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Envoy hands over Pyongyang peace missive to Chinese president

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:58:46 -0400

BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

UK spy agencies defended over drummer soldier murder

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:28 -0400

LONDON - The British government has defended its spy agencies for failing to prevent murder of a soldier in London despite signs and revelations that the two suspects were well known to MI5. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said it was impossible to control everyone all the time. "Peers and MPs will do a thorough investigation in terms of what the security forces knew but I've seen ...

Vehicles, people plunge into river after bridge collapse

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:25 -0400

WASHINGTON - A handful of vehicles and some people plunged into a river after a more than half a century old bridge that links Seattle in the US with Canada collapsed, throwing the movement on the highway into disarray. Authorities said there were no deaths in the bridge collapse on the Skagit River in the US state of Washington. Three people were rescued and taken to hospitals, they said. ...

Another jewellery heist hits Cannes as $2.6 mn necklace stolen

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:38 -0400

CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place at ...

Amnesty laments lack of support for refugees globally

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:46:37 -0400

LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

June 28 to see News Corp split into two companies

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:56:04 -0400

WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...

Audit records of Chinese firms to be made accessible to US regulators

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:07 -0400

BEIJING - Chinese regulators Friday announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with their US counterparts giving American authorities increased access to documents from Chinese audit firms. The signing of the MOU between China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a significant ...

Investments being sought by Croatia for oil exploration in Adriatic Sea

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:42:23 -0400

ZAGREB/LONDON - Croatia, soon to become the 28th member of the European Union,- is looking to undiscovered oil and gas fields in the Adriatic Sea to revive its ailing economy, according to the country's president. Ivo Josipovic told CNN that Croatia is searching for partners in the energy sector to help reveal oil and gas "green fields" in the waters that separate the Balkan nations and ...

Fan fiction authors to find platform on Amazon

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:39:36 -0400

WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

Central bank of China to push forward market oriented reforms

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:38 -0400

BEIJING - China is planning to steadily push forward market-oriented reform in its interest rates and exchange rates mechanisms this year as part of the financial sector reforms to better serve the real economy, a central bank report said on Friday. The "China Financial Stability Report (2013) released by the People's Bank of China stressed that it would be steadily promoting the interest ...

IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:53:31 -0400

LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...

Bosnia President Freed From Jail

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:47:03 -0400

The president of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation has been freed from jail following his arrest last month on corruption charges. The Constitutional Court ruled on May 24 that Zivko Budimir and four co-accused aides all be released immediately. Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence ...

Anti-Israel activists crash London UEFA event

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:42:54 -0400

UEFA: Israel to host tourney despite PA pressure The UEFA dinner was attended by prominent figures including David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, who were reportedly stunned by the incident. Earlier in the day, pro-Palestinian activists from a group called "Red Card Israeli Racism" protested outside a UEFA Congress meeting at a London hotel, according to the report. Friday's events ...

In Syrias shadow Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:23:47 -0400

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama (R) hold a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, December 12, ...

Children killed in Pakistan explosion

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:19:53 -0400

Pakistani police say a gas-cylinder explosion inside a school bus has killed at least 17 children in eastern Pakistan. Mohammed Rasheed, a police officer, said seven children were also injured on Saturday when the faulty gas cylinder exploded on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. He says the dead and injured children were going to school at the time. Gujrat is located about 200km southeast ...

Guatemalas ex-president extradited to US

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:19:51 -0400

Guatemala has extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face charges of laundering $70m. Portillo was put on a plane on Friday under the escort of US agents. "Hasta luego (see you later), people of Guatemala," Portillo, 61, said, after describing his extradition as a "kidnapping" and accusing the Guatemalan government of breaking the law. "They ...

Life in the cross hairs

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:47:50 -0400

>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...

