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A MAN has randomly attacked and beheaded a woman in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife, officials say. The suspect, believed to be a homeless Bulgarian man with a police record, was […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi may have fled Tripoli, Italy’s foreign minister says amid reports the strongman has been injured. At least one Catholic official in Tripoli is reporting that Gaddafi has been hurt, minister Franco […] […]

DEEP in hiding, his terror organisation becoming battered and fragmented, Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the US, officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in […] […]

THE wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister has been convicted of drug trafficking for using young women as mules to smuggle cocaine into the country. Sheryl Cwele, who is married to state security minister Siyabonga […] […]

A TOP al-Qaida ideologue vowed revenge today for the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US forces, in the first jihadist admission of the militant leader’s death. The prominent commentator, going by the online name […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed news of Osama bin Laden’s death, saying it would “bring great relief to people across the world”. “It is a great success that he has been found and […] […]

Angry crowds went on the rampage in Tripoli overnight (NZ time), burning foreign embassies and forcing the UN to evacuate its foreign staff after a Nato bombing that the regime claimed left four members of […] […]

Question: My girlfriend of eight months has a close male friend. Previously, they spent so much time together he thought they were dating. They’d be alone in his apartment, he’d cook dinner, they’d snuggle watching […] […]

A BARRAGE of tornados that killed more than 300 people and destroyed entire neighbourhoods across the southern states of the US has been branded a national catastrophe. US authorities continued their search among the ruins […] […]

AUTHORITIES said today they have recaptured 65 prisoners who were among about 500 inmates who escaped in an audacious Taliban-led jailbreak in southern Afghanistan. The prisoners, mostly insurgents, escaped overnight on Sunday through a kilometre-long […] […]