Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:49
Police have identified a suspect in the shooting of 19 people during a Mother's Day parade in the US state of New Orleans.
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Police have identified a suspect in the shooting of 19 people during a Mother's Day parade in the US state of New Orleans.

Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to go public about her double mastectomy has shone a spotlight on the issue of women at risk of cancer who have healthy breasts removed.

At least 19 people, including two children, have been injured in a shooting during a Mother's Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, police said.

Republican politicians have called for a broad investigation of the US tax agency's acknowledgement that its agents had singled out conservative political groups for more scrutiny, and demanded that President Barack Obama make clear the action was unacceptable.

A high-level Republican says he expects more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration responded to the unfolding events.

NASA astronauts replaced a pump during an emergency spacewalk to stop an ammonia leak at the International Space Station's power system.

Hundreds of people danced the conga through the streets of Havana to the beats of drums and trumpets in a government-sponsored march against homophobia.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a rural cemetery in Virginia, infuriating some members of the area's Muslim community as well as local officials who said they were not consulted.

Texas law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation into a massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people and injured about 200 others last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

DNA tests show an Ohio man accused of holding three women hostage for a decade is the father of a six-year-old girl born to one of the victims, authorities say.
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