Hundreds take to Manchester streets for naked bike ride
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Hundreds of naked bike enthusiasts yesterday swarmed through Manchester city centre in a mass show of cycling solidarity. At 7pm sharp the crowd of bare bikers left All Saints...
Sword-wielding Sikhs clash at India's Golden Temple
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 10:18
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A violent sword battle broke out at Sikhism's holiest temple today during a special prayer ceremony to mark the government massacre that took place there 30 years ago. At least...
Barroso to sign controversial deal with Netanyahu
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 10:04
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is to formally sign a controversial EU-Israel research programme with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit starting Sunday. The...
Rising seas uncover Pacific war dead
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 09:46
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War Two. Speaking at UN climate talks in Bonn, the Island's foreign minister said...
Man charged in Mounties' death obsessed with guns
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 07:24
Last update: about 10 years ago
Malta Independent
A chilling portrait of a man obsessed with guns and anti-government rhetoric began to emerge as people in this eastern Canadian city struggled to reconcile the knowledge that the person charged with...
Ukraine, US, Russia: 3 men face to face at last
Friday, 6 June 2014, 18:39
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The American, Russian and incoming Ukrainian presidents spoke face-to-face about ending Ukraine's violence, a diplomatic turning point that played out Friday along the blood-soaked beaches where...
World honours D-Day's fallen, 70 years on
Friday, 6 June 2014, 13:55
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Men who stormed Normandy's shore 70 years ago joined world leaders Friday in paying tribute to the 150,000 Allied troops who risked and lost their lives in the D-Day landings in Nazi-occupied...
Man suspected of killing Canadian Mounties caught
Friday, 6 June 2014, 13:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the wounding of two others in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada was arrested early Friday,...
Police: College student disarmed Seattle gunman
Friday, 6 June 2014, 09:54
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as...