HEATH Ledger's family arrived back in Australia today for the final leg of the star's long journey home following his death in the US. The actor's father Kim and other relatives landed in the family's home city of ...

While the move is historic, New Jersey's Death Row is tiny compared to those of such busy death penalty states as Texas or Virginia, or those states with large Death Row populations, such as California or Florida ... " Indeed, as the death penalty ...

Macel Falwell's book, "Jerry Falwell: His Life and Legacy," is set for release on May 15 -- the first anniversary of Falwell's death at age 73 ... " He says her book will relate her experiences with his father and tell of the founding of Thomas ...

A SERIES of Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed for hamas militants today, rising the Palestinian death toll in the past day to 15 including a baby. It raise the spectre of a serious escalation of Israel-Hamas fighting after a rocket fired from Gaza ...

In a packed courtroom in Queens State Supreme Court, Judge Arthur Cooperman ruled that the detectives _ Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper _ bore no criminal responsibility for Bell's death or the wounding of his two friends, Trent ...

The Dolphins were three games away from losing every game this season before tying with the Baltimore Ravens, 16-16, then winning 22-16 in sudden death on Camarillo's score, giving them one win to go with their 13 losses. Baltimore's loss is ...

"The slight increase in the number of deaths should not overshadow the really successful news that the drop in mortality rates has resulted in the actual avoidance of more than a half million deaths in the United States," said David Benson, vice ...

So let's review, We have gone from: 1  hypocrite says: " Chavez is not so loved in the San Juaquin Valley In fact, he is pretty much hated and his death was a liberation"  To: (let me paraphrase you) being hated by ...

New Jersey hasn't had an execution since 1963, and Pennsylvania, which has the fourth-largest death row in the nation, has put to death just three inmates during that same period, and all three essentially asked for it after giving up their appeals ... ...

By Paula Murray PRINCESS Diana thanked Prince Philip for his marriage guidance skills, the inquest into her death heard yesterday ... " The private secretary dismissed suggestions that the establishment wanted to end Diana's relationship with Dodi ...

Violence raged around Baghdad and southern Iraq, where confrontations between Iraqi security forces and rebel militia members killed at least 100 people ... military officials said terrorists initiated 11 indirect-fire attacks Thursday against ...

2 As well, segregated funds offer attractive death benefits, which work in a similar way to the maturity guarantee: your survivors will receive the difference between the guaranteed amount and the market value of the fund at your death ... 4 Lastly, ...

diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept ... Twelve of Adolf Hitler's senior aides were sentenced to death at the trials in Nuremberg, Germany, although not all were ...

Cutts could receive the death penalty if convicted of killing Davis, who was nearly full term with a female fetus when she died in June ... Cutts said he performed CPR, then tried to use bleach to revive her; a large bleach stain was found in ...

By Elizabeth Kennedy RIOTERS burned 50 people alive in a Kenyan church yesterday as raging violence over the "rigged" presidential election threatened to tear the country apart ... " The dead in the church in Eldoret, 185 miles from the ...