Obama in jubilant Ireland: `I've come home'

He down a pint of Guinness with a far-away cousin and checked out centuries-old parish records tracing his family to Ireland. From the tiny village of Money gall to a huge, reassuring crowd in Dublin, President Barack Obama opened his four-nation trip through Europe on Monday with an unlikely homecoming far detached from the grind politics of Washington and the world.

"My name is Barack Obama, of the Money gall Obamas, and I've come home to find the apostrophe we lost anywhere along the way," a clearly tickled Obama — make that Obama — told the spread out throng at Dublin's College Green with his wife, Michelle, right by him. "We suffer very much at home."

Obama's feel-good immoderation in Ireland came at the start of a four-country, six-day trip that is bound to get into stickier matters as he goes. The only hindrance on day one was the exposure of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that led the president to leave Ireland with no even a night's stay and land in England on Monday night.

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Gadhafi: Leaders of airstrikes should go, not me

Moammar Gadhafi struck a disobedient posture Thursday after two high-profile defections from his government, saying he's not the one who should go — it's the Western leaders who have destroy his military with air strikes who should leave right away.

Gadhafi's note was weaken by its delivery — a scroll cross ways the bottom of state TV as he stay out of sight. The White House said the strongman's internal circle was clearly breakdown with the loss of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, who flew from Tunisia to England on Wednesday.

Ali Abdessalam Treki, a previous foreign minister and U.N. General Assembly president, proclaimed his departure on several resistance websites the next day, saying "It is our nation's right to live in freedom and democratic organization and take pleasure in a good life."

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Relatives of Harry Potter actress charged in attack

The father and brother of a Harry Potter actress will appear in the court later this month in Manchester, England, on charges of threatening to kill the young star, prosecutors said Friday.

Abdul Azad, 54, and his son Ashraf, 28, are accused of attacking the actress Afshan Azad earlier this month because of her relationship with a Hindu man, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said. The family is Muslim.


The father and brother appeared at the Manchester Magistrate's Court on Wednesday and were released on conditional bail, said the spokesman, who could not be named in line with policy.

Bail conditions include a curfew and ban on traveling to London, the Manchester Evening News reported.

Afshan Azad, reported to be 22, has appeared in four Harry Potter films as Padma Patil, a classmate of the boy wizard and the twin sister of Parvati Patil.

The alleged attack happened May 21. The father and brother are charged with the threatening to kill the actress, and her brother is also charged with assault, the prosecutors' spokesman said.

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17-Year-Old Mother Gives Birth After 20 Days of Labor

A 17-year-old mother gave birth to her first son five months prematurely after enduring labor for almost three weeks, The Telegraph reported.

Amy Buck from the county of Lancashire, England went into labor on May 4 and delivered her son Daniel 20 days later.

"At 19 weeks and five days I went into labor,” Buck said. “Until then there had been no other complications, I just felt a bit uncomfortable. But I thought it was natural. The nurses sent me home saying it was just my womb but I knew there was something wrong.”

Fifteen days later, Buck said the pain she felt was unbearable. She returned to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary to learn that she had been fully in labor and had contracted an infection that was a risk to Daniel’s life. The doctors gave him a 15 percent chance of survival.

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12 Dead in England Shooting Rampage

At least 12 people have been killed and 25 injured by a gunman who went on a rampage in Northern England before killing himself.

Police look under a sheet covering a body on Hagget End Road, in Egremont northwest England where a person was shot dead when taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a shooting rampage in northwest England,

The suspect, identified as local taxi driver Derrick Bird, apparently drove through several small towns, shooting as he went. Police are investigating 30 different crime scenes and carefully are tracing the suspect's route, concerned that they could find more bodies.

The first shooting occurred at 9:35 a.m. GMT, when Bird opened fire on Duke Street in the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven. Among the victims was a young woman.

"She died in our arms, we tried to shake her and said, 'Come on, come on, the ambulance is coming,' but she wasn't conscious," eyewitness Barry Cross told the BBC News.

"They were serious gunshot wounds," Cross said. "It looked like he must've seen her and pulled over, walked out with his sniper and shot her point blank in the back of her head."