South Dakota approves guns in the classroom

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:29

Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a bill that would allow school districts to arm staff and teachers with guns to make their schools “safer”.

State Senators on Wednesday voted 21-14 to pass the measure, despite large-scale opposition from school administrators and personnel, who are largely…

‘Screw the Troika’: Hundreds of thousands protest austerity measures across Portugal

Ethnic Albanians clash with police in Macedonia

SKOPJE | Sat Mar 2, 2013 1:14pm EST

(Reuters) - Riot police in Macedonia clashed on Saturday with ethnic Albanian protesters who torched a bus and attacked shops in a second day of violence triggered by the appointment of a former guerrilla fighter as defense minister.…

Gay sex rings, 'The Filth' corrupting the Vatican...and why the Pope REALLY quit

• Sickened by moral corrosion in his own shadowy cabal, Benedict can only rid Rome of its malign influence by resigning... a leading Catholic writer's explosive analysis

By JOHN CORNWELL…

America’s deadly phenomenon: The sinkholes that have swallowed homes, cars and businesses across the country

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 03:44 GMT, 2 March 2013 | UPDATED: 13:43 GMT, 2 March…

PICTURED: The grisly photo of smirking son showing off his mother's head after 'he chopped up her corpse with a power saw'

• Bahsid McLean, 23, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd, 45, and chopping up her body into pieces
• Cops found gruesome pictures of the man and his mother's body on his cell phone
  
  
• Byrd's head, torso, hands, and leg were found in at least…

Fresh from space: Giant 18kg meteorite untouched by human hand discovered in the frozen wastes of Antarctica

• Find is the largest in 25 years in the area - and researchers spotted it against the whiteness of Antartica from 50m away
  
  
• Team discovered 425 meteorites during 40 day expedition 
  
  
• Meteorite has yet to be aged as team is still thawing it…

Paparazzo 'who found fame when he snapped Brad Pitt with another woman' is found dead with a single execution-style bullet wound to his head in Rome

• Daniele Lo Presti discovered lying face down in pool of blood on the street
• Police suggest possible link with his controversial line of work
  
  

By …

Man killed after he was swallowed up by 100ft SINKHOLE under his bedroom pictured for the first time as engineers battle to find him

• Jeff Bush, 37, screamed for help as he was sucked into the hole in Florida
  
  
• Brother: 'I heard him screaming for me but I couldn't do anything'
  
  
• 'Safe to presume' he is dead, say fire officials
• House deemed too unstable to continue rescue effort this…

Two US Navy sailors convicted of rape that shocked Japan

Putin, Obama stress cooperation, pledge to 'avoid deterioration' in relations

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:04

Russia and the US agreed to avoid “negative steps” that could threaten bilateral relations as the two countries' presidents held their first phone conversation since Barack Obama's re-election.

"The leaders of both countries are united in their desire to avoid…

Iraqi army helped Syrian government retake border checkpoint - reports

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:19

The Iraqi army has reportedly shelled Free Syrian Army positions inside Syria near the border with Iraq. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iraq was helping Syrian government forces regain control of a border checkpoint seized by the insurgency.

Syrian troops have recaptured…