Man, 61, arrested after woman torched to death
A man was under police guard in hospital last night after the death of a woman who was doused in petrol and set alight. Terrence Armer, 61, was held after 35-year-old Stacey Mackie suffered 95 per cent burns in the attack on Friday at a secure housing block for vulnerable adults in Kendal, Cumbria. She [...]
Garda forensic and pathology experts are examining the body of a woman found murdered and dumped on a street in a suitcase. The black woman, whose identity, nationality and age are unknown, was discovered by a passer-by this morning on Blackhorse Avenue on Dublin’s northside. The bag, described as a large travel bag on wheels [...]
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Matt Damon has taken another swipe at Barack Obama and dismissed him as a “one term president”. In his most ferocious attack to date, the Hollywood star vented his anger at the President’s failure to bring about change in America. He said: “I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the [...]
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We have all heard about Eye-Popping Man or Lee Redmond and her 28 ft and 4.5 in long nails. Dennis Avner is widely known as Cat Man, the American who underwent many bizarre surgeries to look like a tiger, and Garry Turner is the man with the stretchiest skin on earth. All these Guinness World [...]
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It took five hours to read the names of the 2,753, victims who died in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked 10 years ago. America showed its solidarity with heartbroken family members by holding silences at 8.46am and 9.03am, marking the moment the two planes struck. Among those remembering their loss was Robert [...]
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tim Cook has big shoes to fill and he can’t do it by just pushing out snazzier versions of the iPhone or iPad. Apple Inc’s newly minted CEO needs a revolutionary product to prove he has the chops to succeed Steve Jobs, and that may be a full-on assault on [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so [...]
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