A boat sank in the western Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, killing at least 73 people, according to reports.The International Committee of the Red Cross says the cargo boat was carrying passengers,...
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Iran to build ten new uranium enrichment plants
Iran's announced earlier today that it plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants. Iranian media reported that the Cabinet approved the construction of the plants just two days after the International...
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Soviet statue returns to Moscow
On Saturday, Worker and Kolkhoznitsa, a giant statue of Soviet times, was returned to a pedestal in Moscow, Russia. It was done after a long five-year restoration process since the monument was dismantled...
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Prime Minister of Vanuatu loses seat over paperwork error
Edward Natapei, the Prime Minister of Vanuatu has lost his position and parliamentary seat over a paper work blunder. Natapei was in Trinidad and Tobago at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and his staff failed to file the paperwork that notified...
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Five dead, ten critically injured after van carrying children rolls on Louisiana highway
Five people are dead and ten more are in a critical condition after a minivan packed with children rolled over on Louisiana's Interstate 10 highway yesterday. The vehicle's driver lost control after a...
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Obama declares tougher emission targets before Copenhagen summit
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international...
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Suspected bomb derails Moscow-St Petersburg train, kills at least 25
An express train travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg in Russia derailed yesterday, leaving at least 25 people dead and 100 more wounded. Authorities suspect a terrorist attack after a possible bomb crater was found beside the line.File map of Russia's...
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Zimbabwean cargo plane crashes in Shanghai; three dead
A cargo aircraft registered in Zimbabwe crashed today at Shanghai International Airport in China. Three of the crew have been killed.Another four people were taken to the Pudong Xinqu People's Hospital after the plane went down on takeoff and burst into...
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Ferry capsizes in Bangladesh, at least five dead and 50 missing
A ferry has sunk in Bangladesh earlier today, killing at least five people, according to authorities. About fifty more people were missing after the incident.Police said that the accident occurred as the vessel, called the MV Coco-4, came near a river...
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Namibia votes in presidential election
Voters are heading to the polls today in Namibia to elect a president and parliament The ruling South West Africa People's Organization is expected to win presidential and parliamentary elections, but a new opposition party is mounting a challenge.Voters...
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UN nuclear chief says negotiations with Iran at 'dead end'
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said earlier on Thursday that the organization has reached a "dead end" in a probe into Iran's nuclear program. The IAEA's board is meeting to consider a resolution condemning Iran's...
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Golfer Tiger Woods injured in car crash
American golfer Tiger Woods has been injured in a car crash near his home in Orlando, Florida. Woods was reported to have been leaving his home around 2:30 a.m. (EST) in his 2009 Cadillac Escalade, when he collided with a fire hydrant and a tree down...
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77 dead after flooding in Saudi Arabia
The worst flooding in 27 years in Saudi Arabia has left at least 77 people dead, and dozens more could be missing. The floods came after torrential rains on Wednesday.The rainstorms mainly affected western parts of the country, including the cities of...
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Uninvited couple passes Secret Service checkpoint, crashes White House state dinner
A couple entered a White House state dinner when they were univited, passing through several layers of security, and socialized with high-profile guests Tuesday night.Tareq and Michaele Salahi from northern Virginia arrived at the party at approximately...
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Jordanian king dissolves parliament, calls for general election two years ahead of schedule
The king of Jordan, King Abdullah, dissolved the country's parliament on Tuesday, half-way through its four year term, and called for early general elections to be held, up to two years ahead of schedule.The monarch did not immediately provide a reason...
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Israel announces 10 month halt to settlement construction in West Bank
The prime minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, told a news conference earlier today that there will be a ten-month stop in the construction of new settlement housing in the West Bank. The Israeli cabinet approved the move by a margin of eleven to...
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Death of Kentucky census worker considered suicide
Kentucky State Police said yesterday that the September 12 death of census worker Bill Sparkman was suicide. His body was found naked in a Clay County, Kentucky cemetery, with "Fed" written on his chest and his census identification taped to his neck....
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School closed after five-year-old boy dies from suspected swine flu in Buckinghamshire, England
Wednesday, November 25, 2009A five-year-old boy has been suspected to have died from the H1N1 swine flu virus in Buckinghamshire, England. The boy came from Emberton School, which now has just 29 pupils attending.Health tests are currently being carried...
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Sakurai Prize awarded for Higgs boson theories
Wednesday, November 25, 2009The American Physical Society has awarded its 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to six scientists for their contributions to theories on the origin of mass, including the key concepts of the Higgs boson...
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British Climatic Research Unit's emails hacked
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Unknown individuals gained access to a server of University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). As a result, around thirteen years of email correspondence between...
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Ritual sacrifice in Nepal sees 320,000 animals slaughtered to Hindu goddess
Tuesday, November 24, 2009In a tribute to Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power, a Nepalese festival began today with the mass sacrifice of 20,000 buffalo in the village of Bariyapur. Shortly after, 300,000...
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Reverend Billy Joe Daugherty dies at the age of 57
Tuesday, November 24, 2009Founder of the Victory Christian Centre, Billy Joe Daugherty died aged 57 on Sunday 4:40 am. This followed a short battle with lymphoma. The death was announced by church officials during morning services that day.Adam Sanders,...
