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‘Lolita’ children’s beds cause a stir in UK

Woolworths stores in Britain have halted the sale of ”Lolita” beds designed for children, after a parents’ organisation complained the name is synonymous with sexually active…

Scientists find fossil of giant sea scorpion

This was a bug that you’d have to look up to and definitely couldn’t step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilised claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is…

Internet soccer fans buy English club

An internet-based collective of soccer fans from more than 70 countries agreed in principle on Tuesday to buy a controlling interest in an English soccer club. The deal will give…

DNA pioneer at centre of racism storm in Britain

An American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the molecular structure of DNA has caused an uproar in Britain by reportedly saying tests have indicated that…

US claims death of senior al-Qaeda official

United States-led forces conducting a crackdown on al-Qaeda killed a senior member of the insurgent group who was responsible for the high-profile kidnappings of several…

Blasts rock Baghdad as Karbala death toll rises

United States forces fired an artillery barrage in southern Baghdad on Sunday morning, rocking the capital with loud explosions. Meanwhile, the death toll from a suicide car bomb…

Erotic Wendy upsets British children’s hospital

A London hospital that holds the copyright to Peter Pan has questioned the appropriateness of a series of books that portrays the character Wendy exploring her sexuality. The…

Suicide bomber strikes at Baghdad court building

A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting outside a heavily guarded court building in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding 52, police said. Two United…

Five Iraqis killed, 14 bodies found as Parliament meets

A suicide bomber attacked a police recruiting station on Wednesday in Fallujah, killing five people in an attack apparently aimed at discouraging Sunni Arabs from joining the…

Iraq vice-president’s sister gunned down

A sister of Iraq’s new Sunni Arab vice-president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. She died one day after her brother called for the…

Sunni party attacked on eve of Iraqi referendum

Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq’s crucial referendum on Friday, bombing and burning offices and the home…

Surge of violence in Iraq continues

Sunni-led insurgents killed at least nine people, including women and children, with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable market on Friday in the second blast against Shi’ite…

Killing a ‘painful blow’ to al-Qaeda

United States and Iraqi forces said they had killed the second most powerful figure in the al-Qaeda in Iraq organisation, but the organisation denied that Abdullah Abu Azzam was…

Fewer British troops in Basra after threat

British troops in Basra, Iraq, greatly reduced their presence in the streets on Thursday, apparently responding to a call from the provincial governor to severe cooperation until…

Insurgents fight back in Iraq border offensive

United States forces hunting down followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorist pushed into a lawless region north of the Euphrates River near the Syrian border on Tuesday after…

Brutal attacks rock new Iraq govt

Insurgents killed at least 20 people in three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Thursday, including one by a man who set off hidden explosives while…

Judicial inquiry starts into death of weapons expert

British government weapons adviser David Kelly was a superb scientist whose work helped uncover Saddam Hussein’s secret germ warfare program, said a witness at a judicial inquiry…