A day after a spate of blasts in different parts of Pakistan on Thursday, including the suicide attack on office of the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Islamabad Police at Police Headquarters in the capital city, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a jirga (tribal council) meeting in...
And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...
Following yesterday's announcement that the UK will start investing in banks to shore up consumer and bank confidence, the US appears to be set to do the same thing. Part of the motivation behind this is, rather than...
Amidst the threat of protestors to intensify their stir in the capital Bangkok today , there is no improvement in the situation in Thailand a day after two people died and over 400 were injured in the worst...
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RBS and Barclays banks in the UK are thought to be the next to be in trouble, with shares in both banks plummeting today. It is thought that the UK government is going to take partial ownership in both banks."The U.K. government may invest at least 45 billion pounds ($79...
MSNBC News is reporting that a car bomb killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, in the Syrian capital of Damascus."The TV said a car packed with 440 pounds of explosives blew up on Mahlak Street,...
A Russian archaeologist has claimed that he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, which was a nation that adopted Judaism more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear not too long after, leaving little trace behind."Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State...
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"A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards and four civilians, a security official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the embassy in the Yemeni capital of...
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who has recently unveiled a plan to take his party further to the right in a bid to gain mainstream appeal, will be facing harsh criticism at his party's upcoming conference. Many...
During the pious month of Ramadan Poor Muslims are given donations under a system known as Zakat. Under this system wealthy muslims give a portion of their money to the poor every year.But this year the event turned into a stampede and the crush happened as people waited for...
One often hears the expression 'I smell a rat' but in Columbia rats are being trained to use their sense of smell to sniff out land mines. If that's not amazing enough they also have a cat acting as their...
Bulgarian cities have been plagued by bombing attacks and other underworld violence in recent years, with police at a loss as to how to combat the carnage. Maybe todays bombing of a row of strip clubs in Sofia, Bulgaria, will rally the police troops to action."Officials...
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Following a suicide attack in Afghanistan in which two suicide bombers killed two policemen and wounded 9 officers and 8 civilians at a police station, elsewhere Afghan authorities were able to foil an attempted suicide bombing."Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) foiled a...
Texas death-row inmate Gene Hathorn's final request is one for the record books. Easily one of the strangest final request ever made, Hathorn has asked that his post-execution body be turned into fish...
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The first parliamentary election in 16 years is taking place in Angola today, pitting a contest between the ruling party and the opposition party." Although 14 parties are taking part, the contest is primarily between long-term rivals, the ruling MPLA party and opposition...