Month: July 2011

HONEFOSS, NORWAY—Hussein Kazemi has faced danger many times before. Maybe that’s why the teenager still can smile as he sits in his hospital bed, bullet wounds in both legs and an arm, and images of […] […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—A bomb exploded in a busy neighborhood in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing at least eight people, a witness said Sunday. Badigma Bukar, 45, whose armed was injured in Saturday’s attack, told The Associated Press […] […]

Arrested gunman Anders Behring Breivik worked 9 years on a “manifesto” that blamed multi-culturalists, Marxists and Muslims for Europe’s problems and urged violent means to purge Europe of non-Christians and those he deemed traitors to […] […]

Amanda Knox’s appeal against her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy faces a fresh challenge. A prominent forensic scientist, whose DNA evidence helped to convict the American student and her […] […]

A Chinese high-speed train derailed when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 32 people. Officials had initially put that figure at 16. […] […]

A police spokesman says a gunman has opened fire at a Texas roller rink during a birthday party, fatally shooting at least five people and wounding three others. Grand Prairie police spokesman John Brimmer told […] […]

A TOTAL of 97 people were wounded in twin attacks in Norway, police said today, giving the first injured toll from the bombing and shooting that also killed 92 people and left several missing. “We […] […]

IT was an end many had foreseen, but the death of troubled English pop star Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 is no less tragic or significant for that. Winehouse’s long-term problems with drugs […] […]