The Other Benghazi Scandal

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:44 -0400

Thanks to the solid reporting of The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes among others, we now have a pretty good picture of how the CIA-prepared "talking points" about the events in Benghazi evolved. A document that initially fingered extremist Islamist groups eventually transmogrified into pabulum that would not contradict Rice's storyline about an attack triggered by protests ...

Starving for a Beer

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:43 -0400

takes in its write-up is glib: Headlined "Kim Jong-Ale," it begins by tossing off a reference to North Korea as a country that "commonly experiences famines." But Thomas, the beer-o-phile, is the real scoundrel here. The first warning sign is that throughout the piece, he refers to North Korea as the "DPRK," the regime's preferred name for the country. (It ...

Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:17 -0400

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior ...

Riots spread outside Swedish capital

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:49 -0400

A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM – A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even ...

Frantic 911 calls reveal chaos in Okla. following tornado

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:13:00 -0400

Several 911 calls made in the wake of Monday's massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma are now being publicly heard, revealing the chaos that the city's residents had experienced from the devastation. On Friday, recordings of some of the emergency calls were made available by Moore police (click on the video above to hear). One of the frightening calls came from a man describing that a ...

Lebanon Hezbollah must not spark sectarian conflict

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:27:09 -0400

Daily Star reported him saying in reference to Hezbollah fighting in neighboring Syria. Suleimans remarks came following a major assault by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces on a rebel held town over the past week, which has drawn in fighters from Assad's Shi'ite allies Hezbollah, justifying fears that the conflict would cross borders at the heart of the Middle ...

Russia Gay Rights Activists To Defy Rally Ban

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:01 -0400

Activists will attempt to hold a gay pride march in Moscow despite being banned by authorities and warned they will be breaking the law. City officials have promised the action will be "thwarted" and protesters face being arrested and fined. But they say they are determined to make their voices heard. The torture and murder of a young man in Volgograd has focused attention on the ...

Syria opposition unity talks face specter of collapse

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:07:09 -0400

ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on ...

Guinea opposition protest turns violent

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:03:21 -0400

Clashes broke out between youths and police in the Guinean capital Conakry, where opposition activists had called a "ghost town" demonstration a day after protests turned violent. At least 15 people have been injured in the clashes, officials said on Friday. Unrest has been growing in the West African state over delays to a long-awaited parliamentary election, which is scheduled for ...

Tornado Alley Life in the cross hairs

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:46:17 -0400

New Computer Attacks Come From Iran Officials Say

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:22:36 -0400

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North Korea sends China a letter

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:18:53 -0400

A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae's three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang ...

Who needs the rat race when you can hatch a chicken in your bra The enchanting story of a couple who swapped the grind for the good life... and tested their arriage to the limit

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:40 -0400

It’s not always like this. There have been plenty of days when I’ve wondered why on earth my wife, Debbie, and I swapped our trendy London flat and our well-paid jobs as an estate agent and a solicitor for 20 acres of scruffy farmland on Exmoor and a life of ...

At last sleazy music DVDs are forced to carry age ratings as legal loophole that allow youngsters to buy explicit material is closed

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:38 -0400

There are already age restrictions on feature films but a range of pop videos, sports releases, religious and educational DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are classed as ...

Boy Scouts of America vote to lift ban on gay members - but reject appeals to accept gay leaders

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:37 -0400

The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections of members and ...

Husband tried to annul divorce AFTER his wifes death because he had no idea they had legally separated

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:36 -0400

The carpenter said his literacy skills are so bad he had no idea he had signed divorce papers which left him ‘with absolutely no capital’ following her death from lung and brain cancer at the age of 71 in ...

Revealed The secret tapes of the orgy-loving playboy driven to suicide by the Profumo scandal...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:35 -0400

The Stephen Ward I knew did, indeed, have many facets to his complex character, yet the full picture of the real victim of the Profumo scandal, which shocked British society 50 years ago, has never really ...

Tim Curry 67 recovering at his LA home after suffering a major stroke

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:34 -0400

Few details were available about the stroke last night, but sources close to the actor denied suggestions that the stroke had made it difficult for him to ...

