Cypriots Digging for Graves of Missing

Nearly 39 years after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has begun digging for possible burial sites of victims within a fenced Turkish military area in the occupied...

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Anti-tank mine may have caused Chitungwiza blast

An anti-tank landmine is believed to have caused the Chitungwiza blast that killed five people on Monday. Sources close to the investigations revealed that the “the nature of the damage was consistent...

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11 killed when truck hits people boarding Kenya ferry

At least 11 people were killed Saturday morning when a truck lost control and rammed into passengers boarding a ferry in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa, the Kenya Red Cross said. “So far we can confirm...

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Arepo And pipeline vandalism; source of many deaths and disasters

Arepo, an otherwise obscure and somnolent community in Ogun State, which is only a few kilometres away from Lagos, has been in the news for the wrong reasons. The community is important as it has...

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Riot kills 22 in Egypt after death sentences for football hooligans

At least 22 people have died after a furious crowd rampaged through Egypt's Port Said, adding to a bloody three days for the country. The protesters were angered by the death sentences handed to...

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Fire guts Bangladesh garment factory, six killed

Fire raced through a small garment factory in the Bangladesh capital on Saturday, killing at least six employees and injuring 10, firefighters and witnesses said, two months after the country's worst...

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NIST biometric workshop studies voice, dental, oral standards, DVI

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a workshop to discuss proposed supplements to the biometric data format standard that support voice recognition, dental and oral...

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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

In 1959, Yang Jisheng watched the uncle who raised him starve to death during Mao's Great Famine. In 2008, he published Tombstone in Chinese in Hong Kong. The tome took him over a decade to research...

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Update: Six, including centenarian, killed in illegal Mahim slum blaze

A major fire broke out in an illegal slum cluster in Mahim before dawn on Friday, killing six persons, including four from one family. It is being claimed that one of the deceased was over 100 years...

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Second Malaysian identified in Algeria hostage crisis

The death of a second Malaysian worker in the Algerian hostage crisis has been confirmed after his body was identified by his dental records and a tattoo, the Malaysian foreign ministry said on Saturday....

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Mazaruni River crash deaths climb to nine

With the recovery of four more bodies, the death toll from Tuesday’s Mazaruni River collision was up to nine at press time last night, and while search efforts will continue for the missing the Maritime...

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Amansea Tragedy: 15 Bodies To Be Exhumed For Full Autopsy

Following initial results of the ongoing autopsy being carried out on some of the bodies evacuated from Ezu River in Amansea area of Awka North Council of Anambra State, which were discovered last...

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Dozens killed in Venezuela prison riot

At least 54 people were killed and 88 others wounded in clashes at a prison in Venezuela's northwestern city of Barquisimeto, a hospital director who was at the scene has said. Most of those injured...

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