This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into…

China says dozens killed in Xinjiang attack

Report says men with knives attack police station in western region, leading to civilian casualties and deadly response.

Last updated: 29 Jul 2014 21:00

Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack in China's far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority, state media…

NYPD officer pictured 'putting seven-months pregnant woman into a chokehold for illegally grilling outside her apartment'

• The incident happened Saturday afternoon, when Brooklyn resident Rosan Miller was caught illegally grilling outside her apartment 
• The arrest allegedly turned violent with an officer pictured wrapping his arm around pregnant Mrs Miller's neck in a…

FISA court judges buying Verizon stock as they approve NSA surveillance

Thatcher's bodyguard says he warned her about underage sex rumours about close aide amid claims senior ministers were named in dossier

• Barry Strevens says he told Iron Lady about rumours about Peter Morrison 
• Thatcher listened during No.10 meeting, but went on to promote her aide
• New claims emerged about dossier…

Liberian man in Lagos being tested for Ebola

Armed Australian police to deploy to MH17 crash site

Female genital mutilation exposed in Swedish class

Published: 20 Jun 2014 11:03 GMT+02:00

Updated: 20 Jun 2014 11:03 GMT+02:00

Some 60 cases of genital mutilation have been discovered in Norrköping in eastern Sweden since March with all 30 girls in one school class found to have undergone the…

Drunken TSA imposter groped women at San Francisco airport

Turkey's Erdogan: 'I stopped talking to Obama'

Man who escaped death TWICE: Cyclist was scheduled to fly on both MH17 and MH370... but changed his mind at the last minute

• Maarten de Jonge, 29, at the last minute changed his mind and decided to fly out of Amsterdam Sunday instead of Thursday
• The cyclist had been scheduled to travel aboard the flight that vanished without a trace over Indian Ocean in March 
  
  
• He still…

‘Friend or Foe’ cutting edge brain scan could identify threats to the US

Police blitz on paedophiles leads to arrest of 660 suspects including doctors, teachers, Scout leaders and care workers

• Police crackdown has led to the arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles
• Includes teachers, Scout leaders, doctors, former officers and care workers
• Arrested on suspicion of downloading and…

Sunni insurgents take over nuclear materials in northern Iraq

Moscow accuses United States of 'kidnapping' Russian hacker

Androids in space! Google sending 3D sensing handsets to space station to become the brains of 'robohelper' satellites that will do chores for astronauts

• Google handsets can track motion in 3D and map their surroundings
• Will become the brains and eyes of ball-shaped hovering robots on the International Space Station
• Soccer-ball sized…

There may have been establishment cover-up of child abuse claims to 'protect the system', says Lord Tebbit

• Ex-Tory party chairman says it was 'more important to protect the system'
• Says it was 'spectacularly wrong' because the abuses have 'grown'
• Government says 114 secret files on paedophile cases have gone…