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Boston bombings: Runners reclaim race after blasts

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:40:59 GMT

THOUSANDS of athletes have joined victims of the Boston Marathon bombings to run and walk the last mile of the race, reclaiming the triumph of crossing the finish line.

Stockholm riots: Community leaders call for calm

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:05:27 GMT

COMMUNITY patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm yesterday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time.

Japan: Radiation leak after lab test overheats

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:59:53 GMT

AN ATOMIC research laboratory in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 55 people, its operator said yesterday.

Croatia: Josip Broz Tito birthday marked

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:56:26 GMT

THOUSANDS of people gathered in a Croatian village yesterday to mark the birthday of Josip Broz Tito, the Communist leader whose death marked the beginning of the end of the Yugoslavia federation more than 20 years ago.

Syria: 22 killed in Qusair fighting, dozens wounded

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:45:57 GMT

FORCES loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad shelled a strategic western town yesterday in their heaviest barrage during a week-long battle to dislodge rebels, activists said.

Russia: 30 arrested during gay pride parade

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:31:23 GMT

GAY rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country’s first-ever gay pride march.

Cardinal O’Brien: Vatican criticised over leave

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:45 GMT

THE men whose allegations of sexual misconduct prompted the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien have criticised the Vatican for telling the cleric to leave Scotland for a period of “prayer and penance”.

Relatives demand answers after British child dies

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:38 GMT

RELATIVES of a five-year-old British girl who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt said yesterday that they are angry and hurt that more was not done to save her.

Gerald Warner: Feminism driving holocaust of abortion

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:24:10 GMT

THE case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist convicted of three charges of first degree murder in America, has brought home to some people a few of the realities of abortion, which is now a global holocaust promoted pre-eminently by the same government whose laws incongruously condemned Gosnell.

ANC leaders ‘exploiting’ Nelson Mandela

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:56 GMT

“SMILE!” the visitor implored, an edge of forced bonhomie in his voice, as he held up a camera to take a snapshot.

Indonesia: Hopes fading for 23 trapped miners

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:45 GMT

Rescue officials say falling rocks are hampering their progress in reaching 23 trapped workers at a US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, and chances of finding any more survivors are declining.

Iraq: Militants kill Sunni fighters in HQ attack

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:44 GMT

SUSPECTED Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq yesterday, security sources said.

North Korea fires three missiles in test launches

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:44 GMT

NORTH Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its waters yesterday, a South Korean official said.

Blow for women’s rights in Afghanistan

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:43 GMT

The parliament failed to pass a law yesterday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights since the Islamist Taliban was toppled more than a decade ago.

France: Gay marriage law is signed by Hollande

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:50:01 GMT

A LAW authorising gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples has been signed by French president Francois Hollande.

Cause of Connecticut rail crash eludes investigators

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:34:56 GMT

FIVE people remained critically ill yesterday after two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday’s evening rush hour.

Astronauts take rare spacewalk to fix leak

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:07:28 GMT

A PAIR of astronauts carried out a rare spacewalk yesterday in hurried efforts to patch a dangerous ammonia leak at the International Space Station.

Ohio kidnappings: Suspect partner’s abuse claim

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:14:27 GMT

THE former partner of alleged US rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro repeatedly went to the authorities to accuse him of abusing her, according to police reports, but the complaints never triggered more investigations.

Car bombs kill 43 in Turkish border town

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:05:31 GMT

TWO car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria yesterday, killing an estimated 43 people and wounding about 140 others.

Bangladesh factory collapse: Survivor recovering

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:03:29 GMT

A TEENAGER pulled alive from the rubble of an eight-storey clothing factory 17 days after it collapsed, was recovering in hospital yesterday.