Cop with gun at Texas pool party quits
A US police chief in Texas says the actions of an officer who pulled a gun at a teenage pool party are indefensible.
A US police chief in Texas says the actions of an officer who pulled a gun at a teenage pool party are indefensible.
THE UN is investigating reports that some of its peacekeepers received sex in exchange for money, employment, goods or services.
SAN Francisco is set to slap health warnings on ads for fizzy drinks, saying they contribute to obesity, diabetes and other health problems.
A GIANT parachute being tested for landing manned spacecraft on Mars has disintegrated on deployment over Hawaii, NASA says.
THE battle over the estate of US blues legend BB King will be fought out in a Las Vegas court.
GNOMES arranged in 30 rows of three have been left in a front garden in southwest England, mystifying police and the woman who owns the house.
A TOTAL of 44 Germanwings victims’ coffins are expected to be flown from Marseille, France, to Duesseldorf, Germany.
AS many as 400 piglets have been killed in a truck crash in the US but more of the 2200 animals involved have run off into nearby woods.
THE man behind Playmobil, the toy brand that launched more than 40 years ago and now has 2.8 billion plastic figures, has died.
WOMEN in the Indonesian province of Aceh now have a curfew which requires them to be home by 11pm.
MARY Ellen Trainor who played a police psychiatrist in Lethal Weapon film and its sequels died last month in California.
FOR 200 years Gurkhas have fought alongside British armed forces from Gallipoli to Iraq and Afghanistan, enhancing their reputation as tough fighters.
ATHENS has been rattled by an earthquake which has struck about 80km north of the Greek capital.
THE lesbians who sued for the right to marry in the US territory of Guam were the first gay couple to be issued a marriage licence there.
17 journalists were killed in Syria last year, making it the deadliest place in the world for journalists for the third consecutive year.
UNITED Passions, a $US30 million ‘unwatchable’ film purporting to portray the history of FIFA has bombed at the box office.
TWO nuns in Italy who were stuck in a convent lift for three days prayed to be rescued and were saved by a diligent cleaning lady who raised the alarm.
AFTER 56 years, Barbie is finally getting flat shoes as Mattel looks to give the doll a new street style.
FORMER US police officer Michael Slager has been indicted for murder after a video captured him shooting a black man eight times.
WOMEN are being urged to watch for signs of bladder cancer, with health experts saying many mistake the illness for a less serious urine infection.
BATHERS are being urged to stay out of the water at a Florida beach, after an 11-year-old boy was seriously injured in a shark attack.
THE Group of Seven leaders threaten to strengthen sanctions against Russia, if the situation in eastern Ukraine worsens.
AN appeal by South African prosecutors to try to increase the severity of Oscar Pistorius’ conviction and sentence will be heard in November.
AT severe heatwave has killed at least 25 people in Pakistan as temperatures hit 47C.
HELEN Mirren and Alex Sharp led the charge of British wins at the Tony Awards which included best play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
ESPIONAGE comedy Spy gives Melissa McCarthy her first number one hit but sales are still sluggish at the US box office.
A KIWI who says he was tricked into carrying drugs into Bali was “abnormally trusting” due to his mental condition and low IQ, his trial in Bali has heard.
A NEW test, relying on a wire testing system that can be used in coronary care units, could predict who will suffer long term damage after a heart attack.
AN England amusement park where a rollercoaster crash last week left four people badly hurt is set to reopen to the public.
TWO lawyers who represented Michael Egan, a man who sued Hollywood executives including X-Men director Brian Singer for sex abuse, say it was all a lie.
NEW Zealand’s Commerce Commission says consumers are continuing to abandon phone calls in favour of more data services.
TEN unpublished letters by British artist Lucian Freud to poet Stephen Spender are to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London next month.
A NEW recipe for New Zealand’s Milo has left former fans bitter, but Australians won’t notice a difference in flavour, says Nestle.
A SEVERE heatwave has killed more than a dozen people in Pakistan.
TURKS are voting in a general election that will determine whether the ruling party can strengthen the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
SEVENTEEN are dead after a suicide car bombing attack on a market in northern Iraq.
ONLY 14 survivors have been confirmed from the Chinese cruise ship that sank on the Yangtze River as the death toll rises to 431.
APPLE chief Tim Cook will reveal the IT giant’s software updates for the iPhone, iPad and its Mac computer line-up for the future.
