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Japan earthquake and tsunami: Fears of massive death toll
One of the world famous Japanese bullet trains carrying hundreds of passengers has been reported missing with up to 400 passengers feared to have been swept away by the waves. The earthquake, now said to have measured a staggering 9.0 on the Richter scale and said to be ‘one of the great quakes’, sent ten-metre [...]
‘Old Sparky’ electric chair which executed 315 death row inmates to go on display for the first time in 80 years
A Ku Klux Klan robe and a cage that mental patients were locked up in will also go on display at Ohio’s Historical Centre.
Get our people out of Libya: As Gaddafi promises to fight to the death, a British warship is sent to rescue 3,500 expats trapped in bloodbath
The Navy is heading to the coast of Libya to evacuate thousands of Britons as the horrifying scale of Colonel Gaddafi’s bloody repression becomes clear. At least 450 people died in Tripoli and 2,000 are feared killed in Benghazi
Libyan forces storm protest camp on ninth day of protests as death toll in the oil rich country hits 84
In the early hours of Saturday morning special forces attacked hundreds of protesters, including lawyers and judges, camped out in front of the courthouse in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Missing mother Marie Stewart found stabbed to death in home garage
Marie Stewart of Holmfirth, West Yorks, had been missing since before Christmas. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Drunk driver ‘dragged a trapped woman pedestrian 200 yards along a road to her death under his car after hitting her – but didn’t know he had done it’
A court has heard how Kevin Stagg allegedly ploughed into a group of pedestrians and killed mum-of-five Susan Dare who had been walking home with two friends.
How dare they blame my son for Olaf’s death: Call home didn¿t upset bomb hero, he was just exhausted, says widow
It was claimed a poignant phone call from his son had unsettled the bomb disposal expert just hours before he was due to fly back from Afghanistan for two-weeks leave.
Bomb hero Olaf Schmid’s death could not have been prevented, army exonerated
Colonel Bob Seddon, the Army’s top bomb disposal expert who quit last year, described Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid as a ‘phenomenally great’ bomb disposal expert.
Drunk teenager kicked to death woman he’d just met after girlfriend broke his heart
Ryan Backhouse, 19, led Toni Rudman to a deserted industrial estate before subjecting her to a ‘sustained and brutal attack’ in Plumstead, south east London.