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'Virgin' gunman vowed 'sorority sluts' must die before rampage
New York Post - 25 May 2014 07:00
"Blond sorority sluts" must die, "virgin" Elliot Rodger vowed on video before slaughtering six innocents and injuring seven more in a Friday night drive-by shooting spree in California. "On the...
Ukraine votes as fear, war stalk Russia border zone
Reuters - 25 May 2014 03:18
KIEV/DONETSK
Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 28 in three village attacks
Reuters - 25 May 2014 02:10
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
Botched blast targets Nigeria football fans
Al Jazeera English - 25 May 2014 02:34
Botched suicide bombing meant to target football fans kills three in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
Belgium boosts security after attack
BBC - 25 May 2014 01:47
Security is stepped up at Jewish sites across Belgium after a gunman kills three people and seriously injures a fourth at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
Northern Arizona wildfire grows, but officials say firefighters 'making progress'
Fox News - 25 May 2014 09:00
A wildfire burning in rugged terrain in a northern Arizona canyon grew significantly because of fires intentionally set by crews to rob the blaze of its natural forest fuels, officials said Saturday.
No Eden: Atheist group takes on religious-themed public garden
Fox News - 25 May 2014 09:00
A park planned in Sioux City, Iowa is getting national attention.
Pope Francis lands in politically sensitive West Bank
Reuters - 25 May 2014 08:06
BETHLEHEM, West Bank
VIDEO: Police identify California killer
BBC - 25 May 2014 06:36
US police confirm that a man who killed six people in a rampage in California was 22-year-old Elliot Rodger.
D-Day vet snubbed by French will go to Normandy thanks to donations
New York Post - 25 May 2014 06:26
The 90-year-old Staten Island D-Day veteran who learned the ungrateful French won't pay his airfare to attend the invasion's 70th-anniversary ceremony is planning to make his heroic return after all....
Free elections good for Ukraine, bad for Putin
CNN - 25 May 2014 06:04
Election observers in Ukraine explain why Russia's continued interference in the region undermines democracy.
Kim and Kanye tie the knot
CNN - 25 May 2014 03:31
The parents of North West have made it official.
UCSB Death Toll Now 9 With 3 Stabbing Victims at His Home
ABC News - 25 May 2014 03:21
The suspect in the deaths of six people in a mass shooting near the University of California, Santa Barbara, was identified today as a lonely student who promised "retribution" in a video posted hours beforehand.
YouTube Removes Video Posted by Shooting Suspect
The New York Times - 25 May 2014 01:18
Citing violation of its rules against intimidating behavior, the website took down a clip titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution," which the police have connected to shooting attack in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Madonna attacks Malawi's president after attempt to nullify elections
The Guardian - 25 May 2014 00:51
Singer accuses Joyce Banda's government of corruption in latest round of feud, as high court blocks president's call for fresh poll Madonna has seized on political chaos in Malawi to attack its president, Joyce Banda, cl...
Putin Describes Prince Charles 'Hitler' Remark as 'Unacceptable'
IBTimes - 25 May 2014 00:30
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Prince Charles's reported comments comparing him to Adolf Hitler as "unacceptable." Asked at a press conference about the comments Charles was said to have made during a rec...
Christopher Michael-Martinez's Father Gets It Right
The New Yorker - 25 May 2014 20:09
I don’t think I’ve ever been as heartbroken by anything as I was, last night, by the video of Richard Martinez, whose twenty-year-old son, Christopher, a college student at the University of California Santa Barbara,...
Town to vote on whether to change 'Kill Jews' name
Fox News - 25 May 2014 15:29
The tiny Spanish pueblo of Castrillo Matajudios, whose name means "Camp Kill Jews," is holding a referendum to determine whether villagers want to change the name.
EU Set For Election 'Super Sunday,' Far-Right Vote In Spotlight
IBTimes - 25 May 2014 02:30
(Reuters) - European elections reach their culmination on "Super Sunday" when the remaining 20 of the EU's 28 countries go to the polls, with the vote expected to confirm the dominance of pro-European centrists despite a...
Officials: Bungled Explosion Kills 3 in Nigeria
ABC News - 25 May 2014 01:21
Officials: Bungled explosion, 2nd in a week, kills 3 at outdoor theater in Jos, Nigeria
Stanley Prusiner: 'A Nobel prize doesn't wipe the scepticism away'
The Guardian - 25 May 2014 01:05
The neurologist whose discovery of the agent that causes CJD reveals why his finding was greeted with disbelief A scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents but because its opponents eventually die, said i...
Emotional Reading of Names for Post-9/11 War Dead
ABC News - 25 May 2014 00:53
They came to read the names on Saturday, the mothers and fathers, the wives, girlfriends, husbands, children, friends and the brothers-in-arms of 6,790 in the U.S. military who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars fou...