BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi helicopter gunships struck suspected insurgent positions in Tikrit on Sunday as part of a government offensive to retake the predominantly Sunni hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein from Sunni militants led by the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, residents and officials said.
Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni militants from the northern city of Tikrit.
An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria on Tuesday, police and residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire venue, in the Nayi-Nawa area of the state capital of Yobe, happened shortly after tournament hosts Brazil kicked off against Mexico at 8:00 pm […]
High pressure will dominate the weather across the region through the weekend. Today will be sunny and seasonably cool with highs topping out in the upper 60s to around 70. Tonight will be clear and cool with lows…
The late-night airstrike came hours after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel, the first such attack since President Mahmoud Abbas formed the new government and took charge, at least formally, of Gaza. Israel has warned it would …
Objects came out from behind cloud on the right and moved across the sky changing there positions. The total time the object was visible (1min 25 sec) before they disappeared into another cloud on the left and I did not see them any more. I could tell the objects were not Geese since I did […]
Beautiful late Spring weather is on tap for northern Ohio. High pressure will build across the region today and remain in control of our weather through the first half of the upcoming weekend. We can expected to see…
Northern Voices Online UFO shaped device for Mars landingsNorthern Voices OnlineNASA is all set to test UFO shaped device for Mars landings in Hawaii on Tuesday. NASA has planned to launch a saucer-shaped space vehicle which will be an experimental flight used to land heavy loads on Mars. Although Robotic landers and rovers have …and more »
It was approximately 9:30 P.M. Central time and I was walking towards my front door when out of the corner of my left eye I saw what looked like an orange-red glowing and pulsating orb. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I stopped abruptly to look at it and as I did it seemed […]
Shrugging off the stereotypical north-south divide, Harrogate in North Yorkshire was named the happiest place in the UK, with East London being the least happy.