Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World Is Reported
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the human skeleton of what they conclude is the earliest known gunshot victim in the New World.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  May 30--GULFPORT -- Police today confirmed an 8-year-old girl was wounded by a gunshot fired into a residence Tuesday night in the Turn Key community.
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Gripping a pair of pliers, a doctor pried a bullet from Amina Kharim&#39;s swollen and bleeding left arm. Eight hours earlier, at dawn Tuesday, she had been asleep
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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Recent observations have uncovered evidence that helps to confirm the identification of the remains of one of the earliest stellar explosions recorded by humans. The new study shows that the supernova remnant RCW 86 is much younger than previously thought.
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BELEM, Brazil -- A 74-year-old American nun was shot and killed early yesterday in Brazil's Amazon jungle, where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and the rain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A gunbattle broke out between UN peacekeepers and supporters of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide yesterday, wounding a peacekeeper for the first time in the force&#39;s 4-month-old mission.
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A YOUNG Australian peacekeeper shot in the back by a sniper in the Solomon Islands yesterday was a hero before he died. Australian Protective Service officer Adam Dunning, 26, was murdered during an early morning attack in the capital Honiara.
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The U.S. government on Thursday officially recognized the American Indians whose ancestors met the British Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and fought in a bloody conflict over the first U.S. colonies.
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The New York Times has identified the gunner in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September as a 28-year-old former infantry soldier from Texas.
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A skull fragment found in a 400-year-old trash pit at Jamestown contains evidence of the earliest known surgery - and autopsy - in the English colonies in America, researchers say.
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The Madain Saleh killings were the first of foreigners since 2004 A French teenager has died of his wounds after a shooting in Saudi Arabia, raising the death toll to four.Comment
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The man suspected of shooting six hunters to death and a survivor agree that the tragedy began with a confrontation on private land. But they sharply differ on what happened next.
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Unidentified gunmen fatally shot a hard-hitting radio commentator in the southern Philippines on Monday, police and the victim's colleagues said, in the fifth deadly attack on a Philippine journalist this year.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Police in Honduras began investigating an horrific massacre of 26 people, killed when their bus was strafed by automatic gunfire, in what officials suspect was a message from local gangs to crime-busting politicians and President
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One man was shot dead and another left in serious condition after an early morning shooting in Streatham, south London.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.