Some spectators at London's Chelsea Flower Show wouldn't be
caught dead with one in the boot of their Bentley, but garden
gnomes have turned up at the show's 100th edition this year,
for charity.
Two car bombs have killed at least four people and wounded
dozens of others in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in
Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus
region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency.
A British father living in France has admitted to killing his
two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky
divorce from his wife, prosecutors say.
A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery
jackpot worth $590.5 million ($NZ730.465m) was sold in Florida, organisers
say, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the
largest jackpots in US history.
Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held
town alongside Syrian troops and Israel threatened more
attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the
risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks
fail.
