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A demonstration against the Free Syrian Army in Damascus has come under fire. Opposition forces have held the Yarmouk district for 8 months. Today residents who fled tried to get back in but were fired on.

The Port Authority of NY & NJ has released a video from the One World Trade Centre spireas itwas being placed atop of the building making it the tallest in the Western hemisphere.

The offices of oil companies Shell, BP and Statoil have been raided by authorities as the European Commission investigates allegations of possible market manipulation of oil and biofuel prices.

The commission said it had ...

David Cameron is to publish a draft bill that will guarantee the British public an in/out EU referendum by 2017.

The Prime Minister is to seize the initiative amid squabbling within the Conservative Party and propose laws...

Paris: PSG Trophy Celebrations Turn Violent

The city's police chief says the club will not be allowed to celebrate on the streets of Paris again after the dreadful scenes.

Celebrations to mark Paris St Germain's first Ligu...

Two teens killed in Melbourne wall collapse

Two pedestrians killed when a wall collapsed in a busy Melbourne street are believed to be teenagers.

rosecutors to investigate causes of gigantic traffic jam in Russia.

The Office of the Russian Prosecutor General have started investigation into ...

An emergency financial manager has been chosen to try to steer the US city of Detroit out of its fiscal crisis.

Kevyn Orr, whose contract will last between 12 and 16 months, said he hopes to help the city avoid bankruptcy...

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has insisted the party is more than just a vehicle for protest after it came second in the Eastleigh by-election, kicking the Conservatives into third place.

He told the party's spring conference ...

Last March was the third warmest ever while March 2013 is already the third coldest. Temperatures are dropping and the cost to councils, firms and consumers is on the rise.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is to call for a bail-like system of security bonds to tackle visa abuse.

The bonds would be paid as a cash guarantee from visa applicants coming from high-risk countries and would be rep...

Syria's state media has accused opposition fighters of firing a chemical weapon in the north of the country, killing up to 25 people.

The opposition quickly denied the report and claimed regime forces fired the weapon.

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The actor who plays Coronation Street's Ken Barlow has seemingly claimed victims of sexual abuse are being punished for their behaviour in "previous lives".

Bill Roache made the comments in a television interview, during ...

David Hasselhoff puts his name behind a campaign to save a section of the historic wall - and in Germany, the Hoff carries weight.

David Hasselhoff has thrown his weight behind a campaign to stop one of the few remaining s...

Officials say the plane may have developed a mechanical problem before crashing into three homes in South Bend, Indiana.

Two people have died when the private jet they were travelling in crashed into three homes in Indiana...

The move to tougher background checks and a ban on high capacity ammunition magazines is the latest in a series of proposals.

The US state of Colorado - the scene of two of the worst shooting massacres in the country's his...

More than 250,000 extra school places will be needed by next year to meet a continuing surge in demand, the spending watchdog has warned.

The rise in the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011 was the la...

Young British servicemen - past and present - are three times more likely to commit violent crime than their civilian counterparts.

Using official criminal records, researchers have found that violent offending is particu...

Jockey JT McNamara has been put into a coma after suffering a serious neck injury during a horse race at the Cheltenham Gold Cup festival.

The Irishman, 37, fell at the first fence while riding Galaxy Rock in the Fulke Wa...

The MP Eric Joyce has been arrested after an alleged fight in a bar at the House of Commons, Sky sources say.

The independent Member of Parliament for Falkirk was held after the incident at the Sports and Social Club bar....

Archaeologists say 12 skeletons found beneath a building site in London could provide evidence of a Black Death burial ground.

The remains were found by teams working on Crossrail - a £15bn project to improve transport li...

An SAS sniper jailed for illegally possessing a weapon and ammunition says he is "hopeful" of persuading the Court of Appeal to overturn his convictions.

Sergeant Danny Nightingale, who has spent 11 years in Special Force...

An Iowa police officer was capturedon camera pulling an unconscious teenager from his blazing car. the teen had become trapped inside his vehicle after crashing into the side of a church while doing doughnuts in it's parki...

Five firefighters have been injured battling a fire in northern New Jersey after a backdraft explosion captured on video ripped through the building.

