Marco Pannella, Italian Radical Party leader, dies aged 86
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 14:34
Last update: about 9 years ago
Marco Pannella, leader of the Italian Radical Party, died in Rome today. He was 86. Pannella had been hospitalised with complications on Wednesday. He founded the Italian Radical Party in...
UK police arrest man who scaled wall at Buckingham Palace
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 14:24
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A man scaled a wall and got into the grounds of Buckingham Palace before being arrested, London police said Thursday. The 41-year-old man was detained in the palace grounds Wednesday evening on...
French parliament approves extension of state of emergency
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 13:29
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
France's lower house of parliament has definitively approved a two-month extension of the state of emergency that was declared after the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. The measure is aimed at...
Sugar tax, spaceports meet pageantry in UK Queen's Speech
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 17:01
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Queen Elizabeth II donned an ermine-trimmed robe and diamond-studded crown Wednesday to announce government promises to put Britain at the cutting edge of technology and social progress in the...
Watch: Meteor captured on dashcam video lights up New England sky
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 12:37
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday. The bright flash visible from several states was apparently left by...
Clinton, Sanders in tight Kentucky race; Sanders, Trump win Oregon
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 08:05
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Bernie Sanders won Oregon's presidential primary and battled Hillary Clinton to a neck-and-neck outcome in Kentucky on Tuesday, vowing to soldier on as Clinton sought to blunt his momentum ahead of...