A FREAK gale in China has blown away a jumping castle, killing a three-year-old girl who fell from the inflatable castle when it took off.
FILM, theatre and television actor Richard Johnson has died in London aged 87.
THE ‘Wedding Ring Bridge’ made famous by Marliyn Munroe in the 1961 film The Misfits is being demolished.
A US teen says he’s excited and scared after being accepted to every Ivy League school.
COLDPLAY’S Chris Martin has sung at the funeral of Beau Biden, the son of US vice president Joe Biden who died last week from brain cancer.
KENSINGTON Palace has released photos taken by the Duchess of Cambridge showing Princess Charlotte with her older brother Prince George.
A 21-YEAR-OLD Australian man, who was beaten at a Thai nightclub last year, has been thrown into police cells following a court hearing.
FEARS of a British invasion by venomous spiders have been proven to be unfounded after a nest of eggs was discovered in a bunch of bananas.
EUROPEAN budget airline easyJet has completed a test inspection using drones as part of a drive to reduce an aircraft’s costly down time.
A GATHERING of G7 leaders in the German town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen will be disrupted by more than 10,000 demonstrators.
FOR the second time in as many months, the White House has been placed in lockdown following a drone incident.
TWO friends of convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been jailed for impeding the FBI investigation into the deadly attacks.
TAIWANESE authorities have executed by firing squad six men convicted of murder.
A LOS Angeles jury has convicted police officer Mary O’Callaghan of assault after she repeatedly kicked a handcuffed woman who later died.
THE co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps, killing 150 people, had reached out to dozens of doctors, a French prosecutor says.
INDONESIA’S punitive “war on drugs” which saw two Australians executed last month must be replaced with evidence-backed approaches, experts say.
A NEW species of ancient reptile unearthed in a quarry in England has been named after a spell cast in the Harry Potter series.
YAHOO is withdrawing several of its services in different countries including Maps, Movies and TV.
STEVE Martin was praised by friends when he received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award during a private ceremony in Hollywood.
DOCTORS in Houston have successfully performed the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant.
A HORNED dinosaur species nicknamed Hellboy has been found in Canada and is a close relative of Triceratops.
AROUND 450 pages of chat logs have been tendered to the trial of NZ man Antony de Malmanche, who could face the death penalty in Indonesia.
AUSTRALIAN journalist Peter Greste says the US president is in his corner, as he fights to have terror charges against him in Egypt dropped.
NESTLE India says its Maggi noodles are completely safe, despite deciding to take them off the country’s shelves.
DESPITE being stabbed accidentally with a bread knife on stage, Ken Beider continued on with the scene.
CANADIAN Prime Minister says Russia will never change while Vladimir Putin is leader, and should not be welcomed back into the G7.
A RARE first edition of JR Tolkien’s The Hobbit including an inscription written in Elvish has sold at a London auction for $A270,000.
GREECE has bundled all its June payments into one, thus avoiding Friday’s debt deadline.
THE UK has released a second batch of private letters written by Prince Charles to ministers, following a lengthy legal battle.
PRINCE Harry has been knighted by the Queen for services to her and the British monarchy.
DEATH certificate errors have been blamed for a delay in the return to families of the remains of those killed in the crash of Germanwings flight 9525.
AT least 14 civilians children have killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the northern Aleppo province.
AT least 20 soldiers have been killed in a ambush in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur.
AN appeals court in Egypt has ordered former president Hosni Mubarak to stand trial again over the killing of protesters in 2011.
AT least 30 people have been killed in airstrikes in Yemen’s north near the Saudi border.
THE wine collection of the late biotech entrepreneur Alejandro Zaffaroni is going to auction in New York.
MAGGI noodles have been ordered off shop shelves in India after they were found to contain unsafe levels of lead.
DEMOCRAT presidential nominee Lincoln Chafee says he wants to end capital punishment, stop all wars, and let Edward Snowden back into the US.
LONDON is the world’s most popular tourist city, according to an index ranking the most visited cities around the world
FEMALE Italian academics have slammed the president of Rome University for heading the jury of a student beauty pageant.
FORMER News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been cleared of perjury after the case against him collapsed.
AN analysis of the A400M plane which crashed in Spain has revealed that three of the aircraft’s four engines failed. engines failed
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