Indianola prepares for BB King funeral
BLUES pioneer BB King will be laid to rest in his home town of Indianola in Mississippi, where more than 4000 people have already viewed his open casket.
BLUES pioneer BB King will be laid to rest in his home town of Indianola in Mississippi, where more than 4000 people have already viewed his open casket.
A US jury has convicted TV actor Dustin Diamond of two misdemeanours after a bar-room fight in Wisconsin.
THE US state of Texas is set to reverse a ban on openly carrying handguns dating to the post-Civil War era.
THE man who killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre gun attack has told a psychiatrist he turned suicidal thoughts into homicidal ones.
A BAN on sales of military equipment to Fiji has been rescinded by the United States in the wake of democratic elections last year.
THE Canadian government has enabled laws to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are convicted of terrorism, treason or spying.
RESIDENTS near Mount Shindake say black smoke darkened the sky after Friday’s eruption.
A SOFTWARE glitch can cause some iPhones to crash when they receive a text message with a specific string of characters, including some Arabic characters.
ONE month since the executions of two Australians and six others, it seems they didn’t have the deterrent effect Indonesia’s president had hoped for.
A CHINESE artist is facing up to five years in jail for “creating a disturbance” after posting a funny photo of President Xi Jinping online.
IT could soon become illegal to talk about recreational drugs in Russia, with offenders potentially facing two years in prison under proposed new laws.
A GERMAN woman has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and given a suspended jail sentence for putting needles inside sausages at a supermarket.
PRINCE William has said it’s a bit early to be taking 22-month-old son George to the football, but he’d love to go to games with him in the future.
MORE Americans sought unemplyment benefits last week, according Labor Departent figures.
WORLDWIDE, the number of hungry people has dropped to 795 million from more than a billion a quarter-century ago, the United Nations says.
THE UK’s Methodist Church has made an “unreserved apology” for physical and sexual abuse dating back more than half a century.
BUNGALOWS at the Kangleyuan Rest Home in China were built with steel sheets stuffed with flammable materials, say media reports citing an investigation.
A US man has been acquitted of animal cruelty charges after a video posted online showed him smoking marijuana with a chameleon.
FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair has quit his role as Middle East envoy for the Quartet of Powers – the UN, the US, the EU and Russia.
MEMPHIS has farewelled singer BB King in a procession that made its way down Beale Street, a city street synonymous with the blues.
ITALY’S long-suffering auto sector has been given a boost as Lamborghini signed a deal to produce its Urus SUV in the country.
ETHIOPIA’S ruling coalition has comfortably won parliamentary elections, preliminary results show.
RICK Santorum is to make a second bid to become the Republican nominee for the US presidency, a spokesman says.
AS investigators probe a deadly train crash in Philadelphia, Amtrak says it will install inward-facing video cameras.
SCHOOLS and kindergartens in Cologne are closed and dozens of ambulances are on the scene to evacuate residents of a nursing home due to a WWII bomb.
QUADRUPLETS born prematurely to a 65-year-old Berlin woman have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through tubes.
A RIGHTS group has filed a petition in a state court in Manhattan on behalf of Leo and Hercules, two chimps it says should be freed from a university.
AN American airman has shot dead a Wal-Mart employee in North Dakota before turning the gun on himself.
THE IRS has launched a criminal investigation after tech-savvy thieves obtained the personal details of 100,000 US taxpayers through an online service.
AN American couple who have just welcomed their 100th grandchild say “there’s always room for one more”.
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