The United States has revealed a military attempt to rescue slain journalist James Foley from terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
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/ 12 December 2009
Tiger Woods said on Friday he would take an indefinite break from professional golf, admitting he cheated on his wife.
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/ 28 November 2009
Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer and a leading force in sports marketing, was hurt in a car accident in Florida on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2008
Omar hit hurricane strength on Tuesday as it headed toward Puerto Rico and the small islands of the north-eastern Caribbean,
The first US war-crimes trial since World War II began on Monday at the US navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40 000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the United States Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top US disaster official said on Wednesday.
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/ 4 September 2007
The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) appeared to win power in a cliffhanger election on Monday but the ruling party, facing the end of an 18-year reign, served notice it would likely challenge the result. Election officials said the JLP won 31 of the 60 seats in Parliament in a preliminary vote count.
Hurricane Dean is expected to grow into a ferocious category-five storm as it passes Jamaica and nears Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the oil and gas rigs of the Gulf of Mexico after it smashed into several Caribbean islands, the United States National Hurricane Centre said on Friday.
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will be far more active than usual with 17 tropical storms, of which nine will grow into hurricanes, a noted United States forecasting team founded by William Gray said on Tuesday. The 2005 season was a record-breaker with 28 storms and 15 hurricanes.
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Jamaican police were still looking at match-fixing on Monday as a possible motive for the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer but have found no reference to it on his computer. The cricket world has been rife with speculation that the strangulation of one of the world’s best known cricket coaches involved cheating in matches.