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One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in southern France. Officials have been quick to point out that there was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast, which was caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste … [Read more...]
A homeowner in southern Sweden investigated the noise coming from his neighbours and was surprised to find a drunken elk stuck in an apple tree. The moose was apparently on the hunt for fermenting apples when she lost her balance and became trapped in the tree. Per Johansson, from Saro near … [Read more...]
A chartered jet carrying Russia's major league ice hockey team Lokomotiv has crashed on take-off near the central city of Yaroslavl, killing 43 people. The team was heading to Belarus for the first match of the new season. Two people have survived the crash but with serious injuries. Russian … [Read more...]
Swiss born Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra has died from head and chest injuries suffered in a road accident in Sicily last month. He had been in a coma since the crash and never regained consciousness. The 43-year-old - who was seen as the heir to the great Luciano Pavarotti in Italy - crashed … [Read more...]
It has been a few centuries since the last big time Vandal attack on Rome, but they are back it seems. Two big chunks have been knocked off a marble statue in a fountain in Rome's famed Piazza Navona in a series of attacks by vandals over the weekend. The damaged statue was a 19th-century … [Read more...]
An intoxicated 84-year-old man in Norway has been arrested after driving the wrong way down a highway in his electric wheelchair. The man took to the road on Saturday evening near his home in the southern Norwegian town of Porsgrunn, police said. He passed through a 184-metre tunnel then … [Read more...]
Italian businessman Giampaolo Tarantini and his wife, Angele Venvenutohave been arrested on charges of blackmailing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over his use of prostitutes. Giampaolo Tarantini, 36, has admitted he paid for escorts to attend the famous Berlusconi bunga bunga parties. The … [Read more...]
The eruption of Sicily's Mount Etna has intensified overnight with the volcano spewing out ash and shooting lava into the air. Italy's Civil Protection agency says the nation's geophysics and volcanology institute has registered increased explosive activity by Etna, eight days after the latest … [Read more...]
An unmanned space freighter launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to re-supply the International Space Station (ISS) has been lost soon after launch. The Russian space agency said the Progress M-12M cargo ship was not placed in the correct orbit by its rocket and fell back to … [Read more...]
Reports from Belguim say that four people have been killed and 40 injured when a violent storm swept through the Pukkelpop music festival 65km east of Brussels. About 60,000 people were at the event in the town of Hasselt, when strong winds and torrential rain caused stage rigging to collapse. … [Read more...]
Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik has been taken back to Utoeya Island by police to do a 'reconstruction' of his killing rampage that left 69 people dead. Mr Breivik, wearing a bulletproof vest and tethered on a rope, was seen pointing to where he had fired shots. Police later said … [Read more...]
An 11 year-old in Germany has called the German police emergency line to complain about "forced labour" after his mother told him to help clean their house. Police say the boy the boy was from Aachen, and spoke to an officer saying "I have to work all day long. I haven't any free time." His … [Read more...]
A tourist in Croatia has had her hand almost completely severed after a sex session involving a bathroom sink in went badly wrong. The Croatian Times newspaper reported the 28-year-old New Zealand woman, known as Amy R, was having sex on a bathroom sink with an Englishman in the island town of … [Read more...]
The Italian Coastguard Coastguard have found the bodies of 25 men on a boat crowded with refugees fleeing Libya. The small 15-metre boat landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa with 271 survivors onboard. In the engine room however they found the the bodies of 25 men who appeared to … [Read more...]
Norway gunman and bomber Anders Behring Breivik claimed in an Oslo court appearance today that he has an active network of accomplices. He did not however get his chance to preach from the stand as a judge cut him short once he had got a plea from him. Behring Breivik has now been remanded in … [Read more...]
Coca-Cola has said it will invest $2bn in India over the next five years in a bid to increase its market share in the country. Part of the … [Read More...]
Sri Lanka has blocked five news websites because they committed character assassination and insulted people including key political leaders, officials … [Read More...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is free of cancer after returning from Cuba for health checks following four cycles of … [Read More...]
A suspected gas explosion at a restaurant in central Rio de Janeiro has left three people dead and at least 13 injured, Brazilian officials say. … [Read More...]
A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100 … [Read More...]
A tropical depression storm pounding Central America has triggered floods and landslides that have left at least 18 people dead, officials say. In … [Read More...]
Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain is trying hard to lose the … [Read More and View]
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