Daily Archives

January 7, 2015

Indonesia says crashed AirAsia plane tail found

Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP) -- Recovery teams have found the tail of the crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, the Indonesian search chief said Wednesday, the eleventh day of relief operations. "We have successfully obtained part of…

12 dead in attack on Paris newspaper

Paris (AP) -- Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people before escaping. It was France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades. French President…

Rare glimpse of Obama’s daughter causes online stir

Washington, United States (AFP) -- After years of careful White House control over her few public appearances, a mysterious online image of first daughter Malia Obama, 16, has gone viral. The rare glimpse of a personal side of President…

Two 14-y-o Old Harbour girls missing

Kingston, Jamaica -- An Ananda Alert has been activated for 14 -year-old Shaneil Rhule of Marley Acres, Old Harbour, who has been missing since Thursday, January 1 and 14- year-old Aaliyah Cole of Church Pen, Old Harbour both in St…

Baby in Trinidad fights for life after being shot

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Up to press time yesterday, an 18-month-old baby boy was fighting for his life at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope after he was shot in the back of his head by unknown assailants yesterday…

Pride name squad for NAGICO Super50

Bridgetown, Barbados -- Title holders Barbados Pride have named their 14-man squad for the 2015 WICB Nagico Super50 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago, January 15-26. Squad: Kevin Stoute (captain), Tino Best, Kraigg Brathwaite, Shamarh…

Australia on top after making 572

Sports Page -- Everywhere you turned on the second day in Sydney there were stats, and Steven Smith was at the centre of most of them. But at the end of the day the only figure that really mattered was 501. That was the deficit India faced…

NZ complete turnaround with big win

Sports Page -- The way the fourth day had panned out - only one wicket - New Zealand would have known going through the Sri Lanka batting line-up was not going to be easy. The visitors had played out almost 11 hours in the second innings of…

Jordan’s prince to seek FIFA presidency

Sports Page -- Can this prince topple the king of world football's governing body? Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein has stepped forward to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency at May's election. Blatter, 78, is seeking a fifth…

Equinox, Maasdam among three cruise ships in port

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- Three cruise ships with nearly 8,000 passengers were in port Tuesday bringing to just over 12,000 for this week from five ships. Docking at Port Zante were the Celebrity Equinox which arrived from St.…

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