Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old Al-Qaeda Inspired French gunman, who confessed to killing seven people in the city of Toulouse in southwest France, is dead after being shot in the head by a police sniper during a final dramatic shootout with French police which marks the end of a 31-hour standoff with hundreds of French anti-terror […]
A major earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, resulting to panic as it damaged a lot of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like “trampolines”. Office workers fled into the street when the 7.4-magnitude quake shook Mexico City for more than a minute. Phone lines went down, buildings were evacuated, traffics worsen and […]
Anticipation is heightening for the Duchess of Cambridge’s first public speech, which is scheduled on Monday at a hospice the duchess recently became a patron of. The duchess accepted the position of Royal Patron of EACH in January after visiting a hospice in Milton last fall. The duchess is scheduled to visit The Treehouse, a […]
United Parcel Service Inc. announced on Monday it has agreed to buy TNT Express NV for $6.77 billion (€5.16 billion) in a deal supported by TNT’s boards. UPS’s cash offer of €9.5 ($12.51) per share for TNT – Europe’s second-largest express delivery company after DHL – comes a month after TNT management turned down a […]
North Korea’s announcement on Friday that it would launch a long-range rocket carrying a “working” satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth next month, stirred and sparked condemnation from the United States and other countries, saying that the action would be in breach of a U.N. resolution. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary […]
Prince Harry of Wales has told a TV interviewer that royal life is no fairytale and sometimes he and Prince William wish they were just normal instead of royals. Harry spoke to CBS News after a 10-day trip to the Caribbean and South America to represent his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, at Diamond Jubilee celebrations. […]
A majority of Japanese are against the idea of restarting the nuclear power plants currently shut for maintenance, a survey by the Asahi newspaper showed on Tuesday, reflecting the people’s distrust towards atomic power after the 2011 tsunami-triggered nuclear crisis. The government plans to restart some of the nuclear plants to avoid a potential power […]
Iran executed at least 670 people last year, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. Based on the report, most of those executed had allegedly committed drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law, Ahmed Shaheed, the investigator and former Maldives foreign minister, also reported a wide range of violations by Iran […]
Stocks went flat on Monday as economic data in China and this week’s Federal Open Market Committee announcement gave investors reason to pause. China’s trade balance alarmingly plunged $31.5 billion in February as imports swamped exports leaving the largest deficit in at least a decade. The data cast has tainted the global economic growth prospects […]
Through a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake which resulted to tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered the world’s trust. The strong earthquake that hit Japan’s northeast coast a year ago, unleashed a wall of water that killed […]
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