Road Traffic Accidents Increase Dramatically Worldwide

(March 2006) Road traffic accidents—the leading cause of death by injury and the tenth-leading cause of all deaths globally—now make up a surprisingly significant portion of the worldwide burden of ill-health. An estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year, and as many as 50 million are injured, occupying 30 percent to 70 percent of orthopedic beds in developing...

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Nato bolsters Eastern Europe against Russia

Nato's wider actions - it also plans to open a training centre in Georgia and support for the reform of Ukraine's military - all ring alarm bells in Moscow. Tensions could get worse still if the US or other Nato allies move to arm the Ukrainian military. This is not a Nato issue as such but something for national governments, and everyone is watching the course of the evolving debate within...

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Taiwan TransAsia plane crashes

Dramatic video footage emerged showing the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after take-off from a Taipei airport. The plane, carrying 58 people, broke up as it plunged into Taipei's Keelung River. The fuselage was later salvaged by crane. There were 15 survivors pulled from the wreckage but 12 people remain missing. John Sudworth reports: "This is no longer a...

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Islamic State Releases Video Showing Jordanian Pilot

The brutal video is both one of its most violent and most slickly produced. Filled with wire-frame drawings and digitized cuts that dissolve its subjects in a flicker of pixels, the video uses Kasasbeh to attack the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State. Prior to his execution in the video, Kasasbeh delivers a ringing condemnation of the West and his country, urging the mothers...

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ISIS releases new video appearing to show Jihadi John beheading second Japanese hostage

Terror group Islamic State has released a new video which seems to show Japanese hostage Kenji Goto being beheaded by the militant fighter known as Jihadi John. The 1 minute and 7 second clip shows Mr Goto, 47, kneeling in a rocky gorge while the masked murderer delivers a scripted message to the camera.  The killer then lowers his knife and the footage goes black, as is common in ISIS...

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Reportedly negotiated with militants

Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani told The Associated Press that "we are still ready to hand over" prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces death by hanging for her role in triple hotel bombings in Jordan in 2005. Al-Rishawi has close family ties to the Iraq branch of al-Qaeda, a precursor of ISIS. With no updates for days, al-Kaseasbeh's family appealed to the government for information on...

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Bloggers given a taste of real fashion industry

None got much sleep on the concrete floor of their Cambodian host Sokty’s apartment. And now they’re off to the factory to experience first-hand the work behind their wardrobes. A blogger’s tattoo supporting the garment workers. Photo Supplied “You sit in the exact same position and do exactly the same all the time for eight hours,” Ottesen says, halfway through the work day. “If this was...

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