Six people were killed yesterday in London when a fire ripped through an apartment building trapping residents in their homes. Screams echoed through the streets of South London yesterday as victims cried out for help from their windows of the 12 story high rise. According to officials, a child and a newborn baby were among [...]

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Update: 7/6/09 Investigators believe the serial killer blamed for five deaths in South Carolina died in a shootout with police in North Carolina earlier today. Authorities said that the gun found on 41-year-old Patrick Tracy Burris match the weapon used in the killings in South Carolina. Burris was killed in Dallas, North Carolina on Monday [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she will step down as Alaska’s chief executive by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010. “People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing’s more important to me than our beloved Alaska,” Palin [...]

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From the Telegraph Authorities in China are investigating reports that dozens of babies who were taken from their parents for breaching the country’s strict one-child policy were sold for adoption to families in Europe and America. An investigation has alleged that up to 78 babies taken into care in Guizhou province, in southern China, were [...]

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From the Telegraph Cheb Mami, an Algerian singer, has been sentenced by a French court to five years in prison for abducting his former girlfriend and attempting to force her to have an abortion. The 42-year-old singer, whose real name is Mohamed Khelifati, returned to France this week to face trial for the 2005 assault [...]

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