Month: November 2011

A woman in London has been arrested after her tirade of abuse of her fellow passengers on a tram was filmed and uploaded on to YouTube. In the two-minute clip the woman is seen shouting […] […]

An 8-year-old elementary school student in the United States who weighs more than 90 kilograms has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn’t doing […] […]

SUSPECTED Islamic militants detonated a powerful bomb that killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in a budget hotel packed with wedding guests in the southern Philippines. Investigators believe the blast and ensuing […] […]

AFGHAN and Western officials claim NATO and Afghan forces came under fire from across the Pakistan border on Saturday before they called in a deadly airstrike on two Pakistani military posts, in an incident that […] […]

RUSSIA will send a flotilla of warships led by its only aircraft carrier to its naval base in Syria for a port call next year, amid tensions with the West over the Syrian crisis. The […] […]

A body found in a shallow grave in northeast Ohio was identified Saturday as that of a missing man whose father said answered a Craigslist ad similar to one police say was used in a […] […]

Searchers are recovering the remains of six passengers killed when a twin-engine plane slammed into a rugged mountaintop cliff near Phoenix, authorities say. The dead included pilot Shawn Perry, 39, his two sons and his […] […]

The US increased pressure on Egypt’s military rulers to hand power to civilian leaders. The generals turned to a Mubarak-era politician to head a new government in a move that failed to satisfy more than […] […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A 16-year-old girl from New York state is in critical condition after a jet ski collided with the banana boat on which she was riding in the Cayman Islands. A police official […] […]