• Taliban insurgents poisoned and then shot dead 17 people in an overnight attack on a government-backed militia post in eastern Afghanistan.
  • A village near Lucerne is in shock after a factory worker shot dead two of his colleagues and wounded seven others before turning his gun on himself in Switzerland’s second fatal shooting incident in two months.
  • Reeva Steenkamp’s family has rejected allegations that the model was pregnant when Paralympian Oscar Pistorius shot and killed her.
  • Oscar Pistorius is due to hold a private memorial service for Reeva Steenkamp, the 29-year-old model he shot at his home on St Valentine’s Day. The service was planned at the Pretoria home of his uncle Arnold, where the Olympic...
  • A spokeswoman for Oscar Pistorius says he has reported to authorities in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, under the bail terms in the murder case against him.
  • As prosecutors and police prepare for Oscar Pistorius' murder trial, they are expected to enlist the services of a psychologist to build a profile of the accused. The one person they will not be able to turn to is Micki Pistoriu...
  • Oscar Pistorius’s older brother Carl also faces homicide charges in South Africa over a 2010 car crash in which a female biker was killed.
  • Until a few weeks ago, Ivana Simeoni, 62, was a telephone operator for the emergency services in Latina, south of Rome. Within days she’ll enter the opulent Palazzo Madama as a Senator for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by the comedian-turned-activist Beppe Grillo.
  • Phew! It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Michelle Obama (though probably not as busy as when she was a vice-president of the University of Chicago Medical Centre and a mother-of-two with a partner who was off politicking all the blooming time). She’s been on American TV six times in the past ...
  • Famous film trade mag Variety is adapting for the web by killing off its daily print edition in favour of a once-a-week edition and removing its online paywall. In its honour here are some of its best inside-Hollywood lexicographical inventions (dubbed slanguage):
  • An 18-year-old woman apparently ‘obsessed with necrophilia’ has been accused of having three-way sex on top of the corpses of two men she and her sexual partners allegedly murdered.
  • A teenage girl in the Maldives who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather has been ordered to receive 100 lashes after she confessed to having had pre-marital sex with another man. She is said to be deeply traumatised.
  • In his outgoing address in front of 150,000 people in St Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI today said there had been times when “it seemed like the Lord was sleeping” during his crisis-hit papacy.
  • Pope Benedict XVI has given his final Sunday blessing from his studio window to the cheers of tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square, Rome.
  • The Dutch capital is known for boozy stag nights and pot-smoking tourists. But for what could be the nation's party of the decade — the abdication of Queen Beatrix and accession to the throne of her son Willem-Alexander — Amsterdam wants to keep things low key.
  • An Australian mining billionaire has unveiled the blueprints for Titanic II - an exact replica of the doomed original - but played down reports that the new ship will be unsinkable.
  • These images show the soft opening of a new hotel in China, in which pandas parade through the halls and wait on the guests.
  • The UK Government today hailed an EU agreement to introduce a blanket ban on dumping dead fish back in the sea.
  • Australia's major iron ore port was shut down and residents along a remote stretch of the country's west coast ordered to take shelter as a powerful cyclone bore down on the region today, bringing drenching rains and lashing winds.
  • An internet campaign to raise money for a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to a woman after it fell into his cup has so far raised over $160,000.
  • A fire broke out at an illegal six-storey plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata early this morning, killing at least 19 people, police said.
  • They have suffered a calamitous drop in form on the pitch and last night it emerged that FC Barcelona are implicated a murky tale involving one of their star players.
  • New York’s so-called cannibal cop was ‘mentored’ by a British man in his a plan to kill, cook and eat over 100 women, a court has heard.
  • BP failed to apply its own safety and risk management system to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, in what was a "tragic" and "egregious" oversight, the first witness in a long-awaited civil trial over the 2010 oil spill said.
  • The Italian stock market posted its biggest one-day fall in almost a year, and the financial regulator was forced to impose a short-selling ban on three banks as investors desperately offloaded stocks in response to the inconclusive election result in the eurozone's biggest debtor nation.

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