New York’s powerful Gambino mafia family sent a bomb expert to Sicily to train Cosa Nostra mobsters to assassinate an anti-mafia investigator, a former hitman “US mafia explosives expert ‘helped Sicilian mob kill judge’”
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Italian surgeons discover ‘world’s oldest heart valve’ in woman
Italian doctors have discovered one of the first heart prostheses, implanted almost 50 years ago by Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart “Italian surgeons discover ‘world’s oldest heart valve’ in woman”
‘The stories are a bit sinister’: the secrets of London’s hidden rivers revealed
Whenever a gap appears in the traffic roaring past the new Bloomberg building in the City of London, it is just possible to make out “‘The stories are a bit sinister’: the secrets of London’s hidden rivers revealed”
Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Treat him like he’s a grandpa in a nursing home’
Late-night hosts focused on Donald Trump’s snap press conference on Wednesday as well as the controversy over Democratic candidates appearing on Fox News. Seth Meyers “Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Treat him like he’s a grandpa in a nursing home’”
Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in ‘historic achievement’
Algeria and Argentina have been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, in what has been described as a “historic achievement” for both countries. The “Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in ‘historic achievement’”
2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change plan
The first three Democratic presidential candidates to declare their plans to tackle the climate crisis are focussing on setting deadlines to neutralize US pollution. But “2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change plan”
American who fought for Taliban freed early from US prison
John Walker Lindh, the American captured in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, has been released early from federal prison, instantly drawing the fury of senior “American who fought for Taliban freed early from US prison”
Mario Batali faces criminal charges for alleged assault in Boston
The celebrity chef Mario Batali is facing criminal charges for allegedly groping and forcibly kissing a woman at a restaurant in Boston. Batali, who has “Mario Batali faces criminal charges for alleged assault in Boston”
A promise unfulfilled: water pipeline stops short for Sioux reservation
Up until late last year, Ella Coleman, a diminutive, soft-spoken Oglala Sioux grandmother who lives in one of the hundreds of mobile homes on the “A promise unfulfilled: water pipeline stops short for Sioux reservation”
Narendra Modi: from impoverished tea seller to master of political theatre
The boy who once sold tea at a railway station has become the most influential Indian leader in generations, winning a landslide in election results “Narendra Modi: from impoverished tea seller to master of political theatre”