Googles deadly web of poison and hatred

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:33 -0400

Google's transgressions, it seems, are greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. This cannot be allowed to continue. The public needs protecting from the dark side of the ...

Workman finds $100000 first edition Superman comic book while renovating Minnesota home

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:31 -0400

'That was a $75,000 tear': Man who found rare first edition Superman comic book worth nearly $200,000 RIPPED it while fighting with a relative over ...

She used Twitter to win fame - now its destroyed her

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:31 -0400

Three years ago, political commentator Andrew Neil asked Sally Bercow whether her Twitter pronouncements were ‘provocative’ and might lead her to say ‘something you ...

Why Drummer Rigbys killers should be charged with treason

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:29 -0400

Although we think of treason as a medieval crime — associated with gruesome punishments such as hanging, drawing and quartering or boiling in oil — the last trial for such an offence happened less than 70 years ...

My journey into the hell that is internet child porn We asked AMANDA PLATELL to view the websites that twisted the mind of little Tias killer

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:28 -0400

Pictures of a sweet youngster with pigtails and round spectacles dance across my office computer screen. I had typed the words ‘little girls in glasses’ into Google and clicked through the images which popped ...

Man swept into sea from yacht rescued after fellow sailor calls his BUILDERS MERCHANT because he could not understand French coastguard

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:27 -0400

His colleague on the 32ft yacht Caprice could not understand the French coastguard, so called his Crediton builders merchant - who raised the alarm with Brixham ...

Double stabbing Man jailed for 12 years for murdering stranger who disturbed him while he was having a bath

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:26 -0400

Cardiff Crown Court heard that Worvell was playing loud music and taking a bath when Mr Sutton and his friend Kyle Harris, 18, presumed there was a party in his ...

Delivery woman runs herself over three times with her own car in bizarre accident

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:25 -0400

The woman had been making her regular newspaper delivery in Trois-Rivieres earlier this week, when her automatic car slipped into reverse as she got ...

Mother-of-four jailed for six years for killing woman while driving in a fast and furious manner after row with her boyfriend

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:24 -0400

A mother-of-four who killed a woman in a car crash while driving in a 'fast and furious' manner following a row with her boyfriend was jailed for six years ...

Pensioner dies after hospital staff gave him penicillin injection he was allergic to

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:24 -0400

Pensioner with penicillin allergy dies after being given injection containing the drug 'because hospital staff didn't move Post-it note to check medical ...

Traffic warden jailed for six months for handing out bogus parking tickets to former colleagues after being made redundant

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:23 -0400

A corrupt traffic warden who issued nine bogus tickets against a former colleague during a ‘campaign of bullying’ has today (Fri) been jailed for six ...

Daniel Hickling Workman who blew house of its foundations after botched repair job is spared jail after he said he thought he was working on a water pipe not a gas supply

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:22 -0400

An incompetent workman who caused a gas explosion that blew a mansion off its foundations after botching a simple repair job was today given a suspended jail ...

Women with tattoos seen as easier by men - theyll approach them quicker and chat for longer

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:21 -0400

They really ARE tramp stamps (say the boys): Women with tattoos seen as ‘easier’ and men will approach them quicker, chat for longer ... and expect to get ...

Maybe sex doesnt sell after all Prostitutes going out of business as they struggle with rising rent costs and energy bills

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:16:20 -0400

Many sex workers are now saying its almost impossible to make a full time living out of prostitution with rising rents and energy costs and a reduced demand for ...

Alberta trucker involved in Washington state bridge collapse

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:54 -0400

Local residents line the river banks to look at a span of highway bridge sitting in the Skagit River May 24, 2013 after collapsing near the town of Mt Vernon, Washington late Thursday. REUTERS/Cliff ...

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos Federal Judge Rules

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:53 -0400

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with a reporter outside city jail in this May 3, 2010, file photo. (PAUL J. ...

