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US supermarket worker shoots dead two, kills self A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style automatic rifle and a handgun shot dead two people Friday at a supermarket in a town near New York, and then shot himself.

02 September 2012

Russia says 'naive' to expect Assad to halt fire first Russia said Saturday it would be "naive" for outside powers to expect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to withdraw his troops first from major cities and then wait for the opposition to follow suit.

01 September 2012

Woman's torso found at foot of Niagara Falls A woman's headless torso was found at the base of the Niagara Falls, Canadian police said Thursday, ruling out any links to a similar body parts case in Toronto.

01 September 2012

Australian given 21 years jail for Facebook murder A man who befriended a teenage Australian girl on the social media site Facebook before luring her to a secluded spot and killing her was imprisoned for at least 21 years on Friday.

01 September 2012

Hurricane Kirk strengthens in Atlantic Hurricane Kirk strengthened rapidly over the open Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, though it posed no hazard to land, US forecasters said.

01 September 2012

Death toll in China mine blast rises to 37 The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in China has risen to 37, with another 10 people trapped, authorities said Friday, in one of the country's worst mining accidents of the last year.

31 August 2012

After drenching New Orleans, Isaac threatens dam Authorities in two states along the US Gulf Coast urged residents to seek shelter Thursday amid fears a dam could fail, as a weakening Isaac doused an already drenched region.

31 August 2012

Afghans among 54 rescued from asylum boat Afghans were among the 54 survivors from an asylum-seeker boat that disappeared two days ago off the Indonesian coast, but hopes of finding about 100 more missing were fading fast on Friday.

31 August 2012

Hurricane Isaac makes landfall, New Orleans braces Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday made landfall in Louisiana and barreled towards New Orleans, seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the "Big Easy" and killed 1,800 people on the US Gulf Coast.

31 August 2012

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Death penalty confirmed for Mumbai attacks gunman India's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentence handed down to Mohammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.

31 August 2012

US withheld email evidence in WikiLeaks case: defense Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military Tuesday of withholding hundreds of emails over fears of a publicity nightmare.

30 August 2012

Deadly bombing hits loyalist funeral outside Damascus A car bomb rocked the funeral of two government loyalists in a Damascus suburb killing 27 people on Tuesday as the army kept up its bombardment of rebel strongholds in the east of the capital.

30 August 2012

Angry families demand funds over US shooting Families of victims of the Colorado movie theater shooting voiced anger Tuesday over the distribution of funds intended for them, saying they had so far received only a tiny slice.

30 August 2012

Violence breaks out at massive Chile student protest Clashes broke out Tuesday in Santiago between police and tens of thousand of demonstrators demanding education reform.

29 August 2012

Death toll from S. Korea typhoon climbs to 15 South Korean rescuers Wednesday resumed a search for 10 missing crewmen from two Chinese fishing boats as the confirmed death toll from a strong typhoon rose to 15.

29 August 2012

Divided Ukraine awaits Tymoshenko appeal ruling Ukraine's high court rules Wednesday on former premier Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal against her seven-year jailing on charges the West views as President Viktor Yanukovych's political revenge.

29 August 2012

Fire at Venezuela oil refinery spreads A devastating fire at Venezuela's main oil refinery, which has already left 48 people dead, spread Monday to a third fuel storage tank, complicating the difficult task facing firefighters.

29 August 2012

Foresters keep quenching smoldering trees on Mokhnatka mount 40 foresters continue quenching smoldering roots and trunks of trees on Mokhnatka mount in Ile-Alatau national park.

29 August 2012

Syria foreign minister accuses US of stoking violence Syria's foreign minister accused the United States of being the "major player" encouraging anti-government rebels, but vowed the regime would not deploy chemical weapons in an interview published Tuesday.

29 August 2012