Sean Connery urges Scottish independence

Yes’ vote ... Scottish actor Sean Connery promotes his book 'Being a Scot' in 2008. Connery has urged his fellow Scots to vote for independence. 
 

JAMES Bond star Sean Connery has urged his fellow Scots to vote for independence in their referendum later this year, saying it was an opportunity “too good to miss”. 

US Navy jet crashes during training

A US Navy F/A-18C Hornet jet aircraft crashed during training Saturday in the western state of Nevada, the navy said in a statement.

Fired for urinating in a box, factory worker gets job back but sues company

Rights fight ... Disputes over bathroom breaks have prompted law suits and complaints and are even the subject of a 1998 book. 

 

A WOMAN who was fired for urinating in a box at work has had her job reinstated but she is suing the company.

Russian troop convoy on road to Crimea’s capital as Ukraine PM declares the ‘brink of disaster’

Ukraine's army is put on full combat alert, while the United States calls for the immediate deployment of international monitors to the former Soviet republic.

UKRAINE’S Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has warned that his crisis-hit country is on the “brink of disaster’’, accusing Russia of declaring war in a bleak appeal to the international community. 

Knife massacre in Chinese railway station leaves 34 dead

The mass stabbing has been dubbed a ‘terrorist attack’ by the authorities

Separatist forces have been blamed for a ‘terrorist attack’ in a Chinese railway station which left 34 people dead and more than 140 wounded.
More than ten assailants converged on Kunming station in Yunnan province yesterday armed with knives.

Woman and teen charged with assaulting vision-impaired man, 77, on Queensland bus

Two young women have been charged with an apparently racist assault upon an elderly and vision-impaired man in a broad-daylight attack that was captured on camera and circulated on social media.
Lana Janet Watmough, 21, and Layni Gloria Cameron, 17, handed themselves into police after footage

Ukraine crisis: Britain pulls out of G8 preparatory talks

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague: "The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine has been violated"

The UK has pulled out of preparatory talks for the G8 summit due to be held in Sochi, because of Russia's continuing build-up of military forces in the Ukrainian region of Crimea.

The decision was announced as Foreign Secretary William Hague flew to Kiev for talks with Ukraine's new leaders.

Saudi women activists demand end to ‘absolute’ male control

Saudi women activists have petitioned the country’s consultative council to back a demand to curb the “absolute authority” of male guardians over women in the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, a signatory said.

Inside the mind of thrill-killer Miranda Marbour

Miranda K. Barbour is led into District Judge Ben Apfelbaum's office in Sunbury, Pa., by Sunbury policeman Travis Bremigen. 

 

MIRANDA Barbour, 19, is desperate to join the notorious club of violent serial killers.

The pretty Pennsylvania teen claims she has murdered at least 22 people since she joined a satanic cult when she was 13-years-old. If her story is verified, she will become the worst female serial killer in history.

Man’s hand cut off in Syria in horrific act of violence, photos posted on Twitter

 
THE people of Syria continue to bear the brunt of violence, as their country faces a crisis with nearly ten million in need of humanitarian assistance.