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HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images It was the first-ever armed police operation, officials said. With a population of only 322,000 and one of the lowest crime rates in the world, police rarely draw their weapons in the island nation. LONDON — Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in the ...

RUSSELL CHEYNE/Reuters Wreckage of a police helicopter on the roof of a pub in central Glasgow on Monday. LONDON – Scottish authorities used a crane to remove the wreckage of a police helicopter from the roof of a Glasgow pub on Monday, and raised the death toll from its crash to nine. The helicopter’s crew — two police officers and ...

photovova/Getty Images/iStockphoto A Chinese-run garment factory (not pictured) burned in Italy, killing seven people in an attached, illegal dormitory, officials say. MILAN — A fire early Sunday swept through an illegal, makeshift dormitory in a Chinese-run garment factory in Tuscany, killing seven, firefighters said. The blaze, which partially collapsed the factory’s roof, broke out in a loft where 11 people ...

RUSSELL CHEYNE/REUTERS The police helicopter crashed into the pub in Glasgow on Friday night, causing multiple injuries as dust and debris was thrown across the busy drinking hole during a concert, eye witnesses said. Eight people have been confirmed dead and an additional 14 people remain hospitalized in “serious condition” a day after a Scottish police helicopter crashed into a ...

fotballfrue via Instagram Caroline Berg Eriksen posted this picture on her Instagram account four days after she gave birth. The picture drew criticism because of her slender physique.  The wife of a Norwegian football player posted a picture of her four days after birth in her underwear prompting outrage from some women including one writer who questioned whether they were ...

© KYODO Kyodo / Reuters/REUTERS A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in this 2012 East China Sea photo. Chinese military officials scrambled a pair of fighter planes Friday after a dozen U.S. and Japanese planes ignored its new air defense zone restrictions. The ...

@Janney_h via Twitter A Police Helicopter has crashed through the roof of the Clutha Vaults pub in Glasgow, Scotland, Leaving many injured trapped inside.  A police helicopter crashed into the roof of a popular watering hole in Glasgow, Scotland, leaving debris swirling in its wake Friday night. Emergency crews rushed to The Clutha pub, and were seen near the door. ...

Chata Kaolama/AP British kickboxer Lee ‘The Pitbull’ Aldhouse was sentenced to 25 years for the stabbing death of a U.S. Marine. A British kickboxer has started a 25-year jail sentence for stabbing a decorated U.S. Marine to death during a bar brawl in Thailand. Lee Aldhouse confessed to murdering Dashawn Longfellow, 23, after the pair got into an argument on ...

TATYANA MAKEYEVA/REUTERS People walk past a Louis Vuitton pavilion shaped like a giant suitcase in central Moscow. Matthias Rust shocked the Soviet Union when the young German landed a small plane on Red Square in 1987. This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia’s most venerated public place and traditionalists were not amused. President Vladimir Putin‘s government found ...

Ben Miller/Getty/Getty Images Francesco Raccosta, who disappeared in March 2012, was severely beaten before being thrown to a drove of pigs and eaten alive. A high-ranking Italian mafia boss was brutally murdered by a rival clan who fed him alive to pigs, police said. Francesco Raccosta, who vanished without a trace from his home in Calabria in March 2012, is ...