It has now been a year since Madeleine McCann went missing from her family's holiday hotel room in Portugal. Many feel that her family is no closer to finding her, and have admitted support for their campaign is...
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"NEW YORK -- Thirteen volunteers from the tri-state area have arrived home from Haiti after being trapped for days in the violence and food riots gripping the impoverished country.The 13 volunteers are mostly medical...
"LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks nosedived and demand for safe-haven bonds and currencies soared on Monday as fears gripped investors that a deteriorating U.S. economy would drag others down with it.
MSCI's main world stock index, a benchmark gauge of stock markets globally,...
"His real name is Derek Dugdale but all his mates call him Indiana Jones.
He's the man who visited Exeter's very own Temple of Doom and emerged with a treasure beyond the dreams of avarice.
Derek was digging deep and hard in Princesshay when he saw something strange,...
Update: the British military is officially distancing itself from Badgergate:"British
forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious
badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
Word spread among the...
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Open Squares weekend is a chance for the public to view the impressive garden squares, normally kept locked to the public. One category-B square in particular is never open...
"At HMP Wandsworth, the largest prison...
"In the middle of its election fever, tension gripped Kano City Nigeria yesterday as a gang of armed bandits, attacked the Sharada Divisional Police Station of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), killing at least two officers in an ensuing gun duel, while leaving another officer...
Muslim pilgrims say safety in God's hands at haj
"MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Nazir Hussein's uncle and aunt were among 362 Muslim pilgrims who were killed in a stampede in Mecca in January.
But that has...
As violence continues in Gaza even the Pope has joined the voices of concern over growing violence. "In the past six days more than 50 Palestinians have been killed in northern Gaza. Most of them have been militants, but civilians are continually being caught in the...
" JonBenet's murder attracted massive TV coverage Few crime stories in the past decade have gripped America as much as the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who was found beaten and strangled in her home the day after Christmas in 1996. That year more than 800 children...