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Spain: 10 dead, 21 hurt in crash of Greek F-16 jet at base
Madrid, Spain (AP) -- A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other aircraft on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 French and Greek military personnel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said.…
Streets deserted as huge snowstorm hits US northeast
New York, United States (AFP) -- A huge snowstorm slammed into north eastern US late Monday, shutting down public transport, cancelling thousands of flights and leaving roads and streets deserted as snow blanketed an area that's home to…
Suspected burglar in Texas falls through ceiling, lands near police
Houston, Texas (AP) -- Authorities say a man's plans to break into a Houston store fell through, after he crashed through the ceiling and landed in front of police.
Houston police say the man climbed a tree and onto the roof of a Family…
Hackers target Malaysia Airlines, threaten data dump
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP) -- The website of Malaysia Airlines was commandeered for several hours on Monday by hackers who referenced the Islamic State jihadists and threatened to expose data taken from the carrier's servers.
The attack,…
Man kills co-worker, then himself at NYC Home Depot
New York, United States (AP) -- Police say an employee at a Home Depot store in Manhattan argued with a co-worker before fatally shooting him and then killing himself.
It happened around 2:45 p.m. Sunday in the posh Chelsea neighborhood.…
Top US court to consider use of lethal drugs in executions
Washington, United States (AFP) -- The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether a cocktail of lethal drugs used for executions in Oklahoma represent cruel and unusual punishment.
Three inmates on death row in the central state…
After 37 years in prison, innocent North Carolina man freed
Whiteville, (North Carolina) -- United States - For the first time in nearly 40 years, Joseph Sledge woke up behind bars with a chance of becoming a free man.
The 70-year-old man needed one more win at an innocence hearing. As three judges…
US woman who tried to help terrorists receives 4 years
Denver, United States (AP) -- A 19-year-old woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Shannon Conley learned her punishment in Denver federal court on Friday as her parents…
Thousands of Islamic State militants killed – US officials
London, England (AP) -- The U.S. and its allies sought to put a good face on the coalition's deliberate campaign to roll back the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, boasting of having killed thousands of militants while…
Indonesian divers recover 6 more bodies from AirAsia crash
Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian divers retrieved six more bodies on Thursday from waters around the sunken fuselage of the AirAsia jetliner that crashed last month.
Divers struggled with strong currents and poor visibility in…
Commonwealth heads of government meeting to be held November 27-29
London, England -- The next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in Malta, from 27 to 29 November 2015. Heads welcomed the offer of Malta to host CHOGM when they met in Sri Lanka in 2013. Meetings will take place at…
Bus shelling, clashes kill 34 in one of Ukraine war’s bloodiest days
Donetsk, Ukraine (AFP) -- The shelling of a bus and clashes in Ukraine's separatist east left 34 people dead Thursday as Kiev was forced to abandon its defence of Donetsk's airport in one of the deadliest days of the nine-month war.
In the…
American Express cutting 4,000 jobs
New York, United States (AFP) -- American Express Company said Wednesday it planned to cut its workforce by 4,000 jobs to reduce costs.
Marina Hoffman Norville, a spokeswoman for the US banking group and a leading issuer of credit cards,…
Commonwealth secretary-general comments on political developments in St Kitts-Nevis
London, England -- Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma on Wednesday welcomed movement towards holding constitutionally due elections in St Kitts and Nevis.
Sharma also noted that various public statements had been made…
Obama: No greater threat to future than climate change
(CNN) -- What President Barack Obama described as the greatest threat to future generations was neither terrorism nor ISIS. It wasn't nuclear weapons in rogue states either.
"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than…