At least 28 people have been killed and dozens hurt in Egypt in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. More than 200 members of his Muslim Brotherhood were arrested in Cairo, where 26 of the deaths were reported. Supporters of Mr Morsi marched in several cities, as the military-backed government marked the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Morsi supporters say he was […]
US special forces have carried out two separate raids in Africa targeting senior Islamist militants, American officials say. In Libya, US commandos captured an al-Qaeda leader accused of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Anas al-Libi was seized in the capital Tripoli. And a leader of the al-Shabab group was targeted in southern Somalia, but that raid appears to have failed. The al-Shabab leader – […]
Attacks by hornets in northern China have killed 41 people since July, state-run media report. More than 1,600 people have also been injured by stings in Shaanxi province, according to China News Agency. It says 206 people are still being treated in hospital, with 37 patients remaining in a critical condition. Local officials have been quoted as saying that drier and warmer weather this year may have contributed to a […]
At least 82 people have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the island’s mayor says. More than 140 have been rescued but hundreds are missing, officials say. Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea as the vessel got into trouble and Italian officials were quoted as saying that dozens of people were still in the water. Earlier this week, 13 migrants […]
A teenager working as a servant in the Indian capital is recovering in hospital after being rescued from her employer’s home where she was allegedly beaten and slashed with sharp weapons. Her employer, a 50-year-old woman, has been arrested, police said. Anti-trafficking campaigners who rescued the victim said she was 15 years old, but police said she was 18. The assault has focused the spotlight once again on the abuse […]
About four dozen people were injured Monday when a Chicago Transit Authority train smashed crashed into another at a station in the western suburb of Forest Park. Forest Park Mayor Anthony Calderone says none of the injuries were serious. He says the injured were taken to ten hospitals, most complaining of back and neck pain. Calderone says it appears one westbound train and one eastbound train collided on the […]
Photo taken on board Mackay Bennett in 1912 going under the hammer It’s estimated to go for £5,000 next month at auction in Devizes, Wiltshire It shows mass funeral for dozens of 1,512 who died in Atlantic disaster The ship’s priest is seen with body bags stacked on the windswept deck Some 166 of 306 bodies retrieved by Mackay Bennett were buried at sea They were gathered nine days after […]
An explosion has ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, leaving at least 33 dead and dozens wounded, officials say. Police said a bomb had exploded in the Kissa Khwani market, with shops and vehicles set alight. The blast comes a week after a double suicide bombing that killed at least 80 people at a church in the city. On Friday, at least 17 people were […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: The death toll rises to 13, hospital spokesman says Dozens of people are feared to be trapped in the rubble The old residential building in southern Mumbai gave way early Friday Around 22 apartments were occupied on the building’s upper floors, the owner says At least 13 people were killed and 26 more were injured when a five-story residential building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of […]
Christine McCullins, 54, was bitten by a false widow spider in Hampshire She was bed-ridden for a week after her leg swelled up and turned black It took three weeks and two courses of antibiotics to remove the infection Rising numbers of false widows reported across the south of the UK It is a relative of the potentially deadly black widow spider A woman feared her leg would have to […]