Judge rules against Americas toughest sheriff in racial profiling lawsuit

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:59:52 -0400

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement ...

Stone Temple Pilots sue its former singer

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:25 -0400

LOS ANGELES The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs. A lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles accuses Weiland of being chronically late to concerts while the group was together and having his lawyer attempt to interfere with the ...

The Saturday Profile Kilian Kleinschmidt Calm Boss at Center of a Syrian Refugee Camps Chaos

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:52:21 -0400

ZAATARI, Jordan ...

Healthy 5-pound gorilla born at central Ohio zoo

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:20 -0400

This Thursday, May 23, 2013 photo released by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows a gorilla baby. The gorilla baby was born Thursday at the zoo and will be joining 16 other of the large primates. (AP Photo/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Grahm S. ...

Raw Tightrope Walk Between Cathedral Spires

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:15:55 -0400

An Austrian daredevil on Friday became the first man to walk a tightrope strung between the two towers of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna's most famous landmark. (May ...

Is this Britains youngest victim of party drug Dr Death Tests show teenager who died had traces of super strength Ecstasy in her blood

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:15 -0400

Yesterday police revealed that traces of PMA – also known as pink ecstasy – had been found in her system. The drug, nicknamed Dr Death, is sold to revellers for as little ...

Hospital staff shave 70-year-old moustache from sergeant major 86 and say he is lucky to be receiving care

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:15 -0400

For not only did a nurse forcibly shave off his moustache – a fixture for nearly 70 years – they then told him he was ‘lucky’ to be receiving care at ...

Sweden in flames As gangs of migrants riot for five nights running... the Utopian boats of a multicultural success story turn to ashes

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:13 -0400

It is supposed to be the model multicultural state. But Sweden is facing problems of its own after gangs of immigrants spent a fifth consecutive night rioting in ...

Now force Google to block sick websites of hatred After Woolwich horror MPs demand action from internet giants

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:12 -0400

Police have seized computers since Wednesday’s atrocity and are still investigating if the two fanatics who beheaded the soldier were indoctrinated by online terror videos. Michael Adebolajo, 28, was radicalised by a banned extremist group whose members use the internet to recruit impressionable young ...

Madeleine McCann Was Maddie snatched by the monster who killed this little lookalike British detectives uncover dramatic new lead... so why are the Portuguese refusing to investigate

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:11 -0400

Have you seen me? asks the little girl in the poster. The youngster is Madeleine McCann; not the Madeleine we all remember, but Madeleine as she might look today as a ...

Is this country mad Why is Anjem Choudary whose poisonous teachings influenced the Woolwich killers free to draw benefits and tour BBC studios spouting murderous hatred against Britain

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:10 -0400

As the awful events unfolded on the streets of Woolwich on Wednesday, the mobile phone secreted inside the black Islamic robes worn by Anjem Choudary — the self-styled Sheik of East London — soon started ...

Why developing MORE brain cells can means we forget the early days of our childhood

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:09 -0400

It is a question that has long puzzled scientists and psychologists: Why do we forget our early childhood, the most carefree – and arguably happiest – time of our ...

We ARE angry about our GPs SANDRA PARSONS lambasted doctors who wont visit out of hours... and the response from patients and NHS staff was overwhelming

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:08 -0400

My column on Wednesday, highlighting the fact that patients who can’t get out-of-hours care or an appointment with their GP are now turning in despair to A&E departments, provoked an extraordinarily passionate ...

Something youd like to hide Wikileaks Website publishes transcript of documentary about itself with notes pointing out supposed factual errors

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:06 -0400

The cyber-publishers appear so desperate to discredit an upcoming documentary about themselves they have taken the unusual step of publishing the entire script online complete with notes pointing out ...

Did George Michael hurl HIMSELF from his Range Rover at 70mph on the M1

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:05 -0400

Maybe even George himself is struggling to come up with a rational explanation of how he came to fall out of his chauffeur-driven Range Rover as it hurtled up the M1 last ...

