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• newFaith healing parents 'still believers'

  

  A FATHER whose son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009 says he still believes in faith healing despite the death of another child.    
  - 25 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:12pm -
• new'Love you': Slain soldier's final text

  

  THE family of Lee Rigby, brutally slain in the street by Muslim extremists, have revealed his final message to them and spoken of their loss.    
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:09am -
• newMI5 'tried to recruit Woolwich suspect'

  

  A FRIEND of one of the Woolwich fanatics is arrested moments after telling BBC that M15 attempted to recruit his friend to work for them.    
  - 5 hours ago, 25 May 13, 8:34am -
• newGas blast on school bus kills 17

  

  A GAS cylinder explosion on a school bus has killed at least 17 children in eastern Pakistan.    
  - 8 hours ago, 25 May 13, 5:28am -
• newStockholm riots enter sixth night

  

  NEARLY a week of riots puts Sweden's reputation as an oasis of peace at risk and sparks debate over the integration of immigrants.    
  - 9 hours ago, 25 May 13, 4:58am -
• new'Racist attack' on star's grave

  

  THE grave of Hollywood star Michael Clarke Duncan has been vandalised in an apparent racial attack, say the Green Mile star's family.    
  - 11 hours ago, 25 May 13, 2:59am -
• newPassengers in threat to blow up plane

  

  UPDATE: TWO men expected to be charged  after threatening to blow up a passenger jet over Britain, sparking panic on board and a fighter jet to be scrambled.    
  - 11 hours ago, 25 May 13, 2:44am -
• newFemale zoo keeper killed by tiger

  

  A FEMALE zoo worker who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park in Cumbria has died, police say.    
  - 13 hours ago, 25 May 13, 12:38am -
• newAussie appeals over Dubai jailing

  

  AUSTRALIAN businessman Matthew Joyce lodges appeal against jail sentence in the United Arab Emirates for a property deal that went sour.    
  - 14 hours ago, 24 May 13, 11:38pm -

• newSyria town under heavy army shelling

  

  Rebel positions in Qusair in western Syria come under heavy shelling as government troops step up their offensive to recapture the strategic town.
  - 10 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:27pm -
• newRosberg beats Hamilton to pole

  

  Nico Rosberg beats Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix.
  - 11 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:26pm -
• newMayor 'sorry' for US brothel remarks

  

  Osaka's outspoken mayor apologises for saying US troops in Okinawa should visit legal brothels as a way of curbing sexual crimes there.
  - 12 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:25pm -
• newDeaths in Philippines militant clash

  

  At least seven marines and five militants are killed as troops tackle Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines, the military says.
  - 18 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:19pm -
• newWarnings over flagship projects

  

  More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government report warns.
  - 34 mins ago, 25 May 13, 1:03pm -
• newVIDEO: Pakistan bus fire kills at least 16

  

  At least 16 children, some as young as five, have died on their way to school, after a gas cylinder exploded on the bus they were travelling on.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:57am -
• newFrench army in major Mali pullout

  

  France begins a key stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops to push Islamist rebels out of the north.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:33am -
• newFifty anthems for the African continent

  

  Fifty chart-toppers that have kept Africa beating
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:30am -
• newMurder sparks anti-Muslim backlash

  

  There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, an inter-faith charity says.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:29am -
• newPakistan bus fire kills 16 children

  

  At least 16 children and a teacher are killed in a fire on their school bus in the eastern Pakistan of Gujrat, police say.
  - 3 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:07am -

• newPriest who defied Mafia is beatified in Sicily

  

  An Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-Mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honored by the Vatican as a martyr.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 12:03pm -
• new10 things to know for the Champions League final

  

  It's time for the biggest game in club soccer — brought to you by Germany.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:47am -
• new'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU

  

  Croatia may be on the doorstep of the European Union, but in this tiny village another union of nations was getting all the glory.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:12am -
• newEx-sex slave says Japan mayor's remark 'absurd'

  

  A former sex slave says a Japanese mayor's remarks about Japan's wartime sex slavery are "absurd." Kim Bok-dong, who is from South Korea, was referring Saturday to comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.
  - 3 hours ago, 25 May 13, 10:56am -
• new'Friend' of suspect in UK soldier's killing arrested

  

  Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 10:06am -
• newDozens march in Ukraine's first-ever gay rally

  

  At least 50 gay rights activists have marched peacefully in the country's first gay rally despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 10:02am -
• new'Friend' of suspect in UK slaying arrested

  

  Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:58am -
• newIn Ethiopia, African Union celebrates 50 years

  

  Dozens of African leaders are meeting in the Ethiopian capital to mark 50 years since the founding of the African Union, a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:53am -
• newFemale suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region of Dagestan

  

  A female suicide bomber identified as a widow of two killed Islamists blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday injuring at least 12, including two children and five police officers, police said.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:38am -
• newJordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict

  

  Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:35am -

World News

• new17 dead after school van explodes in central Pakistan

  

  At least 17 people were killed when a school van exploded in central Pakistan earlier today.
  - 4 hours ago, 25 May 13, 9:53am -
• newWoolwich terrorist attack: Friend claims MI5 tried to recruit Michael Adebowale

  

  One of the men involved in the brutal Woolwich attack last Wednesday had been asked to work for MI5, a friend told the BBC.Abu Nusaybah told the BBC's Newsnight on Friday that Michael Adebolajo had been approach six months ago to work for the spy age…
  - 6 hours ago, 25 May 13, 8:07am -
• newToronto mayor denies crack cocaine allegation

  

  Toronto's mayor has denied smoking crack cocaine amid claims of video footage proving otherwise.
  - 13 hours ago, 25 May 13, 1:02am -
• newTaliban battle Kabul police after compound attacked

