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A young father deliberately slammed his pickup truck into the bedroom of his newborn daughter and her teenage mother, killing both before witnesses rushed to free them from furniture and debris, police in Los Angeles […] […]

INDONESIA’S most dangerous volcano has forced international airlines to cancel flights to nearby airports, as fiery lava lit the rumbling mountain’s cauldron and plumes of smoke blackened the sky. Scientists warned, meanwhile, that the slow […] […]

A PAEDOPHILE who negotiated online with the killer of British two-year-old James Bulger has been jailed for breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order. Leslie Blanchard visited dating websites and viewed adult internet pornography three times […] […]

TAMPA, Florida — Reggae singer Buju Banton’s retrial in Florida has been pushed back until February. United States District Judge James Moody had said Banton’s new trial would be in December, but he granted a […] […]

LOS ANGELES—Charlie Sheen filed to end his marriage to his third wife Monday and stated in documents that the couple separated the same day as a Christmas 2009 altercation that led to assault charges against […] […]

A wealthy British businessman is bringing a £5 million ($10.5 million) compensation claim against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his Government, alleging that he was kidnapped and tortured by the Libyan security services. Henry Djaba, 46, […] […]

FORGET the threats of terrorist attacks or cyber warfare – what is really alarming New Yorkers is a creature just a few millimetres long and extremely itchy. Cimex lectularius, the bedbug, has struck many of […] […]

A SWEDISH man who had a blood alcohol level nearly 10 times the country’s legal limit was acquitted of drunk driving after a court could not rule out the possibility he was sleepwalking when he […] […]

LONDON, CMC — Airlines, travel agents and passenger groups here continue to put pressure on the United Kingdom Government over a tax increase that goes into effect tomorrow for holidays to the Caribbean. The Air […] […]

ROME—Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Sunday by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter’s Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave […] […]