Woolwich attack He was friendly and polite Hairdresser ex-girlfriend of terror suspect says Adebolajo was a normal regular boy

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:04 -0400

School friends of Adebolajo say he lived a Western lifestyle in his teens, growing up in Essex as a Christian with hard-working Nigerian immigrant ...

Queen Monarchs passion for horses celebrated in new documentary as she spends birthday watching thoroughbreds being trained

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:03 -0400

Some celebrate their birthday by taking in a show or flying abroad for a city break, but this year the Queen spent hers watching thoroughbred horses being ...

Police apologise after closing M6 to investigate van with bomb on board... but it was only a minor petrol theft

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:02 -0400

The Police were forced to issue an embarrassing apology to thousands of delayed Bank Holiday travellers after closing the busy M6 motorway in both directions to deal with a terrorist threat which eventually turned out to be just a minor case of fuel ...

From wrong mortgage to living next to an airfield How one in five homebuyers are plagued by regrets

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:01 -0400

Nearly one in five Britons say they made a mistake buying their house and aren't happy with the deal they have ended up with, a report shows. Posed by ...

Lee Rigby seen on CCTV Last hours of soldier murdered in the street by Islamic fanatics

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:00 -0400

Drummer Lee was a regular at the Kebab Ye takeaway in Frances Street, Woolwich, south-east London, and would visit to order food at least three times a ...

The Roma gipsy beggars of Park Lane 30 Romanians camp out with soiled duvets and cardboard boxes in exclusive London street

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:57 -0400

The 52-year-old Roma gipsy is one of about 30 Romanians sleeping on a now grubby patch of grass on a central reservation in London’s Park Lane near Marble ...

Gas reserves were so close to running dry there were just SIX HOURS of supply left

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:57 -0400

Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate, the property portfolio managed by the Queen, said: ‘We really only had six hours’ worth of gas left in storage as a buffer [at the end of March]. If it had run any lower it would have meant interruptions to ...

Abi Titmuss Ten years after that sex storm the former model and John Leslie are singletons at opposite ends of the country

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:55 -0400

Miss Titmuss, 37, made a fortune as a glamour model after the scandal and worked as a presenter on a porn channel. She has since reinvented herself as an actress, appearing in Casualty last ...

Gizmo that stops spiders hiding in your wellies... and other bloomin ingenious gadgets at the Chelsea Flower Show

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:55 -0400

60 years of the Queen at Chelsea: As one of Her Majesty's favourite events celebrates its 100th year, FEMAIL looks back at some of her happiest times at the world famous Flower ...

Why team sports really do improve grades Link between self-esteem and better performance in the classroom

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:54 -0400

Teenagers who belong to sports clubs - as opposed to activities such as drama or debating - are also more likely to complete their education and enter higher ...

Astronauts will LIVE on the moon by 2020 Nasa report claims

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:53 -0400

Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday ...

Oxford University students face being sent down after goading woman undergraduate to show her breasts during booze-fuelled party

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:51 -0400

A group of Oxford University students are facing expulsion after they goaded a female undergraduate to bare her breasts during a wild alcohol-fuelled ...

Jilted husband Andrew Parsons given life sentence for murdering his wife Janee after stabbing her 17 times

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:50 -0400

Andrew Parsons, 38, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, beat his wife Janee, 31, and plunged a large kitchen knife into her body 17 times after their marriage broke down when she began seeing another ...

Do they think theyre the fashion police Cyclist pulled over by officers because he wasnt wearing Lycra

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:48 -0400

An officer considered Mr Burton’s preferred outfit of scruffy jeans and a t-shirt not to be the attire of a serious cyclist – and thought he must have stolen the high-end bicycle he was ...

The REAL angry Birds Archaeologists find most aggresive giant birds

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:48 -0400

A now extinct giant flightless pigeon from Mauritius used its small but deadly wings to fight off competitors and communicate with mates, according to new research published this ...

