French hostages released in Niger

Red Cross have been able to secure release of 4 French hostages. French workers have been abducted from a Uranium mine in Niger."Rebels in Niger have freed four French workers they kidnapped from a uranium mine, handing them to the Red Cross. The aid organisation said it...

Gunmen steal body from morge

In a scene from the Godfather… Twenty heavily-armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a dramatic helicopter crash, police say. The gunmen killed two policemen as they took the corpse from the morgue in the...

Crocodile hunter 'believed he would die early'

"Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin always felt he would die early but that it would be a car wreck, not an animal, that killed him, the widow of the daredevil TV star and conservationist said today. In her first interview since Irwin died from the jab of a stingray on September 4,...