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Paul and Rachel Chandler – the British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for 388 days – have been given the news that Paul Chandler’s father died while the pair was in captivity. The Chandlers […] […]

A Swedish woman on honeymoon with her British husband has been killed in Cape Town after being abducted by armed men, police in South Africa have said. Two hijackers ambushed the taxi she and her […] […]

A driver who’s serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim’s parents, blaming them for their son’s death because they allowed him to ride his bike in the […] […]

A FILIPINA maid and her Bangladeshi lover will receive 100 lashes and be deported for having sex out of wedlock in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper said today. The Sharjah Sharia Court […] […]

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Deliberations at the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee hit a snag on Monday when a juror told the judge she felt threatened by other jurors and asked him to be removed […] […]

BARRIE—It took a long time to get there. But now time is all she’s got. A lifetime in prison — with no parole eligibility for 25 years. On their seventh day of deliberation, after making […] […]

Just days after saying “I do” in a beach ceremony in Mexico, 33-year-old Malcolm Johnson left his new bride and one-year-old daughter to get a coffee in the lounge of the Grand Riviera Princess hotel. […] […]

LONDON—Cheer up Britain! The weather isn’t that bad. British officials said Monday they will start measuring national well-being in addition to gauging more traditional data like income levels and fear of crime. The new plan […] […]

WASHINGTON—Officials are defending new anti-terrorism security procedures at the nation’s airports that some travelers complain are overly invasive and intimate. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says in a USA Today opinion piece that body scanners […] […]

At one point during Daniel Bessonov’s Sunday swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, the 9-year-old was convinced he wasn’t moving. Numb from the frigid water and fighting hard against the current, the Saratoga resident […] […]