Stone was one of three young American friends who helped overpower a Kalashnikov-toting suspected Islamist militant on a high speed train heading for Paris from Amsterdam.
Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said Asaad’s family had informed him that the scholar, who had been held for over month, was beheaded in Palmyra on Tuesday, according to the Guardian.
Practically all of the adults in Britain who are now using e-cigarettes are smokers who are using the devices to try to quit smoking, and only 2 percent of youths were regular users.
PRIME Minister David Cameron has unveiled radical plans to increase the number of quality apprenticeships across England – from nuclear engineers to tailors and butchers.
Egypt’s interior ministry said that a auto had exploded outside the police building, which houses a centre for investigating threats to national security, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Its homegrown status likely makes it more attentive to local sentiment. Wrecked...
An Israeli air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights killed at least four Palestinian militants responsible for Thursday’s rocket fire on an Israeli village, an Israeli defense official said on Friday.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Mr Asaad was beheaded in the square outside the museum in Palmyra where he had been in charge since the 1960s. Militants then hung his body from a Roman column at an archeological site in Palmyra.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Monday disclosed plans by the Federal Government to recruit 10,000 policemen in his address at the National Security Summit on Community Partnership Approach to Internal Security and Crime Management, organised by the...
Firefighters brace for more high winds in the forecast through Friday that threaten to stoke wildfires burning across Eastern Washington. The sun rises in smokey air over a burnt-out ridge along Twisp River Road in Twisp, Wash.
Hammond’s Tehran trip, the first by a British foreign secretary in almost 12 years, follows visits from the French and Italian foreign ministers, Germany’s vice chancellor, and the European Union’s foreign policy chief.
He asked residents to hold their trash and recycling until the following week or deliver it to one of the city’s five Sanitation Convenience Centers, which will have extended hours from September 24 to October. 4.
Horace Julian Bond, born on January 14 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee, spent all of his adult life fighting injustice, through advocacy, the legislature and activism. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the NAACP and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center....