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A 14-year-old sea cadet has died after falling overboard in the Solent. The boy, from Kent, was on the training ship TS Royalist which was anchored at Stokes Bay south of Gosport, Hampshire. He was […] […]

A prisoner had part of his ear cut off in a “calculated” sequence of events so he could escape from an ambulance in Greater Manchester, police have said. Michael O’Donnell, who had been sharing a […] […]

NEW YORK – Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family’s acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of “Georgy Girl” and later dramatized her troubled past in […] […]

This is not for the squeamish A 17-year old boy in Jilin, China was stabbed in the head with a 12 inch knife and lived! An argument broke out in an internet cafe over a […] […]

Northern Afghanistan was once the safe area of the country, but since last year it has been a hotbed for various insurgent groups.  The latest word is that 100 al Qaeda fighters have infiltrated Kunduz province. […] […]

Tokyo, Japan — The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?” That is when you, the player, […] […]

Australian chef Kyle MacLennan is a dab hand at cooking crocodile steaks – but the tables were nearly turned when he went for a swim near Darwin. Mr MacLennan, 26, was totally unaware that a […] […]

Following Saturday night’s blistering 19.56-second 200-metre dash by Usain Bolt at the Jamaica National-sponsored Jamaica Inter-national Invitational, the triple world and Olympic champion now has six of the top-10 fastest times ever run over the […] […]

Usain Bolt stole the show on what was a remarkable seventh renewal of the JN Jamaica International Invitational at the National Stadium on Saturday night, with a spine-chilling 19.56-second run in the 200 metres, to […] […]

A world-leading clearance and meet record of 2.00m by American Chaunte Howard Lowe highlighted the field events at Saturday’s seventh annual Jamaica National Jamaica International Invitational at the National Stadium. The 26-year-old American was a […] […]