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Man sets woman on fire for debt of $2,000
12:50 19.12.2011 |
World
Deloris Gillespie goes up in the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man is waiting. His face is one she surely must have recognized.
Czech Republic mourns its national hero, Vaclav Havel
11:47 19.12.2011 |
World
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75.
North Korea's Kim Jong-il dies in his train
08:29 19.12.2011 |
World
The long-standing leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, has died, the central television channel of North Korea said. According to official information, he died on December 17 at 08:30 a.m. local time at the time when he was traveling in his train across the country
Surrogate liquor kills at least 125 in India
18:19 15.12.2011 |
World
An adulterated batch of bootleg liquor has killed at least 125 drinkers in eastern India, with dozens more arriving at a cramped rural hospital with poisoning symptoms.
Jacques Chirac handed suspended prison term for political corruption
17:41 15.12.2011 |
World
Former French president Jacques Chirac was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for political corruption on Thursday in an unprecedented ruling by a Paris court.
Belgian attacker leaves no explanation about why he did it
16:43 14.12.2011 |
World
A man who went on a grenade and gun attack in the Belgian city of Liege left no explanation about why he did it, authorities said Wednesday.
There were at least 124 people in hospitals Wednesday, and at least five dead plus the gunman, according to prosecutor Danielle Reynders.
