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The mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shooting used the opportunity to fill in for President Barack Obama during the weekly radio and Internet address to make a personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence. 'Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief,' said Francine Wheeler, choking back tears in the address broadcast Saturday. 'Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.' Ben Wheeler was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.  Sandy Hook mother's heartbreaking plea for gun control in the US Francine Wheeler was the first person to deliver the address other than Obama or Vice President Joe Biden since the two took office in 2009. Her husband, David Wheeler, sat silently next to her as she made the recording in the White House Library. Bo

Firefighters and emergency crews are at a loss to explain what made at least 16 adults fall ill at a children's store in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the Buy Buy Baby store at 4650 Southwest Loop 820 in Fort Worth twice on Saturday. The patients reported feeling dizzy, headaches and vomiting. Firefighters and emergency crews are at a loss to explain what made at least 16 adults fall ill at Buy Buy Baby The Fort Worth fire department said that when the initial call came in, two employees complained they weren't feeling well and one became nauseous. The scene was cleared and business resumed. Then, about an hour later, the number who had fallen ill had risen. The store was cleared and fans were brought in to clear the air inside the facility.   More... Horror as man is set on fire inside his SUV by homeless man after he refused to give him money A fire department spokesman said carbon monoxide had

Family and friends of the Canadian teen who hanged herself after she was allegedly raped and bullied for months were urged at her funeral on Saturday to celebrate her life and use her story to draw attention to the circumstances that contributed to her death. More than 100 people filled St. Mark's Anglican Church to pay their last respects to 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, whose family said she was photographed while being sexually assaulted in 2011 by four boys and bullied after the photo went viral online. The teen's death last Sunday has been compared with two other episodes recently in the news - the death of a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after she was allegedly sexually abused and an explicit photo of the assault circulated online among her classmates, and a case in Ohio in which two high school football players were convicted of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, an incident recorded on cellphones and gossiped about online. Police had

Margaret Thatcher’s funeral service will be dominated by movingly patriotic selections of music and verse, chosen by the former Prime Minister herself. The service, conducted by the Bishop of London, the Right Rev Richard Chartres – a long-standing friend of Lady Thatcher – will reflect her public love of her country and her private literary tastes. Lady Thatcher’s coat of arms is on the front page of the Order of Service, as granted following her elevation to the peerage in 1992. Underneath are the words ‘Cherish Freedom’, her motto. On the second page is the poem Little Gidding, by T. S. Eliot, written at the height of the Blitz in 1941. The poet was a particular favourite of Lady Thatcher. What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them. The moment of the rose and the mo

Boris Johnson yesterday led calls for a statue of Baroness Thatcher to be erected in Parliament Square. The Major of London suggested a permanent memorial to Lady Thatcher should be placed alongside other prominent figures, including Winston Churchill. His comments came after Ken Livingstone said the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square – the previous forerunner for the site – was being reserved for the Queen. Mr Johnson said that ‘it is right that she should be properly commemorated’. He added that he has instructed City Hall officials to find ‘the right kind of place’ in the capital to erect a statue. He said: ‘People say put it on the fourth plinth – I think we’ve been around that a lot. Actually, there are better sites than that. I think we should look at Parliament Square. ‘There are other places in the heart of the capital that would do very well.’ But Labour today dismissed the idea of using the scene of poll tax riots as 'crass triumphalism', claiming Bar

On Saturday Russia responded against sanctions from the United States banning 18 Russian officials from the country by returning the favor and banning 18 Americans from its country. The Foreign Ministry released the list, with the highest-profile name being former Vice President Dick Cheney. Other officials on the list include David Addington, Cheney's former chief of staff and John Yoo, a former official with the U.S. Justice Department. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz attending the 2005 Presidential Inauguration Tensions between Russia and the United States have remained frosty but neither country would like to see relations  crumble further Earlier this week the United States imposed visa and bank sanctions against Russian officials accused of human rights violations. The names on that list mostly stem from the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer arrested for tax evasion in 2008 after accusing several high-ra