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Happy Days

Thai hotel reacts to military coup by extending happy hour

23 May 2014

16.5k

Death Penalty

Tennessee becomes first US state to bring back electric chair

23 May 2014

16.0k

Fair Pay

Pics: McDonald's workers continue protest over low wages

23 May 2014

14.2k

STrength

Climber falls down 70ft crevasse, rescued after asking for help on Facebook

23 May 2014

29.3k

in flames

Blaze engulfs iconic Glasgow School of Art building

23 May 2014

7.4k

Indecent Assault

Former BBC presenter Stuart Hall receives a further two years in prison

23 May 2014

11.0k

Boko Haram

US says no one else is helping find abducted girls in Nigeria - despite help from Britain, France, Israel

23 May 2014

8.8k

United States

Californian man charged with decade-long kidnap of ex-girlfriend's daughter

23 May 2014

10.4k

Melbourne

VIDEO: Australian police release video of 'Irish men' involved in alleged assault

22 May 2014

48.1k

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Investigation

Canadian police investigating Pamela Anderson rape claims

22 May 2014

37.6k

Violence

Pro-Russian rebels kill 17 Ukrainian troops ahead of vote

22 May 2014

7.2k

China

VIDEO: Two men save baby after it falls out window

22 May 2014

34.9k

ssssspa day

Zoo offers 'snake massages' from four giant, deadly pythons

22 May 2014

15.4k

Guardian Angels

Parents of newborn baby thank Ireland after Irish-funded operation saves their son

22 May 2014

20.1k

A Prince Among Stones

Former Rolling Stones manager Rupert Loewenstein dies aged 80

22 May 2014

7.1k

hey prime minister

Australian PM says sorry for sex line wink

22 May 2014

20.3k

Takeover

Thai army seizes power in military coup

22 May 2014

10.4k

diplomatic incident

Russian diplomat for talks over Charles' Putin-Nazi comment

22 May 2014

9.9k

whitey bulger

Benedict Cumberbatch to play Johnny Depp's Irish mobster brother

22 May 2014

14.4k

Terrorism

Street market explosion kills 31 people in China

22 May 2014

5.0k

Diplomacy

Eamon Gilmore calls for support on UN Syria, but Russia's already said no

22 May 2014

3.4k

California

Kidnapped woman found 10 years after she disappeared - thanks to Facebook

21 May 2014

29.2k

New York

Police officers and rabbi among 70 arrested on child pornography charges

21 May 2014

15.4k

Support

US sends 80 extra troops to Chad to help in search for missing schoolgirls

21 May 2014

6.3k

Taipei

Four killed, 21 wounded during subway stabbing spree in Taiwan

21 May 2014

7.2k

Newsnight

Paxman to Berlusconi: "Is it true you called Merkel an un-f***able lard-arse?"

20 May 2014

29.1k

remnants of war

Floods unearth land mines in Bosnia - and wash away warning signs

20 May 2014

11.2k

deadly blasts

"Cruel and evil" twin car bomb attack kills 46 in Nigeria

20 May 2014

6.1k

Bomb Fraud

Woman called in a bomb threat to graduation - to stop her family finding out she had left college

20 May 2014

24.0k

Rate Fixing

EU regulator levels 'cartel' charge against three top banks

20 May 2014

6.8k

Sava river

"This is Armageddon": Thousands flee Balkans floods in Bosnia's worst exodus since war

20 May 2014

11.3k

World Cup

Brazil worried World Cup will mean surge in child prostitution

20 May 2014

15.6k

Bangkok

Martial law declared as armed troops take to streets of Thailand

20 May 2014

8.7k

Terrorism

Abu Hamza found guilty of kidnapping and terrorism offences

19 May 2014

12.7k

merriam-webster

'Selfie', 'hashtag' and 'tweep' added to the dictionary

19 May 2014

11.4k

dog day afternoon

Dozens of dogs get hitched in mass canine wedding

19 May 2014

9.9k

DSK

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not happy with a film based on his sex scandal

19 May 2014

12.4k

Rainfall

More flooding expected in the Balkans as rivers reach new peaks

19 May 2014

4.9k

phone-y war

Cyberwars: The United States has charged five Chinese military hackers

19 May 2014

6.8k

War Crimes

Bosnian Serb ex-army chief's defence case opens against charges of genocide

19 May 2014

5.6k

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