Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:43:50 +0000
A Southern California high school student killed two classmates and wounded three others on Thursday, pulling a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun from his backpack and emptying it in a matter of seconds as the school day began. He saved the last bullet for himself. It was his 16th birthday. The teenaged gunman, whose name was […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:37:36 +0000
A French tourist has died after falling from a waterfall while trying to take a selfie in Thailand, police said Friday. The accident happened Thursday afternoon on the tropical island of Koh Samui, whose palm-fringed, white-sand beaches are a magnet for both backpackers and high-end tourists. The 33-year-old man fell from Na Mueang 2 waterfall, […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:15:29 +0000
A prominent Saint Petersburg-based Napoleon expert has confessed to murdering his young lover and former student and dismembering her body in a grisly crime that sent shock waves across Russia. Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France’s Legion d’Honneur from Jacques Chirac in 2003, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder after he […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:07:45 +0000
Hong Kong police opened fire and hit at least one protester on Monday, witnesses and media reports said, as chaos erupted across the city a day after officers fired tear gas to break up demonstrations that are entering their sixth month. Police fired live rounds at protesters on the eastern side of Hong Kong island, […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 04:51:38 +0000
An inmate serving life for murder in the US state of Iowa offered a novel legal appeal, saying he should be released because he “died” four years ago. The Iowa Court of Appeals was unmoved, however, by Benjamin Schreiber’s bid for freedom ruling that the argument — however original — was “unpersuasive.” Schreiber, who was […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:42:34 +0000
SYDNEY (AFP) – A McDonald’s burger allegedly bought in 1995 and kept in an Australian shed for years has never decomposed, according to two men who now refer to the quarter-century Quarter Pounder as their “mate”. Casey Dean, 39, and Eduards Nits, 38, claim they ordered the Quarter Pounder with cheese from a McDonald’s outlet […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:17:07 +0000
A 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida. Patti Ragan, director of the center in Wauchula, Florida, says Sandra is “very sweet and inquisitive” and adjusting to her new home. She was born in Germany and spent […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 04:36:12 +0000
A Croatian animal rights group said Wednesday it would file charges against a local footballer who kicked a chicken to death during a semi-professional match over the weekend. The incident took place on Sunday when a brood of chickens ran onto a pitch in eastern Croatia. One of the players, Ivan Gazdek from the home […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:48:09 +0000
Nine Filipino sailors who were waiting in the harbor of the port of Cotonou in Benin have been abducted by suspected pirates, port authorities said Sunday. “The Autonomous Port of Cotonou regrets to inform you that Saturday morning, November 2, 2019, an act of piracy took place in the harbor area,” authorities said in a […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:02:48 +0000
A 7-year-old girl out trick-or-treating in a bumblebee outfit was critically injured Thursday night during a shooting on Chicago’s West Side. Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says the girl was shot in the lower neck area Thursday and was taken by paramedics to Stroger Hospital. Chicago police say a 30-year-old man was shot in the […]
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