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Ice Bucket Challenge injures firefighters in US

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:46

Four US firefighters were injured, two seriously, as they were helping run a so-called Ice Bucket Challenge at a Kentucky university.

US National Guard ordered out of violence-torn Ferguson

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:29

National Guard troops withdrew Thursday from a US town gripped by nearly two weeks of protests over the fatal police shooting of a black teenager, as new details emerged about the white officer who pulled the trigger.

At least 27 dead in bus crash in Egypt`s Sinai

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:27

At least 27 people died and dozens were injured when two buses collided before dawn on Friday in Egypt`s Sinai Peninsula, the state news agency and security sources reported.

Senegal closes border as UN warns on Ebola flare-up

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:24

Senegal has become the latest country to seal its border with a west African neighbour to ward off the deadly Ebola virus, as the new UN pointman on the epidemic said preparations must be made for a possible flare-up of the disease.

European push for new UN resolution on Gaza

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:22

Britain, France and Germany have launched a fresh bid at the UN to end six weeks of violence in Gaza, after Israeli warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement`s armed wing.

Paris relives the joy of liberation, 70 years on

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:20

"Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself. Liberated by its people..." The words of Charles De Gaulle to an ecstatic crowd cheering the capital`s liberation from Nazi occupation after four long, painful, bitter years.

Violence against Iraqis worst seen this century: UN

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:17

The violence against children, women and minority communities in Iraq in the past few weeks is one of the worst seen in this century, a UN spokesperson said Thursday, citing information from the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF).

`Just a few strikes`: Iraq militia wants help from old US foe

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:05

Iraq`s Mahdi Army fought US troops to the death in past years, but now some members of the rebranded Shiite militia say they could do with a little help from their old foe.

Death toll could double to over 80 in Hiroshima landslide, more rain falls

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 08:11

Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday for more than 50 people believed buried under a deadly landslide on the edge of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, as opposition politicians rounded on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his handling of the disaster.

Top Vatican figure in row over child abuse comments

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 08:10

Australia`s leading Catholic cleric George Pell, a top Vatican official, came under fire Friday after drawing an analogy between the church`s response to child abuse and a trucking company.