Footballers found NOT GUILTY of sex attack on teenage girl who claimed she was assaulted in a hotel bedroom

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:47 -0400

Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their ...

Schoolgirls horror as she wakes up after a fox jumped on her chest and bared its teeth at her

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:45 -0400

Vermin terror: Jim and Isobelle Barter with dogs Frankie (left) and Sky (right). Isobelle was horrified to discover a fox on her bed in the middle of the ...

Nine-year-old boy who burgled a house and went for a joyride in the owners car is too young to be prosecuted

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:43 -0400

The tiny tearaway who can't be locked up: Nine-year-old boy who 'burgled a house and went for a joyride in the owner's car' is too young to be ...

Top female judge calls for end to frenetic working hours for women so they can spend more time with their families

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:41 -0400

The mother-of-two said that women were put off becoming judges or senior partners in law firms as the hours are not conducive to a family life, reported The ...

Gabrielle Molina Girl 12 who hanged herself in her bedroom was called a slut and told she looked like she had Downs Syndrome

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:40 -0400

A 12-year-old girl who killed herself after relentless online bullying was branded a slut and told she looked like she had Downs Syndrome, her family has ...

Facebook and Google set to face off in billion dollar battle to buy satnav startup Waze

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:39 -0400

Waze uses satellite signals from members' smartphones to 'crowdsource' maps and traffic data, and can run on Apple or Android handsets and ...

British zoo worker mauled to death by tiger

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:06:37 -0400

File picture of a Sumatran tiger. A British zoo worker was mauled to death by a tiger at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness, northwest England. (AFP PHOTO/CARL ...

Sixth night of Stockholm riots as Britain US issue warnings

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:06:36 -0400

Stockholm experienced a sixth straight night of riots early Saturday, with cars torched in several immigrant-dominated suburbs, as Britain and the United States warned against travelling to the ...

Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:51:33 -0400

1 of 3. A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, ...

Jersey Shore shop owners reopen for Memorial Day

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:08 -0400

(CBS News) SEA BRIGHT, N.J. - Seven months after an epic storm, the Jersey Shore is open for business. In Seaside Heights Friday, Governor Chris Christie cut a symbolic 5-1/2-mile-long ribbon to open the beach season following the damage done by superstorm ...

The forecaster who sounded the alarm for Moore Okla.

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:08 -0400

CBS News (CBS News) The massive tornado in Oklahoma on Monday killed a total of 24 people. The toll would likely have been much greater, were it not for the early warning put out by the National Weather Service. We meet the man who sounded the alarm. A video shows Monday's twister charging into Moore, Oklahoma. The funnel cloud morphed within moments into a historic EF-5 tornado, with ...

Survivor of KKK Baptist Church bombing I had to forgive

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:07 -0400

(CBS News) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- A turning point in the Civil Rights movement came 50 years ago when members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed. And nationwide outrage led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act one year later. Today, President Obama signed a law to honor the victims-; Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and ...

Space date with Leo DiCaprio auctions for $1.5 million

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:05 -0400

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on May 1, 2013, in New ...

FBI identifies consulate attack suspects

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:47:38 -0400

The FBI has identified five men it believes were involved in last year's deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. Washington has not officially asked the Libyan government to apprehend the men, but Al Jazeera has learned that US officials have tried to get powerful armed groups to co-operate. The US initially said that the violence was in response to a video posted online that was ...

Zoo worker killed by tiger

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:43:58 -0400

A British zoo worker mauled in a tiger attack has died of her injuries, police said. Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked Friday (local time) in the big cats enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness, northwest England. The woman, who is from the local area, was flown by air ambulance to a hospital where she later died. Cumbria Constabulary police force and the local authorities ...

For Obamas Global Vision Daunting Problems

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:38:01 -0400

WASHINGTON ...

Judge Ariz. sheriffs office profiles Latinos

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:05:38 -0400

A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and ...

