A second witness at the murder trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has told a court in the capital Pretoria she was awoken by the sounds of a fight early on 14 February 2013. Mr Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to intentionally killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He shot dead the 29-year-old model and reality TV star at his home, saying he mistook her for an intruder. Estelle Van […]
What we found in the Clinton documents STORY HIGHLIGHTS Newly released Clinton papers detail health care battle of 1990s Public gets a new look at inner workings of the Clinton White House Several thousand pages of documents released in a first batch Hillary Clinton is now a potential presidential contender in 2016 More than 3,500 pages of previously secret Clinton White House documents made public Friday showed that the more […]
Here’s President Obama explaining how much of himself he sees in so many young and struggling minorities without parents. Obama announces that, like them, he used to make excuses, blame others and get high when he was angry. The president has been referring to his adolescent marijuana habit as a mistake, yet we all know that if Obama had stayed away from weed as a kid, he probably wouldn’t have […]
Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust, died at 110 on Feb. 23, 2014. Her death comes a week 86th Academy Awards, at which a film about her life is nominated for best short documentary. Alice Herz-Sommer used to perform on the piano for fellow prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp where she spent nearly two years of her life. It was the music that saved her life […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Antoinette Tuff saved 800 students from gunman Her actions offer survival guide to others Tuff survived because she made three key decisions Survival expert: “She played her part perfectly” Antoinette Tuff’s knees tremble as she stares at the black barrel of an AK-47. Her hands shake so much she can’t hold a pencil. Facing her, a stocky young man dressed in black points the assault rifle at her. […]
A curious father was left stunned after discovering where his young son was going on his daily walks. He noticed his son left their house in the rural Philippines every day for two weeks, carrying a backpack, and one day he decided to tag along. The pair stopped on the side of the road and moments later a group of starving stray dogs came towards them. His son told him he […]
In Pic :Overtime hero Marie-Philip Poulin is all smiles after beating the U.S. for Olympic hockey gold in Sochi Thursday. Every Thursday, I play hockey with Nat, Tee, Goner and about 12 other women. I play goal. I look forward to it more than any other skate, partly because we’re very post-modern — men and women dressing, and sometimes undressing, together — and partly because the players are unlike any […]
Fahmy shouts out in court that conditions he faces in prison are ‘psychologically unbearable’ Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy was jailed while working for Al-Jazeera English. The family of Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, an Al-Jazeera television producer on trial with colleagues in Cairo, says they are frustrated but optimistic after his first day in court. Fahmy and 19 others are accused by the Egyptian government of being members of and assisting a […]
In Pic :Snake-handling Kentucky pastor Jamie Coots believes the bible literally instrcuts him to take up snakes in his preaching. “We’ve been serpent handling for the past 20 or 21 years,” he said in February 2013. MIDDLESBORO, Ky. — Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show Snake Salvation, died Saturday after being bitten by a snake. Coots was handling a rattlesnake during […]
Abubakar Shariff Ahmed is not a hard man to find. Ask around in the Majengo area of Mombasa and people will know where he lives. But ask around too conspicuously and you are likely to arouse suspicion. Mr Ahmed is perhaps better known by his nickname, Makaburi. It means “graveyard” in Swahili. His name features on US and UN sanctions lists of people suspected of involvement in terrorism – accused […]
