Btreaking News : Police shoot attacker at US airport
Police shoot attacker at US airport. US security staff shot a knife-wielding man three times at New Orleans international airport after he tried to storm a checkpoint, officials say. They say the man, named as Richard White, 63, attacked an airport security worker with wasp spray before striking another on the arm with a large knife. Police said he was "unresponsive" after being shot in the leg, chest and face but was taken to a local hospital. Several bystanders were said to have been treated for minor injuries. Jefferson Parish S…
Lucy Coffey, Oldest Female U.S. Veteran, Dies at 108
Lucy Coffey, Oldest Female U.S. Veteran, Dies at 108 The nation's oldest-living female vet lived through Pearl Harbor and met President Barack Obama (SAN ANTONIO) — The nation’s oldest female military veteran is dead. She was 108. Lucy Coffey was found dead in her bed in San Antonio Thursday morning. Friend Queta Marquez, Bexar (BEAR) County veterans’ service officer, said Coffey had been sick for about a week and had a chronic cough. Funeral arrangements are pending. The Indiana-born farm girl was working at a Dallas grocery store the…
Monica Lewinsky: 'Public shaming as a blood sport needs to stop'
Monica Lewinsky:'Public shaming as a blood sport needs to stop'. Monica Lewinsky says cyberbullying almost drove her to suicide. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky told the TED conference in Vancouver today that it was time for her to speak up and stop "tiptoeing" around her past. In a deeply personal speech that caused her to pause to hold back tears more than once, Lewinsky described the global humiliation she suffered as the result of her relationship in the '90s with President Bill Clinton . "At 22,…
Quebec judge didn't murder his wife, forensic experts tell CBC
Quebec judge didn't murder his wife, forensic experts tell CBC. Three ballistics experts who spoke to CBC's the fifth estate and Radio-Canada's Enquete program corroborate Jacques Delisle's recent assertion that he did not kill his wife, Nicole Rainville, in 2009. (Radio-Canada) CBC's the fifth estate has spoken to two forensic experts and one ballistics expert who corroborate a recent confession by ex-judge and convicted killer Jacques Delisle that he did not murder his wife, but did supply her with the gun that she us…
Netanyahu 'wins Israeli election'
Netanyahu 'wins Israeli election' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party has won a surprise victory in Israel's election. Exit polls had forecast a dead heat but with almost all votes counted, results give Likud a clear lead over its main rival, the centre-left Zionist Union. The outcome gives Mr Netanyahu a strong chance of forming a right-wing coalition government. The result puts the incumbent on course to clinch a fourth term and become Israel's longest-serving prime minster. The latest tally gives…
Arrests as Italy probes public works
Arrests as Italy probes public works. Italian police have arrested four people and raided dozens of premises over suspicious public works contracts worth some €25m (£18m; $26m). A former manager at the public works ministry, Ercole Incalza, is one of the four people detained. Rail and motorway contracts, including part of Italy's high-speed TAV railway line near Florence, are under scrutiny. Investigators suspect that the awarding of contracts was influenced by bribes paid to certain officials. The arrests took place in Rome and Milan, …
Head teacher abuse allegations shock El Salvador
Head teacher abuse allegations shock El Salvador. El Salvador has one of the highest rates of child homicide in the world. According to Unicef, nine out ten cases of sexual abuse of women in the country concern under-18s. UN figures list El Salvador as one the worst countries for violence against children in the world - but an alleged case of abuse and rape by a head teacher, being widely shared online, has still shocked people there. The allegations in the story come from an anthropologist, Juan Jose Martinez, who was doing research for Un…
Ecco il segreto di Francesco: potrebbe imitare Benedetto
Ecco il segreto di Francesco: potrebbe imitare Benedetto. di Fabio Marchese Ragona «Il Papa quando parla di pontificato breve, non si riferisce alla morte, ma a un'altra cosa ben precisa». L'incontro avviene a pochi metri dalla Domus Santa Marta, la residenza del Papa, e chi parla è uno strettissimo collaboratore di Francesco, uno di quelli, insomma, che trascorre la maggior parte delle sue giornate accanto al Pontefice. «Vuole sapere perché il Papa dice di avere la sensazione che forse non durerà molto? Bene, posso dirlo, ma a…
Sport News : Lewis Hamilton cruises to victory in Australian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton cruises to victory in Australian Grand Prix . Easy win: Lewis Hamilton had Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel in his pocket throughout, as Sir Jackie Stewart and others watched a quiet Melbourne Grand Prix Photo: William West/AFP/GETTY Lewis Hamilton began his reign as champion of the world with the most comfortable of drives to victory in the Australian Grand Prix. Hamilton had this one and Nico Rosberg in his pocket throughout. The two-time champion eased to take the chequered flag, keeping his Mercedes team-mate comfortably…
The 6 best jokes:Obama Roasts Hillary Clinton, Boehner at Washington Dinner
Obama Roasts Hillary Clinton, Boehner at Washington Dinner The 6 best jokes at the Gridiron Club dinner President Obama played comedian-in-chief Saturday night, taunting Republicans, the media and members of his own administration in an appearance at the annual Gridiron Club dinner here. In an evening of speeches and far-off-Broadway musical numbers and costumes—sample: a Jeb Bush impersonator singing “Hello Fadduh, hello Muddah. Can’t the voters, forget my bruddah?”— Obama brought down the room several times. Wisconsin Gov. Scott W…
Breaking News : Vatican urges use of force to fight ISIS
Vatican urges use of force to fight ISIS. Rome The Vatican ambassador in Geneva has said the use of force will be necessary to protect minority groups from Islamic State aggression if a political solution cannot be achieved. In an interview with US Catholic website Crux, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said the jihadists, who have declared a cross-border caliphate after seizing land in eastern Syria and northern Iraq, were committing "genocide" and must be stopped. "What's needed is a coordinated and well-thought-out coalition…
Late Update : First missing UK schoolgirl,who travelled to Syria, named
First missing UK schoolgirl named. The first of four missing London schoolgirls who have travelled to Syria has been named as Sharmeena Begum. The 15-year-old, from Bethnal Green, is thought to have left the UK in December to join Islamic State (IS) militants. Sharmeena's father told the Daily Mail he had warned teachers at Bethnal Green Academy to keep an eye on three of her friends who have since disappeared. Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, are now believed to have joined her in Syria. All four teenagers are thou…
Top Story:Iraqi Kurds allege chlorine gas attack by ISIL
Iraqi Kurds allege chlorine gas attack by ISIL. Kurdish officials say remnants of a suicide blast on highway between Mosul and Syria showed presence of chlorine. Kurdish authorities in Iraq say they have evidence that fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga forces. The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said in a statement on Saturday that EU-certified laboratory tests showed that soil and clothing samples collected from the remnants of a suicide blast …
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