At least 32 youths aged 14 to 20 have been shot dead at a party in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said today. Chihuahua state prosecutors spokesman Fidel Banuelos said gunmen in three cars drove up to a house party in the border city across from El Paso, Texas, around 11pm last night and [...]

Two teenage students were accidentally shot dead during a police weapons demonstration in India. A constable demonstrating how to load an assault rifle accidentally pressed the trigger and killed a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old. Police were showing their arsenal to students in an effort to improve public relations, said Andhra Pradesh state police chief K. [...]

Police broke through barricades around French fuel depots today as the government took a tough line with strikers threatening to bring the country to a halt. With no sign that workers protesting over plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 were relaxing their action, riot officers forced them away, restoring petrol to [...]

A 29-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of Offaly publican Matt Farrell. The 64-year-old was found dead at the Gaelic Bar in Daingean on April 1st 2009. He had been tied to a chair and a post-mortem revealed he had died as a result of head injuries. As part of the investigation, gardaí [...]

New York police said today they have rounded up more than 40 people in New York and Florida, including one of the founders of the Roc-A-Fella record label, during a swoop on a wholesale marijuana ring. Those arrested included Kareem Burke, who founded the hip-hop label with Jay-Z and Damon Dash in the 1990s, police [...]

British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the top US general in Afghanistan today amid new claims over the role American forces played in the death of British aid worker Linda Norgrove. General David Petraeus’ visit to Downing Street comes as it was reported that Ms Norgrove was killed after a US special forces soldier [...]

Four suspected US missile strikes killed 11 militants in north-western Pakistan, near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said today. The officials said the strikes took place in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region. The first attack targeted a house in the village of Lataka, killing four militants. Minutes later, a drone [...]

The 52 victims of the 7/7 London bombings were murdered in acts of “mindless savagery”, the inquests into their deaths heard today. More than five years after the attacks, the long-awaited hearing got under way with a minute’s silence for those who died. Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, began by outlining how four [...]

A man was killed in a crash in Co. Sligo this morning. The single-vehicle collision happened on the N17 near Collooney at about 6am. The scene remains sealed off for forensic examinations and gardaí say the road will be closed until lunchtime This latest fatality comes after four lost their lives on the country’s roads [...]

A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park’s ‘Strawberry Fields’ and sang lyrics from Imagine to honour Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday. On the day when the Liverpool lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the British superstar. “His music [...]