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Nokia Lumina 920: Most Innovative Smartphone In The World?

September 6, 2012 | More

Let us list the great innovators of our most recent century: In fiction, James Joyce; in popular music, John Lennon; in film, Stanley Kubrick; in pornography, Ron Jeremy; in frozen food, Hot Pockets; in screen savers, the 3D maze with the brick walls that you travel through; in reality television shows, “The Mole” with Anderson [...]
French Alps Shooting: 4 Found Shot Dead In Car Near Chevaline

September 6, 2012 | More

PARIS — Four people were found shot to death on a forest road in the French Alps on Wednesday, their bodies left in and near a car with British license plates, authorities said. A girl discovered at the site with bullet wounds was hospitalized. Police combed the wooded hills around the village of Chevaline into [...]
Costa Rica Earthquake 2012: 7.6 Magnitude Quake Hits Costa Rica

September 6, 2012 | More

CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, but causing little damage. Authorities reported one confirmed death. “When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling,” said Rosa Pichardo, 45, who [...]
Michael Clarke Duncan Funeral: Public Memorial Service At Forest Lawn Memorial Parks And Mortuaries

September 6, 2012 | More

LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan’s life will be celebrated with a public casket viewing and a private service next week. Duncan spokeswoman Joy Fehily said Wednesday that the Oscar-nominated actor’s casket will be on view from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries [...]

Nigeria security operation – 17 dead

Teni Sow | July 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A military official on Sunday said that 17 people, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed during a military and police operation against a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast.

Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo told journalists in the city of Maiduguri that a 13-year-old boy, five other civilians and 11 suspected members of a radical sect locally known as Boko Haram were killed during the operation on Saturday evening.

He declined to comment on how they died.

Usman Abdullahi, the 36-year-old brother of a victim, said soldiers chased people in the streets for hours and shot at them. He said soldiers accused them of being sect members.

Nwaogbo said security forces launched a search operation after two suspected members threw two homemade bombs at patrol cars from a moving bus. He said the blasts injured five soldiers.

An activist group, the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, said in a statement Sunday that the war against Boko Haram “must be done within the ambit of the law and constitution.”

Also Sunday police said a bomb blast killed at least two women outside a church in a city just north of Nigeria’s capital.

Niger state police spokesman Richard Oguche said the blast went off Sunday outside the All Christian Fellowship Mission in the city of Suleja. He said one man sustained serious injuries.

Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement that four people were hospitalized after the blast.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, is responsible for a rash of killings targeting security officers, local leaders and clerics in Nigeria’s northeast over the last year. They have also claimed responsibility for a bombing at the nation’spolice headquarters that killed two last month.

The capital bombing and other recent attacks outside Boko Haram’s stronghold which have targeted beer gardens, have shown the group is broadening its reach.

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