World Conflict & Tragedy News

A police officer testified November 18th that Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone." October 21st,...

The death toll following a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China that killed 42 workers and left 66 miners trapped underground on Saturday was expected to rise, local media reported. The explosion occurred at 2:30 am in...

We have heard of murders committed for gains or for taking revenge. We have heard of serilal killers who take an unholy delight in watching lives being snuffed out. But this one is certainly strange. Here, the murderers kill so...

Pakistan’s intelligence service is secretly sheltering the Taliban’s top leader, US intelligence sources tell the Washington Times. Helping Mullah Omar escape from the town of Quetta, along the Afghanistan border, to the port city of Karachi, deep within Pakistan. The...

You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold...

Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah...

Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani during his meeting with the visiting CIA chief Leon Panetta stressed that the new US strategy for Afghanistan should not affect regional balance in South Asia. Leon Panetta on the occasion asserted that the...

Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said during a Free Patriotic Movement dinner in Beit Mari on Friday that Interior Minister Ziad Baroud’s orders should be respected within his ministry. He commented on the recent controversy in the Internal...