Latest Breaking News
RSS-
Guatemalas ex-president extradited to US
Guatemala has extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face charges of laundering $70m. Portillo was put on a plane on Friday under the escort of US agents. "Hasta luego (see you later), people of Guatemala," Portillo, 61, said, after describing his extradition as a "kidnapping" and accusing the Guatemalan government of breaking the law. "They ...
-
Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
-
Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
More Breaking News
RSS-
The Other Benghazi Scandal
Thanks to the solid reporting of The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes among others, we now have a pretty good picture of how the CIA-prepared "talking points" about the events in Benghazi evolved. A document that initially fingered extremist Islamist groups eventually transmogrified into pabulum that would not contradict Rice's storyline about an attack triggered by ...
-
Starving for a Beer
takes in its write-up is glib: Headlined "Kim Jong-Ale," it begins by tossing off a reference to North Korea as a country that "commonly experiences famines." But Thomas, the beer-o-phile, is the real scoundrel here. The first warning sign is that throughout the piece, he refers to North Korea as the "DPRK," the regime's preferred name for the country. (It ...
-
Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior ...
-
Riots spread outside Swedish capital
A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM – A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even ...
-
Frantic 911 calls reveal chaos in Okla. following tornado
Several 911 calls made in the wake of Monday's massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma are now being publicly heard, revealing the chaos that the city's residents had experienced from the devastation. On Friday, recordings of some of the emergency calls were made available by Moore police (click on the video above to hear). One of the frightening calls came from a man describing that a ...
-
Lebanon Hezbollah must not spark sectarian conflict
Daily Star reported him saying in reference to Hezbollah fighting in neighboring Syria. Suleimans remarks came following a major assault by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces on a rebel held town over the past week, which has drawn in fighters from Assad's Shi'ite allies Hezbollah, justifying fears that the conflict would cross borders at the heart of the Middle ...
-
Russia Gay Rights Activists To Defy Rally Ban
Activists will attempt to hold a gay pride march in Moscow despite being banned by authorities and warned they will be breaking the law. City officials have promised the action will be "thwarted" and protesters face being arrested and fined. But they say they are determined to make their voices heard. The torture and murder of a young man in Volgograd has focused attention on the ...
-
Syria opposition unity talks face specter of collapse
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on ...
-
Guinea opposition protest turns violent
Clashes broke out between youths and police in the Guinean capital Conakry, where opposition activists had called a "ghost town" demonstration a day after protests turned violent. At least 15 people have been injured in the clashes, officials said on Friday. Unrest has been growing in the West African state over delays to a long-awaited parliamentary election, which is scheduled for ...
-
Tornado Alley Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
-
New Computer Attacks Come From Iran Officials Say
SAN FRANCISCO ...
-
North Korea sends China a letter
A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae's three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang ...
-
Who needs the rat race when you can hatch a chicken in your bra The enchanting story of a couple who swapped the grind for the good life... and tested their arriage to the limit
It’s not always like this. There have been plenty of days when I’ve wondered why on earth my wife, Debbie, and I swapped our trendy London flat and our well-paid jobs as an estate agent and a solicitor for 20 acres of scruffy farmland on Exmoor and a life of ...
-
At last sleazy music DVDs are forced to carry age ratings as legal loophole that allow youngsters to buy explicit material is closed
There are already age restrictions on feature films but a range of pop videos, sports releases, religious and educational DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are classed as ...
-
Boy Scouts of America vote to lift ban on gay members - but reject appeals to accept gay leaders
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections of members and ...
-
Husband tried to annul divorce AFTER his wifes death because he had no idea they had legally separated
The carpenter said his literacy skills are so bad he had no idea he had signed divorce papers which left him ‘with absolutely no capital’ following her death from lung and brain cancer at the age of 71 in ...
-
Revealed The secret tapes of the orgy-loving playboy driven to suicide by the Profumo scandal...
The Stephen Ward I knew did, indeed, have many facets to his complex character, yet the full picture of the real victim of the Profumo scandal, which shocked British society 50 years ago, has never really ...
-
Tim Curry 67 recovering at his LA home after suffering a major stroke
Few details were available about the stroke last night, but sources close to the actor denied suggestions that the stroke had made it difficult for him to ...
-
Googles deadly web of poison and hatred
Google's transgressions, it seems, are greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. This cannot be allowed to continue. The public needs protecting from the dark side of the ...
-
Workman finds $100000 first edition Superman comic book while renovating Minnesota home
'That was a $75,000 tear': Man who found rare first edition Superman comic book worth nearly $200,000 RIPPED it while fighting with a relative over ...
-
She used Twitter to win fame - now its destroyed her
Three years ago, political commentator Andrew Neil asked Sally Bercow whether her Twitter pronouncements were ‘provocative’ and might lead her to say ‘something you ...
-
Why Drummer Rigbys killers should be charged with treason
Although we think of treason as a medieval crime — associated with gruesome punishments such as hanging, drawing and quartering or boiling in oil — the last trial for such an offence happened less than 70 years ...
Oklahoma Record
-
Oklahoma's massively ambitious transport plan for next eight years
The Oklahoma Department of Transport has adopted a massive transport improvement plan that will cost the state $4.8 billion over the next eight years and will incorporate around 1,700 individual project around the state aimed at making Oklahoma’s roads, bridges and highways safer and better to drive on.
Oklahoma has around 12,000 miles of highways and many more thousands of miles of roadway and streets, maintaining this massive expanse of tarmac is an ongoing process and in recent years the Department of Transport acknowledged that it has fallen behind. Read more
News from around our Network
