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The man who murdered 22 people and injured 59 others has been named as Salman Ramadan Abedi, a Mancunian of Libyan descent. Police confirmed the 22-year-old’s identity after officials in the United States passed it to news reporters, apparently against the wishes of the British police and...

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The mysterious disappearance of AirAsia flight QZ8501 is the second case of its kind this year after MH370 vanished in March The disappearance of an AirAsia flight between Indonesia and Singapore has, perhaps inevitably, prompted comparisons with the unsolved case of the missing Malaysia...

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Audio recording of the conversation between Capt. Francesco Schettino and Port Authority officials after the doomed Italian luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks on January 13, 2012 was released on the morning of January 17, 2012 and reported by ABC News. At least six people were...

December 7th, 1941. Not many still left alive who remember first hand. But 2400 Americans died that day and countless others wounded physically and spiritually. Worth a moment or two of solemn remembrance. Regards Randy

Very sad. I can't say enough about the men and women who protect our and other countries. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early...

No U.S. operatives were hurt or killed in the dramatic, early-morning raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in his northern Pakistan hideout. At least, none that we know about here at 1:50 a.m. Monday, EDT. But there may have been casualties among American allies, according to...

Link Removed Libyan troops captured by rebels in Misrata said on Saturday the army had been ordered to retreat from the besieged port, marking a possible shift in a two-month revolt against leader Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan government said NATO air...

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit Japan about 35 miles from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s stricken nuclear power plant, shaking buildings in the capital city and causing fires to break out in the northeast of the country. The quake struck at 5:16 p.m. local time 38 kilometers (24 miles) west of...

Link Removed Water leaks have been found at Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture in Japan after a new 7.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the northeastern area. Tohoku Electric, the operator of the plant, said on Friday that water leaked out of the spent fuel pools of reactors number 1and 2...

Link RemovedEvacuees rest at a shelter after being transferred from an elder care facility in Kesennuma, northern Japan. Photograph: Masami Kawakita/AP Of all the grim headlines to have emerged from Japan in recent weeks, this one on the Kyodo newswire was particularly disturbing: "Up to 1,000...

JERUSALEM – A bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 other people in what authorities said was the first major Palestinian militant attack in the city in several years. The bombing brought back memories of the second...

TOKYO (Reuters) – It seemed too good to be true. A young man pulled alive from the rubble on Saturday eight days after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Hours after the man made international headlines on Saturday, a glimmer of hope in Japan's worst tragedy since World War Two...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12729485 A number of people are reported injured and missing after a second explosion at a nuclear complex in Japan, which was damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Smoke was seen rising from reactor number three at the Fukushima plant but...

Four workers suffer fractures after explosion at power plant Metal container housing nuclear reactor was not damaged in blast Confirmed death toll stands at 574, but hundreds are still missing Region still being hit by aftershocks, some as powerful as magnitude 6 Millions left without power and...