Zoo worker has died after being mauled by tiger in front of visitors as she fed it in animal enclosure

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:11 -0400

It is thought she had been feeding the tiger or cleaning out the cage when the animal pounced.A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service said paramedics were on the scene within nine ...

Sorry... we thought you were dead Death notice blunder left expats friends grieving for thirty years

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:10 -0400

In fact it was her mother Pamela who had passed away, but when Christine arranged for the death notice to be published the women’s names were ...

Robert Mugabe and family star in reality TV programme and use opportunity to call Tony Blair a liar and sing praises of Lady Thatcher

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:09 -0400

At home with the Mugabes: Zimbabwe president and family star in reality TV programme and use opportunity to call Tony Blair a liar and sing praises of Lady ...

Sweden riots Immigrants torch primary schools as Stockholm smoulders from five days of rioting

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:08 -0400

Emergency services were called to 70 separate incidents, including two torched primary schools, burning shops and a destroyed library building also housing a local police ...

Off the Charts S.P. Has More Than Doubled Under Obama

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:25 -0400

IN the 84 years that the Standard & ...

US Turkey Qatar seek urgent UN rights debate on Syria

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:09 -0400

The United States, Turkey and Qatar called Friday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN's top human rights body next week, citing the escalating conflict and the regime's assault on the central town of ...

Syria opposition demands goodwill gestures from Assad

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:08 -0400

Syria's opposition called Friday on President Bashar al-Assad to prove it is working for a transition of power in the war-torn country, as they gathered in Istanbul to discuss a US-Russian initiative for ...

Death becomes her Meet the very modern mortician who champions cool funerals

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:53:44 -0400

Ever considered baking a loved one's remains into a cake or putting their ashes in fireworks? If so, talk to Caitlin Doughty, champion of the alternative death ...

Jindal Obamas big government thinking

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:52:46 -0400

>Editor's note: Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is governor of Louisiana.(CNN) -- The latest problems with the IRS witch hunt, the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press, the conflicting Benghazi stories and disastrous attempts to enforce Obamacare may all seem unrelated, but they are not. Each of these events is the direct byproduct of two central philosophies of the Obama ...

Additional Embassy Guards Will Come at Steep Price Each

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:23:31 -0400

WASHINGTON ...

Taliban Attack U.N. Affiliates Compound in Kabul Testing Afghan Security Forces

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:08:11 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Happy Hour Links A Populist Party or a Business Lobby

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:05:40 -0400

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Reversal of Rios Montt verdict in Guatemala sparks criticism of genocide charge

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:58:57 -0400

GUATEMALA CITY - The overturning this week of former military dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction on charges stemming from Guatemala’s brutal civil war has created a surprising consensus among critics on both the left and the right: Prosecutors badly overreached when they tried to pin accusations of genocide on the 86-year-old former president. Despite sharp divisions over ...

UK WEATHERTheres a surprise Showers will spoil the Bank Holiday in coldest spring for 30 years

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:53:30 -0400

It's certainly traditional, if rather miserable. The bank holiday weekend got off to a soggy start yesterday as the Met Office said this spring will be the coldest for more than 30 ...

Syria regime to attend peace talks Russia

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:52:31 -0400

Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed to attend an international peace conference on the crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in ...

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde evades fraud accusation

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:47:04 -0400

Ms Lagarde, 57, spent 24 hours over two days answering questions about her role in a EUR403m (344m) compensation award to the disgraced tycoon, Bernard Tapie, while she was French finance minister in 2008.The Republican Court of Justice, which examines alleged wrong-doing by ministers and ex-ministers, decided last night to make Ms Lagarde an "assisted witness" in the case, rather than ...

FDA 7 infections linked to Tenn. compounding pharmacy

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:35:41 -0400

WASHINGTON Federal health officials are investigating reports of complications caused by possibly contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, ...

