Authorities say massive overcrowding, insufficient exits, and other factors contributed to a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Northern India that killed at least 121 people. Five more people died on Wednesday morning, local official Manish Chaudhry said, and were still being treated in hospital. The stampede happened on Tuesday afternoon in a village in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state, as large crowds rushed to exit a makeshift tent.
When Britain goes to the polls tomorrow to elect its next government, each party will be hoping the promises set out in their manifestos last month have connected with voters.
A Greek surveyor was shot in a mafia-style execution on the streets of Athens amid suspicions that he was killed as part of a feud over a Mykonos property development.