Terminally ill reality TV star Jade Goody is beginning her first day as a married woman after her “dream” wedding to Jack Tweed. Jade Goody was “bald and proud” when she wed Jack Tweed “It was just a wonderful day. Perfect, she looked gorgeous,” her publicist Max Clifford said after the ceremony in Hertfordshire. [...]
A bomb blast at the heart of the Egyptian capital’s tourist district has left one person dead and 23 injured. Police said a French woman was killed in the explosion on Sunday outside Cairo’s historic Hussein mosque in the popular Khan el-Khalili bazaar area. Egyptian, French, German and Saudi nationals were injured by flying stone [...]
A teenage boy has been jailed for life for murdering his 16-year-old friend in a row over a Playstation. Conor Black (left) and Shane Boyd were said to be ‘good’ friends Shane Boyd, also 16, stabbed Conor Black to death outside a house party in August last year. Black was with a group of [...]
At least two people have been killed and 44 others injured after two Tamil Tiger aircraft attacked the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, officials say. Sri Lankan military officials said one aircraft was shot down over the international airport on Friday, while the other was shot and crashed into a government building in Colombo’s Fort area. [...]
Gossip” that US top brass are unhappy with the performance of UK armed forces in Afghanistan has been dismissed by Defence Secretary John Hutton. British Army soldiers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A flurry of reports suggested that US military commanders were unimpressed by aspects of the British effort in the country. They allegedly singled [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has announced a $75bn plan to help millions of US homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages and those at risk of losing their homes. The plan will help as many as five million families restructure or refinance mortgages to avoid foreclosure, the president said on Wednesday in a speech delivered [...]
Police are hunting for a murderer who went on the run after escaping from a secure mental hospital. Paul Caesar fled Springfield Hospital yesterday morning Paul Caesar was being held at Springfield Hospital in Tooting, south London, after being convicted of murder in 1996. Police described him as dangerous and urged members of the [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has approved the deployment of an extra 17,000 troops for Afghanistan, the White House has confirmed. The deployment would include an additional US army brigade and a marine expeditionary force, along with support staff, Obama said in a statement on Tuesday. “This increase is necessary to stabilise a deteriorating situation [...]
Jade Goody’s high-profile fight for life will inspire thousands of women across Britain to get screened for cervical cancer, one of the country’s leading charities has said. Jade is preparing to marry after finding out her cancer is terminal The 27-year-old reality TV star has been told by doctors that she has six weeks [...]
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia has begun the first ever war crimes trial of a Khmer Rouge leader – 30 years after the fall of the regime. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was taken by bullet-proof car from his jail cell to the court in the capital Phnom Penh for initial procedural hearings [...]