Footage of the explosion shows smoke spewing from the structure seconds...

Attempts were made to stop the Gun show but there is no law to prevent it.

Falkland Islanders begin two days of voting today in a referendum to decide whether they want to stay British.

The question they have to answer is whether they want to remain an Overseas Territory of Britain, and there is...

The radical cleric, who has been convicted of terror charges, is arrested in London for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.

Abu Qatada has been arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions, days ahead of a new...

Hugo Chavez: World Leaders To Attend Funeral

Venezuelans are preparing for the late president's funeral later today - amid plans to have him embalmed "like Lenin".

World leaders will attend the funeral of the late Venezuel...

Brisbane Mall Siege: Gunman Held By Police

Streets and shops are evacuated as police are confronted with an armed man and shoot him down with rubber bullets.

A gunman is in police custody after being shot with rubber bulle...

John Kerry has arrived in the UK at the start of his first overseas trip as America's new Secretary of State pledging "new ideas" to try to resolve the Syrian crisis.

Speaking at a news conference alongside British Foreig...

Heavy rains has caused flooding in Itlay and Greece. Rivers have overflowed and brought down trees.

Gunshots fired from a black Range Rover on the Las Vegas Strip has caused a Maserati to crash into a taxi, creating a fireball and killing three people.

A rapper was one of three people killed when gunmen in a 4x4 open...

An explosion leveled the site where JJ's Restaurant once stood. The explosion and fire were reportedly caused by a gas leak in the area. Gas officials had been evacuating the building when something sparked the explosion.

Ireland's Prime Minister choked back tears as he issued an apology to thousands of women who were subjected to regimes of hard work and prayer in Catholic-run workhouses.

Enda Kenny, known as the Taoiseach, described the ...

A forest fire that engulfed a hill in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso destroyed at least 70 homes and forced the evacuation of more than 500 families, officials said on Thursday.

Chile's emergency office, ONEMI, issue...

TWO Merseyside men have been jailed after underground cannabis growing bunkers were found hidden inside huge railway tunnels in North Wales.

Offic...

The next Pope could be black if the bookmakers' odds are to be believed, with a Nigerian and a Ghanaian among the frontrunners.

Cardinal Francis Arinze is at 11/2 and Cardinal Peter Turkson is at 3/1 to become the next Po...

Details are emerging about the former police officer at the center of a massive manhunt as the high-altitude search for him enters its second day.

Court documents show an ex-girlfriend of Christopher Dorner, the suspect i...

A 40m-long chunk of rock hurtling through space will pass closer to the Earth than any other near miss on record, Nasa is expected to say.

Scientists at the space agency are expected to reveal the reassuring news for Eart...

Scientists have taken a step closer to creating artificial human organs and using them for transplants after 3D printing produced clusters of stem cells.

In the short term, the technique could be used to generate tissue f...

The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has spoken out about her recovery for the first time since she was nearly killed.

In a video interview, 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who is having reconstructive s...

After the floods over the Christmas Holiday many people and businesses are still picking up the peices from the devastation caused by flodding. Mp's say that not enough was done to protect homes.

Five people have been killed after an explosion on a truck carrying fireworks caused a road bridge to collapse in central China.

The blast happened on the Yichang Bridge in Henan Province, injuring another eight people, a...

A human rights group has accused Vladimir Putin of presiding over Russia's worst political crackdown since the fall of the Soviet Union.

New York-based Human Rights Watch has warned the nation has been experiencing the mo...

They will be the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy, each weighing 65,000 tonnes and with their length equal to 28 London buses.

Now the hull of one of these two mammoth aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth,...

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has surprised voters by announcing the date of a general election early... shortly after a toe-curling gaffe by her partner.

Ms Gillard said that a general election will be held on...

An entire building complex has been swallowed by a sinkhole in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

State television reported that the first three-story building collapse occurred at around 4pm in the afternoon, then a...

The survivor of a deadly attack on a 16-member Colombian-style music group has told authorities how at least 10 gunmen entered a private party and kidnapped the band and four crew members.

A member of the Kombo Kolombia b...