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Gyrocopter lands on US Capitol's west lawn
Douglas Mark Hughes, a mailman for the United States Postal Service, landed his gyrocopter on the west lawn of the US C...

Mississippi medical board allows embattled physician...
On Wednesday, the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure chose to let Doctor Carroll Frazier Landrum keep his phy...

Australian charged with murder of two after 24 years
Robert Penny, 83, yesterday was charged with the murder of his wife Margaret Penny and hairdresser Claire Acocks, twenty four years after their deaths at the Old London Coiffure hair salon in Portland, Victoria in Australia. Mr Penny was charged by homicide detectives after a revived investigation found Penny had disclosed details of the women's deaths to v...

US Capitol lockdown lifted after shooting
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Capitol building has reopened after shots were fired in front of it. For safety, no entry or exit was permitted from the building after a man committed suicide just before 2pm local time yesterday. The lockdown lasted until around 3:50pm while members of the bomb squad investigated the man's backpack, suitcase, and the surrounding ...

Foreigners evacuated from Yemen by India
India's Ministry of External affairs yesterday announced the end of an evacuation effort which has rescued about 5,600 people from more than 40 countries from the conflict in Yemen. To avoid a no-fly zone over parts of Yemen, India transported people via the African state of Djibouti. This was achieved using ships of the Indian Navy as transport from Aden a...

Labour leader Ed Miliband. (Image: Department of Energy.)

Labour grabs poll lead in UK General Election campaign
The approval ratings of UK Labour leader Ed Miliband rose above those of his Conservative opponent, David Cameron, for the first time in this year's bitterly fought general election campaign. The poll results showed support for the Labour Party was also rising. A poll by Panelbase yesterday showed Labour six points ahead; a similar survey by Survation for the...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty in Boston Marathon bo...
Jurors in the US federal criminal trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found him guilty yesterday of all 30 charges for the bombing of the Boston Marathon which occurred on April 15, 2013. The bombings killed three people and injured a further 264 people. Tsarnaev was also found guilty of shooting dead Sean Collier, an MIT police officer. The jury took eleven hours acro...

Plane crash in Illinois kills seven
A Cessna 414 twin engine aircraft crashed in an Illinois field on Tuesday while returning from an Indianapolis NCAA basketball tournament. All seven people on the plane were killed. The plane took off from an airport in Indianapolis. It crashed very early Tuesday morning. According to the McLean County sheriff, rescuers found all seven people dead. Coroner ...

James Best, best known as Rosco P. Coltrane of 'The ...
James Best, best known as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, has died, aged 88. A wonderfully fun actor and person, he was a gifted musician and acting teacher as well as an actor. Born Jewel Franklin Guy in Powderly, Kentucky, Best came by his show business career naturally–his mother was the sister of Ike Everly, the father of the Everly ...

Sarah Brady, pictured far right in 2006 (Image: White House.)

Gun control campaigner Sarah Brady dies aged 73
Sarah Brady, gun control campaigner and widow of former US White House Press Secretary James Brady, has died at the age of 73. Her death was announced by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Brady died on Friday after a battle with pneumonia according to e-mails sent by her family. A statement by the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gu...

Small plane with one pilot crashes near Virginia air...
A small plane, piloted by sixteen-year-old Ryan McCall, crashed near Orange County Airport in Virginia, at about 9:45 a.m local time Sunday morning, police said. He was killed in the accident. The boy, Ryan McCall, a sophomore at Riverbend High School in Spotsylvania County, was alone on the plane. The plane, a 1974 Piper, model PA28140, crashed in a field ...

Gibraltar, seen from the air. From file. (Image: Steve.)

Four found dead at flat in Gibraltar
The bodies of two adults and two children were found yesterday at a flat in Gibraltar in a possible murder-suicide. Two young girls, one aged four and the other only six weeks, were found stabbed alongside a British 31-year-old male and a Spanish 37-year-old female. Royal Gibraltar Police said despite opening up a crime investigation on the deaths they do not ...

UEFA Euro 2016 qualification match abandoned after b...
The UEFA Euro 2016 qualification match between Montenegro and Russia on Friday was abandoned after players and coaching staff got involved in a brawl. The match, at Montenegro capital Podgorica Gradski Stadion, was suspended within the first minute after the Russian goalkeeper was hit with a flare. The match restarted after a delay but was called off around th...

Reid is the current Senate minority leader (Image: United States Congress.)

US Senator Harry Reid announces he will not seek re-...
Harry Reid, Democratic Senator and current Senate Minority Leader, announced on Friday he will not run for re-election next year. Reid has represented the state of Nevada in the Senate since 1987. He has endorsed Senator Charles Schumer of New York to replace him as Democratic senate leader. The announcement follows months of rumours regarding the senator's r...

Officials say co-pilot intentionally crashed Germanw...
Officials said Thursday, after analyzing data from the Germanwings Flight 9525 cockpit voice recorder, that the airbus crashed into the French Alps because its co-pilot deliberately crashed it. On the cockpit voice recorder, the captain can be heard trying to get back into the cockpit. Transponder data indicates the autopilot was told to descend from 38,000...

UK Supreme Court require government to release Princ...
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom have concluded that the government must release a series of 27 letters sent by Prince Charles to government ministers and that attempts to prevent their publication under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been unlawful. The letters were sent to ministers of the previous Labour government in the years of 2004 an...

State funeral held for former Australian Prime Minis...
The state funeral for Malcolm Fraser, the former Prime Minister of Australia, was held in Melbourne on Friday. Fraser died last week at the age of 84 after a short illness. Hundreds of people attending the funeral, held Scots' Church, including the current Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott. The church, which seats 700, placed 1,000 chairs in the street ...

Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes into French Alps, 15...
Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 carrying 150 passengers and crew, crashed into the French Alps yesterday between Digne and Barcelonnette. Officials said there were no survivors. The plane was flying to Dusseldorf, Germany from Barcelona, Spain. An emergency recovery team made its way to the crash site and reportedly recovered one of the plane's flight ...

Lee pictured at the Pentagon in October 2002. (Image: R. D. Ward.)

Singapore's 'founding father' Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91
Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, has died at the age of 91. Considered the "founding father" of Singapore, Lee led Singapore through the aftermath of independence to become one of the world's richest nations. He died yesterday under treatment for pneumonia at the Singapore General Hospital. The current Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsie...

RTVE's US correspondent gets condemnation for 'false...
The Association of Latin Entertainment Critics of New York published Thursday and updated yesterday, at its official websites, a press release condemning Spanish RTVE's United States correspondent and bureau chief Almudena Ariza, asking RTVE's Ethics Department to "dismiss the correspondent and remove the correspondent from the US". The journalistic associatio...

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