Watch: Mexican monster truck wreck kills 8, hurts dozens
Monday, 7 October 2013, 06:17
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing eight people and hurting 79, officials said. The driver was detained Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter...
Italy: Divers recover more bodies, death toll at 194
Sunday, 6 October 2013, 20:14
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
An Italian government minister born in Africa stood silently Sunday as soldiers carried body bags of would-be asylum seekers from her native continent who perished when their packed fishing boat sank...
China evacuates 417,000 people ahead of typhoon
Sunday, 6 October 2013, 11:40
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because of an approaching typhoon, authorities said. Typhoon Fitow is...
US forces nab al-Qaida leader in Tripoli
Sunday, 6 October 2013, 07:25
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
US special forces on Saturday carried out a raid in the Libyan capital to capture an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in east Africa and wanted by the United States for...
Italy: Bad weather halts recovery efforts
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 11:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Authorities say the search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad...
Official: Woman killed in US chase was delusional
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 06:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
A woman shot to death by police outside the Capitol building after she tried to drive through barricades outside the White House held the delusional belief that the president was communicating with...
Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat
Friday, 4 October 2013, 18:52
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 100 African migrants clung to empty water bottles to keep themselves from drowning and were coated in gasoline, an Italian fisherman said...
Search resumes for dead in migrant shipwreck
Friday, 4 October 2013, 14:32
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Authorities were contending with choppy waters Friday in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian...
Israeli court rejects Israeli nationality status
Friday, 4 October 2013, 12:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Israel's population registry lists a slew of "nationalities" and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list:...
Syria's Assad: Early to say if he'll run again
Friday, 4 October 2013, 11:39
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Syrian President Bashar Assad said it's still too early to say whether he'll run for re-election next year, but that he would refrain from seeking a third term — if he feels that's...