Hackers release financial records for vice president, attorney general, FBI director and others

Porcine pollution: Thousands of dead pigs dumped in Chinese river (PHOTOS)

French nationals fighting alongside Islamists in major conflict zones

US, UK and France training Syrian rebels in Jordan - reports

Wall Street disaster plan: Trade without humans

They told me little Rebecca was dead - but I believe she was stolen to order by Spain's evil baby snatchers

• Ruth Appleby's daughter died shortly after her birth at a Spanish hospital
• Ruth believes baby Rebecca, born 1992, was stolen and sold for adoption
  
  
• Thousands 'stolen and sold' by group of nuns, doctors and officials
  
  
• The…

Teenage sex slave raped 90 times in one weekend despite authorities saying she wasn't at risk

• Girl gave evidence to committee despite still being 'deeply traumatised'
• CSJ report claims efforts to tackle slavery in a state of crisis
• More than 1,000 adults and children trafficked into or within UK in 2011/12
  
  

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20 UN peacekeepers taken hostage by Syrian rebels in Golan Heights

Royal Navy reveals radar that can spot a tennis ball-size object travelling at three times the speed of sound from 15 MILES away

• The radar can detect a fast moving, tennis ball-sized object 15 miles away
• Can cut through interference equivalent to 10,000 conflicting phone signals
• It's five times more efficient than any radar currently used by the…

'Chavez was killed by historical enemies of our homeland': Extraordinary claim by Venezuela's vice-president as he kicks out two U.S. diplomats

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Harrods refuses to allow six women dressed in Welsh national costume into the store on St David's Day  

• Security officer thought costumes clashed with store's dress code
• Group, including doctor and lawyer, wore tall black hats and white aprons
• Harrods apologises for blunder and women allowed in after security checks

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Drunk diplomats ruin UN budget negotiations

Iraqi, Lebanese Shiites unite to ‘protect Damascus shrine from Sunni rebels’

Published time: March 04, 2013 19:01

A Shiite military unit has emerged in Damascus to fight Sunni rebels, while also pledging independence from Syrian President Bashar Assad. The multi-ethnic brigade reportedly claims their only aim to protect a local shrine.

The presence of Shiite combatants from Iraq and…

Chavez's pal or US-backed rich kid: Who will inherit Venezuela?

Published time: March 06, 2013 16:29

An election to be held in Venezuela in 30 days will likely see a tough stand-off between “the Chavez man” Nicolas Maduro and the late president’s main opponent, US-supported Henrique Capriles Radonski.

Three months prior to death, Hugo Chavez made it clear to his loyalists he…

UK to provide armored vehicles and body armor to Syrian opposition

Published time: March 06, 2013 18:13

British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced Wednesday that the UK will provide armored vehicles and body armor to rebel forces in Syria to “help save lives.”

The offer will include millions of pounds of non-lethal aid, which will also include search and rescue, disease…

‘Are my children going to grow up in a country that they can call their own?’ – UKIP leader

Published time: March 05, 2013 00:18

In anticipation of a promised referendum of the UK’s membership of the EU, the key issue is whether Britain will get its democracy and self-governance back so that the future generation can call the country ‘their own’, UKIP leader Nigel Farage told RT.…

Why was she freed to kill again? Woman released after stabbing her own mother is jailed for 37 years for decapitating a grandmother in the street

• Nicola Edgington killed Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath, south east London 
  
  
• She also attacked 22-year-old Sally Clark who managed to fight her off
• She had made five 999 calls asking to be sectioned earlier that…

Is Obama's brother a wife beater? President's sibling is accused of attacking two of his TWELVE wives and seducing a schoolgirl. Now he's using his White House links to launch his own bid for power

• President Obama's half-brother accused of being wife beater
• Roy Abong'o Malik Obama standing for election in Kenya
  
  
• Dismisses wife-beating allegations as being ‘a matter of interpretation’

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One civilian killed, over 400 injured in Port Said clashes

Published time: March 04, 2013 01:47

One person has been reported killed and over 400 injured in clashes in Port Said. Egypt’s army reportedly moved in to stop clashes between protesters and police, sparked by the transfer of prisoners accused of last year’s stadium massacre.

At least one civilian has been killed in clashes in…