  

  Taliban militants launched a large-scale attack in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces.
  - 14 hours ago, 24 May 13, 11:16pm -
• newSwedish police call in back-up after worst riots in years

  

  Police in Stockholm had to call in reinforcements after rioters set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, described as the worst in years.
  - 15 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:20pm -
• newIndonesia's central bank chief urges banks to compete overseas

  

  Indonesia's new central bank governor has urged the country's banks to be ready to compete internationally as authorities seek access to foreign markets.
  - 16 hours ago, 24 May 13, 9:31pm -
• newLee Rigby's family speaks about their grief following the soldier's Woolwich murder

  

  The family of Lee Rigby has spoken for the first time about their shock and grief following the soldier's murder in London.The 25-year-old Afghan war veteran was killed near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, on Wednesday.Dr…
  - 16 hours ago, 24 May 13, 9:25pm -
• British fighter jets escort Pakistani passenger plane after on-board incident

  

  British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a passenger plane to an airport outside London after the crew activated an emergency alarm.The Pakistan International Airways flight from Lahore, with 297 people on board, was originally destined for Manc…
  - 1 day ago, 24 May 13, 1:26pm -
• Woolwich terrorist attack: British intelligence under pressure over suspects' extremist links

  

  Britain's intelligence services have come under pressure to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in the streets of London slip through their net.Both of the men, under armed guard in London hospitals aft…
  - 1 day ago, 24 May 13, 12:13pm -

• newGirl, 5, killed by suicide jumper

  

  A 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment landed on top of her, police said.
  - 21 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:30pm -
• newSwedish capital hit by fifth night of riots

  

  Police in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have called in reinforcements after the city's suburbs were hit by a fifth night of riots.
  - 21 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:29pm -
• newWho was slain British soldier?

  

  The British soldier slain in a gruesome cleaver attack in London was a well-liked infantryman and machine gunner who served in Afghanistan and Cyprus, and then became a military recruiter and ceremonial drummer outside the Royal Palaces, the military…
  - 21 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:29pm -
• new2 arrested after Pakistan flight diverted in UK airspace

  

  A UK fighter jet was scrambled to escort a Pakistan International Airlines flight as it was diverted Friday from northwestern England's Manchester Airport to London's Stansted Airport.
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:54pm -
• newActor in drag exposes harassment

  

  A man dresses as a woman and goes undercover to expose sexual harassment in Egypt. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:51pm -
• newRussia's Far East rocked by quake

  

  A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck the Russian Far East on Friday, the U.S. Geologicial Survey reported.
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:51pm -
• newU.S. family may exhume son's body

  

  The parents of American Shane Todd, found hanging in his Singapore apartment last June, tell CNN they may exhume their son's body to conduct an autopsy in the United States.
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:49pm -
• newWinnie Mandela's financial woes

  

  "This shouldn't be happening" -- these were the words of a visibly nervous and frustrated sheriff of the court as he rang the outside bell and knocked at the gate belonging to a woman still considered by many in South Africa as the "mother of the nat…
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:48pm -
• newReport: Militants claim Niger attacks

  

  An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadly attacks on an army barracks and a uranium mine in Niger, saying they were responses to Niger's cooperation with France in a "war against Sharia," CNN affiliate BFMTV reported…
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:47pm -
• newJournalist escaped the Taliban

  

  In his first television interview, photographer Pierre Borghi describes his kidnapping and escape from a Taliban prison.
  - 22 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:42pm -

• newSudan suspends two biggest dailies for critical coverage: editors

  

  KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security services temporarily suspended the country's two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on Saturda…
  - 59 mins ago, 25 May 13, 12:38pm -
• newAid groups urge EU to fulfil commitments to Palestinians

  

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A group of 80 international aid agencies urged the European Union on Saturday to follow through on pledges it made last year to back Palestinian communities seen as vulnerable to Israeli settlement expansion in the occ…
  - 1 hour ago, 25 May 13, 12:36pm -
• newSyrian opposition resumes unity talks key to peace conference

  

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at creating a coherent front crucial to a proposed international peace conference, struggling under Western and Arab pressure to close their fractious ranks and elect a viable le…
  - 1 hour ago, 25 May 13, 12:31pm -
• newAs border tightens, some U.S.-Mexico neighbors reach across the fence

  

  NACO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican activist Maria Elena Borquez takes up a paintbrush and daubs a bright splotch of color on the rusted steel fence separating the small Mexican town of Naco from a neighboring town in the United States.
  - 1 hour ago, 25 May 13, 12:30pm -
• newUkraine's first gay march held under police protection

  

  KIEV (Reuters) - About 100 Ukrainian gay rights activists held the country's first gay rally on Saturday, helped by police who arrested 13 people for trying to break up the march.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 12:03pm -
• newInterpol rejects Russia's 'political' case against fund manager Browder

  

  MOSCOW - Interpol has refused to include UK-based fund manager William Browder on its international search list after deciding that Russia's tax evasion case against him is "of a predominantly political nature".
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:36am -
• newSuicide car bombing in Russia's Dagestan injures 11

  

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media reported.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:30am -
• newHezbollah, Syria government forces push for advance in Qusair

  

  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah launched a fierce campaign to seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:27am -
• newBritish police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case

  

  LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police arrested a man at the BBC's headquarters after an interviewee said that security services tried to recruit one of the two suspects in the murder of a soldier in London.
  - 2 hours ago, 25 May 13, 11:16am -
• newPakistan school bus explosion and blaze kill 17 children: media

  

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said.
  - 3 hours ago, 25 May 13, 10:53am -