One person was killed, eleven were injured and more than 100 houses collapsed in an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale in southwest China’s Sichuan Province early Sunday.
The casualties were reported in three villages of Moxi town, Suining City in eastern Sichuan after the quake jolted the area at 5:36 a.m. (Beijing time), according [...]
Two US soldiers who died in eastern Afghanistan on Friday were shot dead by an Afghan interpreter, it has emerged.
A Nato official said the translator gunned down the US soldiers before other soldiers shot him dead at an outpost in Wardak province.
A US military official told Reuters news agency the attacker seemed to be a [...]
A woman who was found murdered at her home in South Yorkshire was drowned in the bath, detectives believe.
Agnieszka Dziegielewska’s body was discovered in the bathroom of her flat in Horsefair Close, Temperance Street, Swinton, on Thursday evening.
Det Supt Colin Fisher told BBC News he believed that Ms Dziegielewska, 30, let her killer into her [...]
Michael-Jackson’s kids are planning to pay tribute to their late father when the King Of Pop is posthumously honoured at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
The ceremony’s organisers announced earlier this year that a spectacular star-studded 3D performance will be laid on to recognise the achievements of the Thriller great, who died last June.
The 3D clip [...]
A charity album featuring performances from the Hope For Haiti Now telethon has gone straight to number one in the US album chart.
The compilation album is the first digital-only release to top the Billboard 200 chart.
The album sold 171,000 copies, music sales tracker Nielsen Soundscan said.
The disaster relief telethon, featuring performances from stars including Jay-Z, [...]
A woman has been arrested after the bodies of two young children were found in a car in East Sussex.
Police said the 43-year-old has been held on suspicion of murder following the discovery in Mill Close, Heathfield, at 11.46am.
She was arrested after visiting Heathfield police station to report “an incident”, Sussex Police said.
Officers subsequently found [...]
Two British soldiers have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The soldiers, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died in the blast near Sangin in Helmand Province on Friday.
Their families have been informed.
Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: “They were on a foot patrol protecting [...]
The recent 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has hit Haiti could mean thousands of people dead beneath collapsed structures.
The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is not equipped to deal with disasters like this and will be needing financial and emergency aids from other countries.
It was reported that The United States and other countries such as [...]
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