Friday, August 24, 2012

Police fired on US gov't vehicle: Mexican Navy

Police fired on US gov't vehicle: Mexican Navy


Police fired on US gov't vehicle: Mexican Navy

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:40 PM PDT

Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees on Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the office...


Empire State Building shooting: Police gunfire may have injured bystanders

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:20 PM PDT

The nine people believed injured by stray police gunfire outside the Empire State Building were not the first to learn how dangerous a crowded street can be in a gunfight.


Video shows shooting outside Empire State Building

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:14 PM PDT

Dramatic surveillance video shows a police confrontation with a man who had fatally shot a former colleague near the Empire State Building lasted only a few seconds.


Empire State Building shooting: Gunman killed former co-worker before being shot dead

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:03 PM PDT

A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world's best...


Empire State building shooting: Gunman, a designer, lost his job a year ago

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:19 PM PDT

Neighbours of Jeffrey Johnson assumed the man who greeted them as he left home in a suit each morning was on his way to work -- until on Friday when police say he started a gunfight near the Empire St...


Timeline: Major shooting incidents in United States

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:11 AM PDT

Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents in recent times carried out by one or two gunmen in the United States.


Navy SEAL who penned book on Osama operations identified

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:32 AM PDT

The author who has ruffled feathers of many in the Pentagon and CIA by writing a tell-all insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has been identified as a 36-year-old forme...


Empire State building shooting: 2 killed, 8 injured

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:31 AM PDT

Two people were killed and at least eight wounded in a shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday, a New York police source said, creating chaos and shocking tourists and commuters who witne...


Egyptians challenge Islamist president, some scuffle

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT

Opponents of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi scuffled with his supporters on Friday during a demonstration that posed the first test of the Islamist leader's popularity on the street. Egyptians had be...


China's missile advances aimed at thwarting US defenses, analysts say

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:38 AM PDT

China is moving ahead with the development of a new and more capable generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles, giving it a greater capability to hit targets in...


The decline and fall of Norway's boastful killer

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:24 AM PDT

As a marathon trial neared its end, the world of Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik shrank from a globally televised, clench-fisted victory salute to tales of plastic surgery on his nose, failed ...


Hippo stuck in swimming pool dies in rescue operation

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:50 AM PDT

A hippo who wandered into a swimming pool at a South African game reserve three days ago died on Friday before a capture team could pull him out with a crane. Wildlife rescue expert Simon Prinsloo had...


Indian surgeon, dubbed 'Dr Death', to be retried in Australia

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT

An Australian court on Friday quashed an Indian-born surgeon's manslaughter convictions over the deaths of three patients, saying there had been a miscarriage of justice in his trial.


Swiss lab to analyse Arafat remains for poisoning: Hospital

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:39 AM PDT

A Swiss radiology lab said on Friday that it will test the remains of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for polonium poisoning after receiving the go-ahead from his widow.


Norway massacre: Anders Breivik deemed sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:15 AM PDT

Anders Behring Breivik got what he wanted - a prison term instead of an insanity ruling - as he received his sentence Friday for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year.


Greek Prime Minister in crisis talks with Germany's Angela Merkel

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Greece's prime minister was expected to press for more time to make key reforms and spending cuts to keep his debt-wracked country in the eurozone at crisis talks on Friday with Chancellor Angela Merk...


The decline and fall of Norway's boastful killer

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT

As a marathon trial neared its end, the world of Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik shrank from a globally televised, clench-fisted victory salute to tales of plastic surgery on his nose, failed ...

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