Ebola Could Strike 20,000, World Health Agency Says

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and ALAN COWELLAUG. 28, 2014…

True scale of police corruption claims revealed: Almost 100 officers a year are suspended over misconduct allegations

• 460 police officers suspended for alleged corruption since the start of 2009
• Offences include lying about suspects and stealing drugs from police…

Egypt and UAE have been conducting secret air strikes on Libya – report

Russia admits its soldiers have been caught in Ukraine

US and UK should back Assad to defeat ISIS - senior UK MP

Largest earthquake in 25 YEARS rocks San Francisco Bay: 6.0 earthquake leaves 89 injured, buildings destroyed and thousands without power

• The 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Northern California about six miles southwest of Napa around 3:30am Sunday morning
• It was the largest earthquake to hit California since the 1989 Loma Prieta…

Cop who killed Michael Brown started his career at disgraced unit that was DISBANDED over racial tensions - after officers opened fire on fleeing mother and child and beat up another woman 

• Darren Wilson was a rookie cop in Jennings, Missouri
• The small city had a majority of black citizens but an almost completely white police…

Cop suspended over Facebook post branding Ferguson protesters ‘rabid dogs’

2 Swiss banks to end 200-yr secrecy and publish financials

'My mission is vengeance': Man says he killed four in response to US foreign policy

Published time: August 21, 2014 16:23

A Seattle man has told investigators he killed four people in Washington state and New Jersey this year in a mission to avenge the “millions” of lives “taken every single day” by the United States government, according to court documents.

Ali Muhammad…

S. Carolina student arrested after writing about shooting a dinosaur

Life in space? Sea plankton discovered attached to ISS outer hull

Four indicted in Feb. recall of 8.7 million pounds of contaminated beef

'American bombing had signed my death certificate': Missing US journalist James Wright Foley goes unflinching to his death as ISIS behead him in horrific video, as a warning to Obama

• American photojournalist James Wright Foley has been beheaded by ISIS forces
• Foley has been missing since Thanksgiving 2012 while working in…

Suspect dead after officer-involved shooting in St. Louis near Ferguson

NSA bot MonsterMind can wage cyberwar on its own – Snowden

BBC shows episode of Family Guy involving Robin Williams and a failed suicide attempt just minutes before his death is announced

• Social media users fire up over 7Mate's broadcast of old Family Guy episode poking fun at Robin Williams 
  
  
• 'It was a coincidence', Seven spokesperson tells media blog…

'I'm sure you've seen much worse than that': Uncle of Australian SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy who was photographed brandishing the head of a Syrian soldier - taken by his jihadist father - says the image should be dismissed

• Mostafa Sharrouf says Australia should 'forget' about the photo of his nephew 
  
  
• Young son of Khaled Sharrouf was photographed holding the severed head in the northern Syrian city of…

Vigil for St Louis teenager killed by police descends into violence

Skipper of Navy cruiser retreated to cabin for weeks and left 330 crew members leaderless while having 'improper and unduly familiar' relationship with female officer

• A Navy investigation has found Captain Gregory Gombert retreated to his cabin from January to March during a deployment
• He was suffering an undisclosed…