Seven children and the owners of a kindergarten were hacked to death in northwest China on Wednesday, the latest in a string of assaults on schools, prompting officials to vow to "strike hard" to calm public alarm.
Eleven children were wounded in the attack soon after the school day started in Nanzheng county, a rural corner of Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Two children were in serious condition.
A 48-year-old man, Wu Huanming, used a kitchen cleaver to kill five boys and two girls as well as the mother-son team who owned and ran the private kindergarten, Xinhua said.
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A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.
The Dutch prime minister said everyone on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa, was killed except the child, whose survival was hailed as a miracle.
The boy was taken to a hospital in Tripoli and was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. Libyan TV showed video of the dark-haired child lying in a hospital bed with a bandaged head and wearing an oxygen mask. He had intravenous lines in one arm and appeared to be conscious.
The Dutch prime minister said everyone on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa, was killed except the child, whose survival was hailed as a miracle.
The boy was taken to a hospital in Tripoli and was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. Libyan TV showed video of the dark-haired child lying in a hospital bed with a bandaged head and wearing an oxygen mask. He had intravenous lines in one arm and appeared to be conscious.
What's wrong with Nikita Mirzani, Kiki's ex boyfriend 'The Potters'? After the accused was drunk when attacked Kiki, Wednesday (7/4/2010) the night before, now she is mentioned once raged in the residence of her former lover's.
"She had to Kiki's house hours 2 nights while angry and ngancem Kiki," said Wulan, cousin Brenda, when met at the Park Restaurant Kuring, Jatinegara, East Jakarta, Thursday (8/4/2010
"She had to Kiki's house hours 2 nights while angry and ngancem Kiki," said Wulan, cousin Brenda, when met at the Park Restaurant Kuring, Jatinegara, East Jakarta, Thursday (8/4/2010
WASHINGTON – The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home.
In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his family in Idaho and that the war in Afghanistan is not worth the number of lives that have been lost or wasted in prison. It is the first he has been seen since the Taliban released a video of him on Christmas.
In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his family in Idaho and that the war in Afghanistan is not worth the number of lives that have been lost or wasted in prison. It is the first he has been seen since the Taliban released a video of him on Christmas.
SANTIAGO, Chile – With U.S. President Barack Obama shifting his nuclear nonproliferation strategy to rogue states and terrorists, Chile has become an example of how small countries can play a big part in making the world safer.
Vast amounts of highly enriched uranium, or HEU, is being stored in relatively insecure locations around the world. Just 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of it — the size of a grapefruit — could create a mushroom cloud of radioactivity and devastate an entire city if detonated.
Vast amounts of highly enriched uranium, or HEU, is being stored in relatively insecure locations around the world. Just 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of it — the size of a grapefruit — could create a mushroom cloud of radioactivity and devastate an entire city if detonated.
WASHINGTON – Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an internal e-mail: "We need to come clean" about accelerator problems, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
"We are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet," wrote Irv Miller, group vice president for environment and public affairs. "The time to hide on this one is over."
"We are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet," wrote Irv Miller, group vice president for environment and public affairs. "The time to hide on this one is over."
The decision facing President Truman in January 1950 over whether to build a hydrogen bomb was, the Washington Post said, potentially the gravest and most difficult “that has confronted any chief of the State in war or peace in American history. It may determine the survival of the civilisation that the western world has known for 2,500 years”.
On January 31, the President announced that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to press ahead. The race to stockpile conventional nuclear weapons would continue, but the priority was to develop workable – and portable - weapons using thermonuclear (fusion) explosions, in which compressed hydrogen was exploded by a primary fission bomb, which then set off a third fission stage of the bomb’s outer casing. Hydrogen was a cheap and accessible fuel, and the explosive potential of the fission-fusion-fission chain reaction was vastly greater than that of the atom bomb.
On January 31, the President announced that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to press ahead. The race to stockpile conventional nuclear weapons would continue, but the priority was to develop workable – and portable - weapons using thermonuclear (fusion) explosions, in which compressed hydrogen was exploded by a primary fission bomb, which then set off a third fission stage of the bomb’s outer casing. Hydrogen was a cheap and accessible fuel, and the explosive potential of the fission-fusion-fission chain reaction was vastly greater than that of the atom bomb.
There was never any doubt that Lionel Messi had the technique, temperament and desire to become an all-time great; the only reservation concerned his body, or what there is of it.
If he had been born at the time of Pele or Diego Maradona, his waif’s physique would have stood no chance of survival against assassins such as the Portugal posse in the 1966 World Cup or Andoni Goicoechea, the Butcher of Bilbao, whose brand of ankle-crushing tackle from behind was outlawed in the early 1990s while Messi, aged five, was obtaining his first experience of organised football with a team coached by his father in Rosario, Argentina.
