Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Carol leads Independent Spirit Award nominations

Cate Blanchett romance Carol leads the way at next year's Independent Spirit Awards with six nominations.

Blanchett, who plays a housewife in 1950s New York who falls for a younger woman, is up for best actress, as is her co-star, Rooney Mara.

A female Pakistani fighter pilot has died after her aircraft crashed in Punjab province.

Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine training mission when her plane met an "in-flight emergency" over Mianwali district, the air force said.

Newborn baby found in nativity scene at New York City church

A newborn baby who still had his umbilical cord attached was found in a nativity scene at a Queens church on Monday.

The infant was abandoned at Holy Child Jesus Church in Richmond Hill and was discovered by a custodian around noon, according to police sources.

“The baby was found in the creche, a sort of manger scene where we would put the baby Jesus during Christmastime,” recalled the Rev. Christopher Heanue.

Ohio couple, 7-year-old son murdered in apparent home invasion

A Columbus, Ohio couple and their 7-year-old son were shot and killed Monday, while the family's 12-year-old daughter was critically injured, police said.

Investigators said the shooting suspect, identified as 50-year-old Barry Kirk, was shot by police as he fled the scene and died at a hospital a few hours later.

A 7-year-old Kentucky girl whose body was found in a creek behind a high school was murdered, state police said Sunday, and now authorities are hunting for her killer.

Gabriella Doolin, of Allen County, was watching a football game at the Allen County Scottsville High School when she disappeared Saturday evening. Police said her mother reported her missing.

Tunisian police officers are pictured after an attack on a military bus in Tunis, Tunisia November 24, 2015

An explosion hit a bus carrying members of Tunisia's presidential guard in the country's capital Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, the Interior Ministry said.

NEW YORK – A Pakistani man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a failed Al Qaeda bomb plot on the New York City subway.

A 79-year-old Florida man who was working his last shift Sunday night at a liquor store before retiring was murdered by robbers, police said.

SHE was only 15. So why was she starved, bound by the elbows, burnt — and then thrown into a pit under a heavy stone slab? In medieval Italy, she was probably seen as a witch.