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INTERPOL has issued an international alert for a “dangerous escaped convict” and his fiancee linked to a jailbreak in Arizona and the subsequent murder of a couple in New Mexico. The alert was issued at […] […]

A FRENCHWOMAN has admitted killing her partner, a retired chef, and preserving his body in a freezer for two years in France’s gastronomic capital, Lyon. Guylene Collober, 51, confessed to fatally punching her 71-year-old companion […] […]

AFGHAN Taliban and other extremist groups should face a war crimes tribunal over deliberate civilian deaths in Afghanistan this year. The demand by Amnesty International was prompted by a UN report which showed the civilian […] […]

A witness in whose Tivoli Gardens home five men were fatally shot during a joint police/military operation two years ago, yesterday testified that the men were unarmed and posed no danger to the security forces. […] […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric was charged Wednesday with helping plan terrorist attacks in the world’s most populous Muslim nation—a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death, police said. Abu Bakar Bashir was arrested […] […]

First comes love. Then comes the breakup. Then comes the awkward and painstaking task of Facebook de-friending, Twitter unfollowing, and deleting all photos, wall posts and other evidence of your relationship. Sound complicated? Welcome to […] […]

THREE shots were fired into a sleeping toddler’s bedroom in Adelaide in what police believe is an ongoing family feud about money. Two adults and the two-year-old boy were woken at 4.35am CST (5:05am AEST) […] […]

USAIN Bolt has called an end to his 2010 track season following an injury to his lower back. The decision, announced in a statement issued by his manager Ricky Simms today, follows last week’s disappointing […] […]

A FACEBOOK fan page for Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who hurled obscenities at passengers over the airliner’s PA system before leaving the plane via its inflatable emergency chute, had more than 30,000 fans […] […]

AMERICAN Idol winner Fantasia Barrino was admitted to hospital in North Carolina yesterday for an overdose of medication. Barrino was taken to a Charlotte area hospital at 8.55pm Monday night (local time), WCNC-TV reported. Her […] […]