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The mother of two men suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings has said she believes her sons are innocent and is "100% sure that this is set up".
Zubeidat Tsarnaev alleged that her oldest son, Tamerlan, was controlled by the FBI for years
The European Parliament has rejected a plan to rescue the EU's ailing carbon trading scheme. Members narrowly voted against a so-called "backloading" proposal that would have cut the huge surplus of allowances currently being traded.
University of Mobiles Cross Country Coach said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines. "They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise,"
Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic. Construction will start at the end of next year and would be ready to set sail in 2016, with the ship's maiden trip planned from London to New York.
The US Coast Guard has used cannon to fire on and sink a crewless Japanese ship that drifted to Alaska after the 2011 tsunami. The boat had no lights or power and was viewed as a danger to other ships. The Anacapa gunnery ship of the 17th US Coast Guard began shadowing the empty ship on Wednesday afternoon.
BBC presenter Andrew Marr said he was lucky to be alive as he appeared on his show for the first time since suffering a major stroke. He took part in a discussion panel on the Sunday show, presented by Sophie Raworth, and said he would definitely be returning to work.
Men who are bald have a much higher chance of developing coronary heart disease, according to researchers in Japan.
Their study of nearly 37,000 people, published in the online journal BMJ Open, said balding men were 32% more likely to have coronary heart disease.
Bringing attention to Parkinson's sufferers. Last year this man was arrested by Surrey police under a charge of "Intending to commit a public order offence" - aka PRE-Crime!
Results of a Norwegian study don't exactly point way for electric cars to be the norm. Apart from requiring double the energy to produce, you have to use them for 100,000 miles or so to see the AT BEST 20% reduction in CO2. Most will see just 10% over that period and the less you use it, the closer it reaches 0% reductions and actually causes more damage than good!
Two very contradictory stories. One from a BBC reporter with "boots on the ground" and the other from a rhetoric based UK newspaper. If China is not really sending troops, does it letting North Korea go in a deal made with the US?
In an amazingly amusing own goal, Conservative MP Rob Wilson directed his Twitter followers to a Pornsite, rather than the intended Guido Fawkes story. Hey, at least it's grown women he's looking at. We should at least be happy with that!
On BBC Question Time Amy Rutland who launched a personal attack on the UKIP panellist calling her âdisgustingâ. Amy Rutland is in fact a political activist for the Labour party and the scene was staged to cause maximum damage to UKIP
London Luton Airport has apologised "unreservedly" for putting a picture of a plane crash at another airport on its Facebook page.
The image, which appeared at 09:15 GMT on Wednesday is believed to have had a related status saying "this is what we prevent you from when it snows".
1:28 is the specific graph. Showing the correlation between temperatures and solar flare activity. It's weird to see NASA use this graph and they make NO reference to it. So why use that specific one when they could have used any other? Very odd.
According to the Center for Space Standards and Innovation on January 22, 2013 debris from the Chinese FENGYUN 1C collided with Russiaâs BLITS satellite. The collision changed the orbit of the Russian satellite, along with its spin velocity and attitude.
A Welsh-born Swedish princess, who kept her romance with her royal lover a secret for 33 years, has died. His Grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer while his Father supported the Black Panther movement.
Nice timing Ma'am. Looks like she won't have to go to Rome while he pedophile scandal is brewing in Italian papers.
Enraged veterans say President Obama is treading into sacred ground by allowing the Pentagon to establish a new medal intended to recognize the achievements of drone pilots and computer geeks, most of whom never leave the comfort of an air-conditioned building in Tampa or Las Vegas.
President Barack Obama has tapped Wal-Marts Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washingtons heated partisan budget battles and is filling vacancies at the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency, an official says.