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A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. The injured flooded into hospitals, and the ... Read More »

Two men convicted of working for Israeli and US spy agencies have been executed by Iran, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the US Central ... Read More »

Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in US history. The complaint, filed on Friday in US District Court in Beaumont, Texas, alleges that the companies and ... Read More »

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking for stepped-up action on Syria as he meets with President Barack Obama at the White House. But the US and Turkey remain far apart on how to handle Syria’s bloody civil war. Erdogan is visiting Washington on Thursday just days after two ... Read More »

US President Barack Obama says he and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to “increase the pressure” on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with his departure the goal. Obama and Cameron addressed the media after a meeting between the two leaders in Washington on Monday. “We’re going to continue our ... Read More »

A 52-year-old grandmother who took her own life, left a note apparently blaming the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ for driving her to suicide. Stephanie Bottrill, lived alone in a three-bedroom house after both her son and her daughter moved out. Under the new rules she was told she had to move ... Read More »

Happy dudes couldn’t help but show us some of what they got themselves in the US. So it’s not just the ladies showing off their stuffs. You can be sure those dudes are really having a nice time down there and we hope for their perfect and safe journey back ... Read More »

US federal prosecutors in the state of New York say cyber-criminals stole $45m (about N7bn), by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards. Seven people were arrested in the case, which involved thousands of thefts from ATMs in 26 countries, authorities announced on Thursday. Prosecutors say an ... Read More »

US secretary of state, John Kerry, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to help find “common ground” over the conflict in Syria, as he believes the US and Russia had shared interests in the country. Kerry told Putin at the start of talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday, that ... Read More »

North Korea has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country’s eastern coast, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch. A US defence official said on Monday that Washington did not believe the Musudan missiles had gone to an alternate launch site and that ... Read More »