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A girl in Spain has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth at age ten. She had a child weighing 6lb 6oz during a natural birth last week at a hospital in Jerez de la Frontera, in the southern region of Andalusia. Both mother and baby have been allowed out of hospital […]

In a sharp rebuke to Beijing, the Nobel Committee named imprisoned Chinese scholar Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Peace Prize winner for “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” The decision by the five-member committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament comes over the objection of the Chinese government, which considers…[Read more]

A man in Kentucky facing eviction over his hostile temper became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before shooting himself on Saturday. Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said 47-year-old Stanley Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes […]

Madrid, Thursday A running bull gored and killed a woman spectator who poked her head through the barrier during a town bull run in central Spain today, authorities said. “After poking her head through the bars she received a fatal blow to the head from a bull at the back of the herd,” said a […]

GRAND ISLE, La. – An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after a rig explosion. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial […]