Militants behead British hostage
CAIRO (AP) — An Internet video released Friday purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning, the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist... Read more »
View ArticlePistorius back in court for sentencing
Pretoria (AFP) – Fallen Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius returned to court Monday, with his top-flight legal team expected to argue for a non-custodial sentence after his conviction on the equivalent......
View ArticleInside Bashar Assad’s torture chambers (Warning: ‘Horrific’ images)
The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the emaciated, bruised and burned bodies of Syrian torture victims — gruesome images that a top official told Yahoo News constitute “smoking...
View ArticleEbola epidemic still spreading in W. Africa
By Tom Miles and Kate Kelland GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – The Ebola epidemic is still spreading in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and the number of cases in West Africa will... Read more »
View ArticleSteenkamp was about to leave Pistorius, says mother
London (AFP) – The mother of Oscar Pistorius’s girlfriend believes that her daughter was about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a South African... Read more »
View ArticleWhat went wrong?
By Ian Simpson and Irene Klotz WALLOPS Va. (Reuters) – Authorities on Wednesday started investigating what made an unmanned U.S. supply rocket explode in a fireball moments after lifting off... Read...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic CEO sees new spacecraft ready next year
By Irene Klotz MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) – Virgin Galactic could have a new spacecraft ready to fly by next year, the chief executive of Richard Branson’s space tourism company said... Read more »
View ArticlePistorius back in court for sentencing
Pretoria (AFP) – Fallen Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius returned to court Monday, with his top-flight legal team expected to argue for a non-custodial sentence after his conviction on the equivalent......
View ArticleInside Bashar Assad’s torture chambers (Warning: ‘Horrific’ images)
The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the emaciated, bruised and burned bodies of Syrian torture victims — gruesome images that a top official told Yahoo News constitute “smoking...
View ArticleEbola epidemic still spreading in W. Africa
By Tom Miles and Kate Kelland GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – The Ebola epidemic is still spreading in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and the number of cases in West Africa will... Read more »
View ArticleSteenkamp was about to leave Pistorius, says mother
London (AFP) – The mother of Oscar Pistorius’s girlfriend believes that her daughter was about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a South African... Read more »
View ArticleWhat went wrong?
By Ian Simpson and Irene Klotz WALLOPS Va. (Reuters) – Authorities on Wednesday started investigating what made an unmanned U.S. supply rocket explode in a fireball moments after lifting off... Read...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic CEO sees new spacecraft ready next year
By Irene Klotz MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) – Virgin Galactic could have a new spacecraft ready to fly by next year, the chief executive of Richard Branson’s space tourism company said... Read more »
View ArticleFrench security forces kill gunmen, end terror rampage
PARIS (AP) — With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical... Read...
View ArticleMiddle East roiled by Yemen chaos and Saudi succession
View gallery . Ali Soufan is the chief executive officer of the Soufan Group. He is a former FBI supervisory special agent who … Ali Soufan, president of the Soufan Group,... Read more »
View ArticleIslamic State group silent as deadline passes with no swap
TOKYO (AP) — The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot were unknown Friday, a day after the latest purported deadline for a possible prisoner swap passed with... Read more »
View ArticleSomali extremists urge attacks on U.S. shopping malls
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries. U.S.......
View ArticleFamilies to 3 missing UK girls: ‘Please come home!’
LONDON (AP) — Turkish police searched Monday for three missing British schoolgirls believed to be headed to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group as their frightened families issued... Read...
View ArticleHarrison Ford survives crash-landing on golf course
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage plane Thursday after losing engine power, suffering serious but not life-threatening injuries as he used his extensive piloting experience to...
View ArticleBloody Sundays: Violence against peaceful protesters from Selma to Belfast
How long must we sing this song? President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Selma, Ala., on Saturday, March 7, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that... Read more »
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