafael Videla, who was a part of one of the bloodiest chapters Argentina's history has died.
At least six people died, dozens were injured and hundreds left homeless as 10 tornadoes tore through Texas.
Move over Rory McIlroy, this office worker has got amazing putting skills.
Leads tornado recovery efforts
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44-year-old Jennifer Aniston strips to her undies in new movie
Why do we regard only children as demanding, spoilt and selfish?
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