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Watch this dramatic capture of British fugitive Andrew Moran. The fugitive was caught sunbathing on a rooftop of a luxury villa in Calpe, a resort on the Alicante coast in Spain. The raid happened on Friday, that is four years…
The National Aquarium is closing. The Board of Directors of the National Aquarium, Washington, DC, has announced that, due to necessary renovations in the Department of Commerce building, the facility will be closing on September 30, 2013. The General Services…
China has taken another move to narrow relations with North Korea. Bank of China Ltd. announced today that it’s closing the account of North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank. The account closure follows a series of UN sanctions imposed on North…
A piece believed to be from one of the airliners that hit the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, has been found behind the site of an Islamic community center near ground zero, the New York Police Department…
Two Syrian bishops have been kidnapped in the northern province of Aleppo. It’s not clear who is responsible. Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi are said to have been seized as they were carrying out humanitarian work. Muslim clerics have been…
“Cultural difference or bad manners?” the Joongang Ilbo newspaper wrote. “A disrespectful handshake or a casual friendly handshake?” DongAh Ilbo newspaper wrote in a photo caption. So what do you think? Is a hand shake using one hand and the…
At least 70 students and teachers at an all girls school in Takhar province’s capital, Taluqan, northern Afghanistan, have been sickened by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms. School authorities evacuated everyone from the building and many of the…
Officials at the Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin have put the college on lockdown due to a report of a gunman sighting on campus, according to the school’s website. Police were alerted around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday when a man with…
The teacher of Phillipsburg Middle School, Walt Tutka, made this remark to one of his students, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last”, while teaching in class. The student asked where the teacher got the…
Here is a map of the countries you may want to avoid visiting (shown in red) as they have been deemed dangerous for travel, according to Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs. The map below is the current Foreign Affairs travel…