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FORGET all those fictional fairytale romance stories you might have heard as a child because Sweden has hosted the real thing. Crown Princess Victoria has married her fitness trainer boyfriend, Daniel Westling, in Stockholm after […] […]

ONE of the most expensive police investigations in Victorian history was founded on the word of a discredited killer and notorious liar. The criminal’s own veteran lawyer also emphatically rejected one of his central allegations […] […]

Rarely can a country have greeted its own national team’s humiliation in the World Cup with such grim satisfaction. Under the headline “les imposteurs”, the French national sports daily L’Equipe yesterday begged its readers to […] […]

A US drone fired two missiles into an Al-Qa’ida hideout in Pakistan’s tribal belt, killing 11 militants in a district on the Afghan border. The strike took place today in Inzarabad village, 25 kilometres east […] […]

A dozen white balloons were all that announced the rag-tag group in a car park opposite Utah State Prison. White is for mercy. But these folks in Draper expected none on this starry evening. Exactly […] […]

STOCKTON, Calif.—The evidence against her mounted, but Melissa Huckaby stuck to her story as police questioned her in April 2009: She had nothing to do with the abduction, rape and murder of an 8-year-old neighbor […] […]

ANDIZHAN, UZBEKISTAN—The United States called Friday for an international investigation into ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, as the country’s leader said the death toll could be 10 times higher than the official tally of 190. Russia, […] […]

A woman can’t consent to sex unless she knows who she is sleeping with, the Ontario Court of Appeal said Friday in the case of a man convicted of sexually assaulting his identical twin brother’s […] […]

SUTHINI was 14 when she was forced to hide in the boot of a car and transported, without documents, across Indonesia’s land border into Malaysia to be sold into forced prostitution Suthini (not her real […] […]

SWEDEN’S future queen Crown Princess Victoria is set to wed her former personal trainer on Saturday in one of the largest public celebrations ever organised in Stockholm. Crown Princess Victoria, 32, will tie the knot […] […]