Asylum-seeker boat bound for Christmas Island sinks after leaving Java, dozens.
For three hours people were praying, terrified, as they washed helplessly in the Indian Ocean. Then a series of waves, pushed by strong easterly winds coming from behind, swamped the boat. It broke in two along the keel. The woman who is in a hospital.
Russian Riot Grrrls Jailed for Punk Prayer
During the election campaign, the group staged a number of provocative performances in public spaces, culminating in a ���punk prayer service��� last month on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. As a recording of that performance.
Pro-Pussy Riot message scrawled in blood at murder scene
The feminist punk groups lawyer quickly called the message a provocation designed to discredit those who oppose the two-year sentence handed to three members of the all-woman band for their performance of an anti-Kremlin song in a Moscow church.
Sydney live: One Indian among hostages inside Lindt cafe, says Venkaiah Naidu
As a preventive measure in accordance with the local requirements, we have evacuated the staff from the Sydney Consulate building because it is located about 300-400 metres away from where this incident took place, Ministry spokesperson Syed.
Sydney siege live: Police ask those working in exclusion zone to stay home
The siege in Sydney has entered its eleventh hour. According to television reports negotiators are in touch with the hostage takers inside the Lidnt cafe in Sydney, but police have not given out too many details because of security reasons. Meanwhile.
Pakistani shuns MPs bounty offer for anti-Islam filmmaker as protests continue
Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour made the offer yesterday at a news conference after protests across the country on Friday against the US-made film Innocence of Muslims killed at least twenty three people and injured more than two hundred others.
Updates on Irans Disputed Election
Update | 7:03 p.m. The Lede will be back tomorrow morning with more updates. We leave you. Update | 6:02 p.m. Earlier today an Iranian reader wrote to tell us that the BBC World Services Farsi-language radio broadcasts were important in 1979, as a.
Updates on the Toppling of Morsi
In one case, Ms. McTighe said that activists from Tahrir Bodyguard and Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment, two volunteer organizations formed last year to protect female protesters, appeared to intervene... Islamists clashed with the military in the.
Twin blasts at churches in Pakistan kill 10, wound 55
Bombs outside two churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 10 people and wounded more than 55 during Sunday services, rescue workers said, and witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths. The explosions occurred .
World in Pictures April 2014: striking photographs from around the globe
A pro-Russian gunman prepares his weapon as his comrades are about to storm a regional police station building in Luhansk, Ukraine, one of the largest cities in Ukraines troubled east, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo). Workers dressed in special.
Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, Dies After Wall At School Collapses On Her
A 12-year-old student in Edinburgh, Scotland was fatally injured Tuesday after a free-standing wall collapsed on her at school. Keane Wallis-Bennett was changing for gym class at Liberton High School when the wall, which was meant to be a partition.
Anniversaries of 2008
Christopher Howse highlights some historical landmarks Why did Marie Stopes pose naked for coal miners, where was an explosion 1,000 greater than the Bomb at Hiroshima and when did Britain win the most Olympic gold medals? Christopher. 6 Seven.
Pakistani Christians riot after two churches bombed during.
Pakistani Christians riot after two churches bombed during prayer services. Sydney Morning Herald Fourteen people were killed and more than 70 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Pakistans��.