Abayte Ahmed and her husband learned of their son’s death in the most heinous fashion. A family acquaintance called and told them to click on an Internet site. There on the screen were photographs of their 20-year-old son — the boy with the movie-star looks — shot through the head thousands of miles away in Somalia.
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Backpacker rescued in Australia after 12 days
A British backpacker has been rescued after spending nearly two weeks missing in the mountains of eastern Australia, authorities said Wednesday. Jamie Neale, 19, was last seen July 3 after leaving his youth hostel in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney
‘Humpday’ Review: Guy Love Without the Gimmicks
Humpday is that movie: the one about a pair of guy friends who decide they’re going to make an “artistic” pornographic movie, starring themselves as two straight guys having sex.
Mom vanishes while pursuing divorce; foul play suspected
Renee Pernice, a 35-year-old mother of two young children, vanished from her home in Kansas City, Missouri, shortly after New Year’s this year.
Flight recorders located from Yemen crash plane
Investigators have heard a signal from the flight data recorders of the Yemenia Airways plane that crashed last week, they announced Sunday.
In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret
So his name is Levi. That’s about the only thing I didn’t know about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. The rest of the details I picked up almost without trying, while talking about other things with townsfolk — some who know the governor and her family well, some who don’t.
Where Palin Made Her Name
It’s Friday night, and there have got to be 500 people packed into the Sluice Box, a beer-soaked clapboard honky-tonk at the Alaska State Fair — the state’s biggest event all year — just down the highway from Governor Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla.
Report: North Korea test fires two missiles
North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Bahia Bakari, 13, arrived at Paris’ Le Bourget airport early on Thursday morning on a French government plane and was met by her father. She is reported to have been transferred to an unnamed hospital suffering from shock and a broken collar bone.
‘Miracle’ plane crash survivor back in France
The teenage girl who is the only known survivor of this week’s airliner crash in the Comoros Islands arrived back in France on Thursday.
Teen plane crash survivor ‘didn’t feel a thing’
The father of a teenage girl who remarkably survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands has described how his daughter was ejected from the plane into the Indian Ocean.