Atty. New Trayvon Martin texts photos are red herrings

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:35:41 -0400

Slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. (CBS/AP) New evidence including text messages and photos of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin are "irrelevant red herrings" and "a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool," an attorney for Martin's family reportedly said in a statement, according ...

1 block 2 tornadoes

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:17:51 -0400

Podcast -- Obama The War is Over

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:57:06 -0400

Will my grandkids fight our forever war

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:42 -0400

>Editor's note: Will Bunch is the author of "October 1, 2011: The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge," Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future," as well as "The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama. " He is senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, where he writes the Attytood blog.(CNN) ...

IN PICTURES 25000 hasidim attend Belz wedding

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:47:47 -0400

25,000 ultra Orthodox Jews attended one of the largest weddings Jerusalem has ever seen this week, when Belz Hasidic dynasty rebbe, Rabbi Tissachar ...

British Village Protests Plan for Shale Gas Drilling

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:03 -0400

Balcombe, England ...

Woolwich murder suspect is probation officers son who chatted with his neighbours about Jamie Oliver recipes

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:43:52 -0400

London-born Adebowale was told to ‘disappear’ after he was caught up with a local gang known as the Woolwich Boys, and underwent a dramatic change of ...

Frigide Barjot The French anti-gay marriage leader under attack

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:37:40 -0400

John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...

Museums Confront the Skeletons in Their Closets

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:33:51 -0400

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Camping Is it pure bliss or horror

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:29:21 -0400

>Editor's note: This is the second CNN.com Escape Debate, a series that examines the cultural splits within travel, and why travelers divide along certain lines.(CNN) -- Jared Kennedy remembers waking up in the middle of the night to creatures scratching at his tent on every side. Kennedy was just 15 when he went on his last camping trip. His parents put him in a pup tent with his dog, Lucky, ...

Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:27:57 -0400

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ...

Small plane crash kills 3 on Spanish island pilot badly injured

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:29 -0400

MADRID - Spanish officials say the pilot of a small plane carrying three passengers is the only person to survive a crash on the island of Mallorca. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane took off from the island's Son Bonet de Marratxi airfield just after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) Friday, failed to gain altitude and crashed into a nearby field, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said. Two men and ...

One WTC workers at dizzying heights

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:24 -0400

The World Trade Center has tweeted a photo of its workers placing the spire on top of One World Trade Center tower, at incredible heights of 1,700 feet. The spectacular photo, taken on May 10th, shows the brave iron workers installing the final sections on top of One WTC, with New York City sprawled beneath them. The new tower, which sits at Ground Zero, stands at 1,776 feet tall including the ...

Toronto mayor I dont smoke crack cocaine

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:23 -0400

TORONTO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used crack. Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after close allies released a letter urging him to address the purported video. The video apparently shows Ford ...

Jury foreman Jodi Arias not a good witness

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:23 -0400

Jodi Arias reacts May 8 after she was found of guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in his suburban Phoenix ...

Watch Obama forgets to salute while boarding Marine One

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:22 -0400

President Obama boarded Marine One to depart for the U.S. Naval Academy today but forgot to salute the marine standing by the helicopter, as presidents have traditionally done. After initially boarding the helicopter, Mr. Obama briefly disembarked to exchange a few words with the marine standing ...

Syria opposition seeks to unify as talks get...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:37 -0400

Demonstrators shout slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul on Friday. ...

Michelle Nunn to Run for Senate in Georgia

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:47:57 -0400

Georgia Democrats may finally have a candidate for next year's Senate race to succeed Republican Saxby Chambliss. Michelle Nunn, an Atlanta businesswoman and the daughter of former senator Sam Nunn, is "actively preparing" for a Senate ...

IMF chief Lagarde avoids charges in French payout scandal

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:46:46 -0400

PARIS (AFP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges Friday but was named an "assisted witness" after French prosecutors grilled her for two days over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister."My status as assisted witness is not a surprise," she told reporters."I have always acted in the best public interest and in accordance with ...

Wiener from joke to mayor