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email MOSS POINT, MS (WLOX) - Five teens are now under arrest in connection with the brutal attack and robbery of a Moss Point couple. Police said 78-year-old Harold Stirewalt and his 60-year-old wife...

A British man was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison for drug trafficking by a judge in Venezuela.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped 3 foreign aid workers on Saturday in a raid on a Kenyan border town, the latest attack on relief workers, an official and Somali residents said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Seven foreigners were among those killed in the bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a police official.

Investigators worked Saturday to identify two suicide bombers who attacked American luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital and health officials confirmed at least four of the dead were foreigners. Suicide bombers posing as guests attacked the J.W. Marriott and...

. Co-ordinated attacks on neighbouring buildings. Killers checked in and made bombs in roomsThe menace of international terrorism returned to Indonesia when explosions ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta, killing eight guests and injuring at least 50 others.Two suicide bombers who had checked in as hotel guests triggered the blasts, which occurred within minutes of each other at the neighbouring JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the Indonesian capital's business district.Two Australians and a New Zealander were reportedly among the dead, and the wounded included 18 other foreign nationals from the US, Australia, Canada, India, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea. The Foreign Office said it had no indication of any British casualties.The attack forced Manchester United, who are on a pre-season tour of south-east Asia, to cancel a friendly fixture against an Indonesian XI in Jakarta on Monday. The team, currently in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, had planned to sta

Investigators worked Saturday to identify two suicide bombers who attacked American luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital and health officials confirmed at least four of the dead were foreigners. Suicide bombers posing as guests attacked the J.W. Marriott and...

. Under fives three times more likely to need hospital. Warning that schools may not reopen in autumnUnder-fives and pregnant women are emerging as key swine flu risk groups, according to hospital figures and the age profiles of those who have already died.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) altered its advice this week to include the youngest age range - the under-fives - in the category of those 'predominantly affected' while the Royal College of Midwives gave fresh advice todayon giving expectant women anti-viral drugs.The shift in emphasis by health officials is a reminder that even if the final death rates from the pandemic are the same as normal seasonal flu, the social impact will be significantly different, with the disease apparently targeting the young more than elderly people. In normal seasonal flu it is the elderly who usually succumb through developing pneumonia.Altogether, 29 people have died from swine flu in the UK. A patient from Swindon and a female tourist who died

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