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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader long exiled from China, is seeking to visit the Tibetan region rocked by a deadly earthquake this week. In a statement issued Saturday from Dharamsala, the northern Indian […] […]

A British-Australian couple’s wedding guests have watched them take their vows over the internet after the volcanic ash cloud disrupting European flights left them stranded in Dubai. Sean Murtagh, 24, from west London, and his […] […]

This has got to be the most laughable story ever: A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers […] […]

Schoolchildren who participated in The Sunday Gleaner’s survey buying alcoholic beverages at a convenience store in Kingston. For several years, alcohol abuse among minors has been a major problem in Jamaica. The latest national school […] […]

Police are appealing for witnesses following a shooting a party, which left three partygoers injured. The event had been put on by ‘UK Urban Culture’ website, Grime Daily who were celebrating their one-year anniversary at […] […]

Sweden’s playboy crown prince has struck up a relationship with a glamour model who posed topless with a python wrapped around her body. News of the love affair has captivated Swedish society and put the […] […]

SOUTH African police are investigating the possibility that the murder of the white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche came after he attempted to rape the men accused of killing him. Lieutenant-General Jan Mabula said that criminal […] […]

At least seven bombs ripped through apartment buildings across Baghdad yesterday and another struck a market, killing 49 people and wounding more than 160. The explosions were the latest in a five-day spree of attacks […] […]

A “prominent” Galway man who sexually abused his granddaughter and offered her family €200,000 not to go to gardai has been jailed for three years. The 63-year-old man, who cannot be named as it would […] […]

The aircraft came down in a field, missing buildings and cables Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed and burst into flames in a field in Hampshire. Twenty firefighters were called to the […] […]