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Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf

Monday, 31 December 2012, 09:35 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a...

Der Spiegel publishes Bush obituary by mistake

Sunday, 30 December 2012, 17:49 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering...

Nobel scientist Levi-Montalcini dies in Rome, 103

Sunday, 30 December 2012, 16:16 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the...

7 die during fitness tests in South Africa

Sunday, 30 December 2012, 13:38 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

South African media say provincial authorities are investigating the deaths of seven job-seekers who collapsed in the heat while undergoing a fitness test for positions as traffic...

Train mows down, kills 5 elephants in east India

Sunday, 30 December 2012, 09:13 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

    A passenger train has plowed into and killed five elephants of a herd crossing railroad tracks in eastern India.   R.N. Mohapatra, a railroad spokesman, says the train...

Egypt president warns against new unrest

Saturday, 29 December 2012, 17:54 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

    Egypt's Islamist president warned against any unrest that could harm the drive to repair the country's battered economy in his first address before the newly convened upper...

Watch: 4 dead in Moscow airliner crash

Saturday, 29 December 2012, 17:35 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

    A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four...

Cough syrup suspected in 33 deaths

Saturday, 29 December 2012, 12:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

    Authorities are investigating cough syrup believed to have killed 33 people in eastern Pakistan in the past three days, a government official said Saturday, the second time in...

Thatcher papers: 'worst moment' of her life

Saturday, 29 December 2012, 12:25 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

She called it, simply, the worst moment of her life.   It came in March 1982 during the days before the Falklands War, after Argentina established an unauthorized presence on Britain's...

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital

Saturday, 29 December 2012, 08:31 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

    Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal that galvanized people to demand...

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