Month: July 2010

A FOUR-year-old Indianapolis boy picked up a gun left lying on a kitchen table and fired a shot that killed the three-year-old daughter of his father’s girlfriend, police say. After finding the .45-calibre handgun, the […] […]

PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to strip the French nationality from foreign-born criminals who use violence against police or public officials. Struggling in the opinion polls after his Government was implicated in a financial scandal […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster […] […]

A US soldier accused of leaking military video footage from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan has been transferred to a US military jail. Private […] […]

THE leadership of the US army has been accused of failing to pay enough attention to the mental health of troops after a record number of soldier suicides. An internal army report found the top […] […]

Pilgrims will have to pay as much as £25 ($54) to attend one of the two public events in England to be led by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in September, church officials said […] […]

NEW YORK, USA — A single mother apparently slit the throats of her three children, then sat with them and her toddler in their burning home until she died from smoke inhalation last week, according […] […]