Month: July 2011

TROPICAL Storm Nock-ten killed 20 people and forced more than 125,000 families into evacuation centers in the Philippines today, local broadcaster ABS-CBN News reported. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Director Benito Ramos said […] […]

THE leader of a British far-right group to which Anders Behring Breivik claims links called the attacks a sign of “growing anger” in Europe against Muslim immigrants, while a politician in a party in Italy’s […] […]

VANCOUVER, WASH.—A woman accused of trying to sell her newborn son at a Taco Bell restaurant in southwest Washington has been charged with attempted child selling because she wasn’t successful. According to court documents, prosecutors […] […]

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Heavy rain sent landslides barrelling through the South Korean capital and a northern town Wednesday, killing 17 and leaving at least three missing, officials said. Eight of the 12 killed in […] […]

AFGHAN and NATO forces said 35 people – most of them insurgents – have been killed in escalating violence as the Taliban try to regain territory lost during the winter months to the US-led coalition. […] […]

LIBYA’S regime accused NATO of killing at least seven people in an air raid on a medical clinic in Zliten, east of Tripoli, after rebels repulsed a counter-attack by loyalist troops south of the capital. […] […]

AN autopsy is being held to determine the cause of Amy Winehouse’s death, but a coroner’s official says police have found no suspicious circumstances. The singer was found dead on Saturday at her London home […] […]

THE gunman who slaughtered dozens of campers at a Norwegian island retreat used special bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause maximum internal damage, the chief surgeon at a hospital treating victims said. […] […]

The hunt by GTA police for killer and rapist Alexander Winston Sylvester began 30 years ago, at a time when there were no computerized police data banks or DNA testing. It successfully ended this month […] […]