A well-orchestrated series of twin bomb explosions rocked the Tal Afar city located in Nineveh province in Northern Iraq on Thursday morning. The Nineveh Military Operations Command revealed the current death count standing at 43 with 65 injured.
More than 75,000 houses have faced severe damage in six districts of Yunnan with nearly 30 people afflicted with grave injuries. In the Yao’an district of Yunnan, close to 328 are injured with one dead. The epicentre of the quake was on a region that has a rather sparse populace in the east-northeast area of Dali city than spans 98kms.
Venezuelan cable and satellite TV channels will be obliged to run speeches by President Hugo Chavez under new rules. This follows the revocation of more than 200 radio stations. Government opponents said it was an attack on freedom of speech.
Britain\'s nuclear stockpile could be reduced as part of a global initiative to persuade Iran and North Korea to give up the arms race, Gordon Brown said on Thursday.
The 10th anniversary of a failed student uprising at Tehran University brings hundreds to the streets of Tehran on July 9, 2009, despite a ban after the recent post-election unrest.
As part of a nationwide movement, some clergy are refusing to oversee the union of couples until the right to marry is granted to all, and laws like Proposition 8 in California, which deny the right of same-sex couples to marry, are repealed.\\r
A 55-year-old man who beat his daughter over the head with a lump of concrete when she refused to go to his Mormon church \"does not understand what all the fuss is about,\" Hastings District Court has heard. Uluia Muliipu appeared in court after pleading guilty to one count of assault with intent to injure.
Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting \"death to the dictator\" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.
State media says an earthquake has rocked southwestern China and injured at least 336 people. The Xinhua News Agency said the magnitude-6.0 quake in Yunnan province damaged some 2,700 homes on Thursday night.
Viewers have complained about a new Channel 4 programme that features full frontal nudity at 12.30pm. Life Class: Today\'s Nude features different male and female models each day and encourages budding artists to sketch along at home as a tutor explains drawing and painting techniques.
Investigators said Eric Gardner, 24, threatened a young Muslim mother and her infant son at knife-point because of their race and religion. Detectives said Gardner yelled at the woman, cursing and making derogatory comments, including \"You Muslim people scare people when you wear that clothing.\"
To find the hardest hit countries, we created a misery indexof countries with the fastest shrinking economies, the worst inflation rates and diminishing purchasing power.
A woman being driven to Rhode Island’s mental hospital was struck by a bus transporting prisoners after she jumped out of a taxi and ran across the highway. The woman ran across the highway without her shirt on and police say she was struck by a bus carrying prisoners, presumably to court in Providence.
The man accused of killing a prostitute last month and then dumping her remains near Eatonville asked his fifth-grade son to help get rid of the body, records show.
A Brooklyn woman is in critical condition after her husband hacked her repeatedly with a meat cleaver in their Dyker Heights apartment yesterday morning. 54-year-old Shao Ling Ye was sweeping up during breakfast when, according to her husband, Youshening Huang, \"She swept over my feet and that really sparked it.\"