If he had been born at the time of Pele or Diego Maradona, his waif’s physique would have stood no chance of survival against assassins such as the Portugal posse in the 1966 World Cup or Andoni Goicoechea, the Butcher of Bilbao, whose brand of ankle-crushing tackle from behind was outlawed in the early 1990s while Messi, aged five, was obtaining his first experience of organised football with a team coached by his father in Rosario, Argentina.
AT LEAST 93 people were crushed to death and 200 were injured yesterday including many teenagers and children when the FA Cup football semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest turned into Britain's worst sporting tragedy.
Last night police were under pressure to explain why they had allowed between 3,000 and 4,000 Liverpool supporters to surge into the Hillsborough ground in Sheffield just before the kick-off.
Witnesses said that when the new arrivals, who did not have to show their tickets, came on to the terraces, the crowds were forced down the steps towards the fence behind the Liverpool goal.
Last night police were under pressure to explain why they had allowed between 3,000 and 4,000 Liverpool supporters to surge into the Hillsborough ground in Sheffield just before the kick-off.
Witnesses said that when the new arrivals, who did not have to show their tickets, came on to the terraces, the crowds were forced down the steps towards the fence behind the Liverpool goal.
In the space of nine days, Manchester United’s season has lurched dramatically towards disintegration. But none of the usual complaints at this time of year — fatigue, loss of nerve, bad luck, refereeing decisions — can explain the way they went from bust to boom and back again after Sir Alex Ferguson gambled all on the number ten, only to see his winnings disappear over the course of a maddening evening.
At 8.26pm United were coasting into the Champions League semi-finals for the fourth consecutive season and, even if Wayne Rooney’s ankle had begun to trouble him, Ferguson’s great gamble, which extended to a cavalier team selection in which experience gave way to innocence, seemed to have paid off. But a gamble is only successful if you walk away from the table in credit. Many a mug punter will have recognised the way in which United’s night unravelled in front of them.
At 8.26pm United were coasting into the Champions League semi-finals for the fourth consecutive season and, even if Wayne Rooney’s ankle had begun to trouble him, Ferguson’s great gamble, which extended to a cavalier team selection in which experience gave way to innocence, seemed to have paid off. But a gamble is only successful if you walk away from the table in credit. Many a mug punter will have recognised the way in which United’s night unravelled in front of them.
Rafael Benítez believes that he has taken Liverpool as far as he can unless the club’s long-running search for investment bears fruit. The Liverpool manager, laying bare his frustration at seeing the Rhône Group’s deadline for the club to accept its offer lapse on Monday, said that it had caused his optimism to turn to fears of stagnation.
Club officials insist that Rhône’s offer — £100 million for a 40 per cent stake, with the cash being used to reduce the club’s £237 million debt at the behest of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the creditor — has not been withdrawn. However, it is understood that Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the Liverpool owners, were not enticed by a bid that would have left them as minority shareholders.
Club officials insist that Rhône’s offer — £100 million for a 40 per cent stake, with the cash being used to reduce the club’s £237 million debt at the behest of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the creditor — has not been withdrawn. However, it is understood that Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the Liverpool owners, were not enticed by a bid that would have left them as minority shareholders.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Jungle ambush leaves 75 police dead in the bloodiest day of Maoist insurgency
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Maoist rebels killed at least 75 paramilitary police in a jungle ambush in central India yesterday in their bloodiest attack on security forces since their uprising began more than four decades ago.
Up to 700 Maoists took part in the dawn attack on 82 members of the Central Reserve Police Force patrolling forests in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The rebels, known as Naxalites, used automatic weapons and landmines to attack the patrol, and surrounded reinforcements who rushed to the scene in the Bastar region — home to India’s largest iron ore mining company.
Up to 700 Maoists took part in the dawn attack on 82 members of the Central Reserve Police Force patrolling forests in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The rebels, known as Naxalites, used automatic weapons and landmines to attack the patrol, and surrounded reinforcements who rushed to the scene in the Bastar region — home to India’s largest iron ore mining company.
A huge earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering blackouts, widespread panic and tsunami warnings.
The 7.8 magnitude quake, the second major temblor to hit the island in six months struck at 5.15 am local time (2215 GMT) 125 miles off the city of Sibolga, on Sumatra's north west coast, which was devastated in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The 7.8 magnitude quake, the second major temblor to hit the island in six months struck at 5.15 am local time (2215 GMT) 125 miles off the city of Sibolga, on Sumatra's north west coast, which was devastated in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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