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Benet Academy, Illinois students support classmate with leukemia
Tuesday, November 24, 2009Students at Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, United States, have raised money and offered support for Jenna McKeown, a classmate who was recently diagnosed with leukemia.Miss McKeown, a 17-year-old senior from Naperville, was...
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Four US, eight Afghan troops killed in Afghanistan after attacks
Tuesday, November 24, 2009International security forces in Afghanistan stated today that recent attacks in the country's south and east have killed four US and eight Afghan soldiers.A NATO statement said that a bomb killed one US soldier in eastern Afghanistan...
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UK policeman convicted of murdering WPC fiancée who died after staged car crash
A policeman from the United Kingdom plead guilty to the murder of his fiancée, a female police constable. PC Martin Forshaw, 27, used a steel hammer to bludgeon WPC Claire Howarth, 31, before placing her in her car and staging an accident.Forshaw's intent...
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Italian Air Force transport wreck kills five
A transport aircraft belonging to the Italian Air Force has crashed near Pisa. All five on board the C-130 Hercules were killed.The aircraft was on a training mission when it went down onto a railway line close to a military airport. It had been approaching...
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Former Iranian vice-president sentenced to six years; released on bail pending appeal
Former Iranian vice-president Mohammed Ali Abtahi has been released on bail pending appeal after being sentenced to six years in prison on Saturday for his part in the protests following the presidential elections in June."Abtahi was sentenced to six...
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Australian sport may be on the cusp of change
The Independent Sport Panel Report, setup to look into sports funding, was published in Australia last week, prompting debate and speculation for the future of sport in the country.Australian rules football...
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Canadian loses health benefits after company finds joyful Facebook pictures
A 29-year-old woman from Quebec in Canada claims to have lost her long-term health care benefits she was receiving for depression, after her insurance company discovered pictures of her on Facebook smiling and having fun.Nathalie Blanchard alleges that...
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Afghan Member of Parliament escapes assasination attempt
Afghan police have said that a member of parliament (MP) escaped an assassination attempt on Friday night near the capital of Kabul. Five bodyguards, however, died.An Afghan district police chief told the Voice of America news agency that a remote-controlled...
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Australian Football League to hold match in China
The Australian Football League (AFL) yesterday announced that it would hold an exhibition game in Shanghai, China. Brisbane will play Melbourne at Jiangwan Sports Centre in the Yangpu District.AFL game development head David Matthews told reporters,...
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2010 Sakurai Prize awarded for 1964 Higgs Boson theory work
In recognition for the discovery of the Higgs Boson and Higgs mechanism, the American Physical Society has awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to Drs. C. R. Hagen, University...
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Indonesian ferry sinks, at least nine dead
Reports from Indonesia now say at least nine people were killed and over 200 rescued today, after a ferry sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.The Dumai Express 10 was sailing from Batam island to...
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Iraqi lawmakers delay vote on electoral law
An Iraqi parliament session aimed at resolving deadlock on electoral law required for general elections in January ended without agreement yesterday.Lawmakers were expected to vote on the much-delayed law, but parliamentary officials said the proceeding...
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Saudi Arabia fears Hajj swine flu outbreak as four pilgrims die
As the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca gets underway, Saudi Arabian authorities have expressed concern swine flu could impact pilgrims. Four, with underlying health issues, have already died.Two men and a woman in their seventies and a seventeen-year-old...
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Bomb explosions in northeastern India kill at least seven
Two bomb explosions in the northeastern Assam state of India have killed at least seven people and injured 25 more today.The blasts, which happened within several minutes of each other, occurred outside of a police station in the town of Nalbari, 70...
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Astronaut's baby born 200 miles below him
American astronaut, Randolph Bresnik, is in orbit over 200 miles above the Earth, where he learned of the birth of his daughter Abigail. Lieutenant Colonel Bresnik becomes only the second man to have...
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Republican groups suspected in gun battle with, failed bombing of, Northern Irish police
In two separate incidents police in Northern Ireland have come under attack. Both are believed by authorities to stem from organisations linked to the Irish Republican Army. The two incidents, one an attempted car bombing in Belfast, and the other a...
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Pirates seize Greek-owned ship off coast of Yemen
A Kenyan maritime official said today that pirates hijacked a Greek-owned bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden, near Yemen.Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program said the ship, named the Red Sea Spirit was taken on Thursday, but...
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Ex-cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov dies; Soviet space pioneer was 83
Pioneering Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov has died aged 83. A statement by the Russian Space Agency declared that he died of "unspecified causes" last Saturday in Moscow.Feoktistov was important in the early development of Soviet space travel...
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US healthcare bill passes Senate vote
The US Senate, by a vote of 60 to 39, has decided to begin debate on legislation crafted by majority Democrats to reform the country's health care system.The measure, opposed by Republican senators, was voted on Saturday evening. One Republican Senator,...
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Winfrey announces end of 'Oprah'
Oprah Winfrey has announced that she will retire from her talk show on September 9, 2011, during season 25. Winfrey made the announcement on Friday's broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Suppressing tears, she explained that careful thought and prayer...
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