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In the past 24 hours, the hashtag #ChristianTaylor has been used more than 55,000 times, according to the social analytics site Topsy.

“Shafqat Hussain was this morning executed in Pakistan, despite widespread calls, both within and outside the country, for a stay”, the legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan, which was representing Hussain, said in a statement.

Five children and three adults have been found shot to death at a home in northwest Harris County, Texas, according to a local media.

Conservative peer Lord Cormack told World at One: “I know and like Lord Sewel and I was just amazed and very sad”. “Disgusting, isn’t it?”

ROME (AP) – Survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Libya as rescuers approached told investigators that smugglers armed with knives forced people to stay in the trawler’s hold, increasing fears that more than 200 had been trapped inside and drowned, officials...

The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, came to Congress on Wednesday to try to reassure senators but said his agency could not show them the details of the documents. Second, allowing Iran to deal in conventional arms and further enhance its ballistic missile capabilities is...

According to The Dallas Morning News, the silent footage documents Bland being interviewed in her prison uniform, making numerous phone calls and being taken to her jail cell.

NBCDFW 5 News The security footage appears to show Taylor jumping up and down on a windshield in the dealership’s lot after trespassing into the Classic GMC Buick at around 1 a.m. A Taser was also used, but the sequence of events is still not known.

Reuters reports the threat to the Croatian hostage was delivered in a video entitled “A Message to the Egyptian Government”, in which the captive Salopek-clad in the orange jumpsuit ISIS forces on all its prisoners-is made to kneel and identify himself for the camera....

Alberta’s Energy Regulator (AER) says it is looking into what killed the birds at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake facility, about 40 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Curran said AER is investigating whether the bitumen in the water was naturally-occurring or if it was...

Police in the UK came across a problem of the woolly kind recently when they stopped a auto on suspicion of having bald tyres but found it also had a sheep in the boot.

But unlike last summer, when police responded to even peaceful protests with batons, tear gas and rubber bullets in the aftermath of rioting and arson that tore apart the St. Louis suburb of 21,000 people, this time officers watched quietly but did not respond.

Twenty-two people – mostly foreign tourists – were killed in a terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March this year.

Sobel, who had a daughter of her own, died on the scene.

Marcus Hines, Shreveport police representative, said Cannon was taken into authority without occurrence.