Kauhajoki Victims "Shot 20 Times Each"

IT has been revealed today that some of the vcitims of school gunman Matti Saari, 22, in Kauhajoki, West Finland, had been shot up to twenty times, say the police, and at close range.   Investigators are still trying to discover what triggered Saari to act when he did....

Mysterious 'ghost' appears in couple's wedding photographs

"A schoolboy photographer is baffled after spotting a ghostly apparition hovering in the disco lights in a picture he had snapped of a newlywed couple.Wedding guest Jordan Martin, 12, took a whole series of...

Karadzic's War Crime Victims Relive their Ordeal

OBSERVER reporter Ed Vulliamy exposed the Bosnian concentration camps.  In the wake of Radovan Karadzic's arrest this week, Muslim figurehead Fikret Alic, whose image was imprinted on the world's media is...

Diver escapes from shark's mouth

"An Australian diver fought himself free from the jaws of a 10ft great white shark that swallowed his head and shoulders and then bit him around the torso. Eric Nerhus, an abalone diver, told rescuers that he pushed his abalone chisel into the shark's head and poked it in the...

In Search of George Mallory by Ben H. Swadley

"In Search of George Mallory by Ben H. Swadley Sunday, May 2nd 1999.Conrad Anker stood in somber awe looking at a frozen body some 27,000 feet above the rest of the world and only 800 feet away from Everest's summit....

Out of Thin Air

"Out of Thin Air By David Roberts For 75 years, mountaineering’s greatest mystery has lingered: Did the doomed George Mallory and Andrew Irvine reach the summit of Everest 29 years before the first confirmed ascent? The stunning discovery of Mallory’s body helps answer...

US Re-Deploys Sick Soldiers on Meds

Both Army and Marine medical officers admit that some troops suffering from combat-induced psychological problems are being returned to war zones with a supply of medications. An absolute minimum of 10 percent of those returning home from war zones has a mental health...

Ailing vets overwhelm system

After returning from war zones, many face a new fight for benefits.

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