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A masked gunman shot dead 14 people and wounded 30 to 40 others at a showing of the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises at a cinema in the U.S. city of Denver on Friday. A local radio station is reporting that a man in a gas mask opened fire

The hunt for the Higgs boson - the ‘God particle’ that holds the universe together - is over. Scientists at Switzerland's CERN (the European Council for Nuclear Research) announced the discovery of the particle to an audience

A lesbian ex-scout leader has slapped down 1980s action star Chuck Norris after he claimed that gay people have no place in the scouting movement . A lesbian mother who was ousted as an American boy scout leader because of her sexual orientation

South Africa has been ranked 127th on Vision of Humanity's global peace index, sliding 29 places from the 98th spot it held in 2007. The 2012 index, released earlier this month, was done on 158 countries and the 2007 index on 120 countries

A Fox News reporter has been chosen to polish the Vatican's image amid signs of a power shift in the upper echelons the Roman Catholic Church. Greg Burke, a 52-year-old member of the conservative Opus Dei fellowship, is to take a strategic

A US military judge has ordered prosecutors to show they are not withholding evidence from WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning. Defence lawyers had accused prosecutors of hiding documents that could potentially help their client’s case

Scientists disagree over the latest findings on Timothy Brown, also known as the “Berlin patient”, presented at a conference in Spain last week, according to a report in the journal Science‘s ScienceInsider blog. Brown was given

International broadcaster CNN has named Cape Town as one of the world's top ten most loved cities. The others include Paris, Tokyo, Montreal and New York. Western Cape Tourism Minister, Alan Windee, says the CNN accolade will further increase

Greenpeace says British consumers are unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by buying meat products from Tesco. The environmental group says in a report that canned beef from the supermarket chain has been found to