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Two teenagers have been killed in a double shooting incident in Salford, Greater Manchester. Officers were called to reports of shots being fired on Orion Place, just off Heath Avenue, in Lower Broughton on Saturday morning. They found a 15-year-old girl dead at the scene. A man, aged 18, was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital but died en-route. The Heath Avenue area is sealed off  ...

By Kate Holton FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Draped in red and white and bellowing "Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland", thousands of England supporters took over the city of Frankfurt on Saturday for their side's opening World Cup game against Paraguay. The fans gathered in the city's Romerberg square, flying the English flag of St George with such slogans as "Bolton till I die" and "Stoke City forever" i ...

By Glenn Somerville and Sumeet Desai ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Finance ministers from the G8 economic powers predicted a year of strong economic growth on Saturday despite high oil prices, skidding U.S. stock prices, rising interest rates and fears of inflation. Meeting in St Petersburg, the ministers said in a communiqué that economic growth was healthy and becoming more broadly based despite the threat from oil at $70 a barrel and other imbalances -- one of which is the big U.S. trad ...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - The Group of Eight nations are agreed there is a pressing need to break the deadlock on world trade talks, Chancellor Gordon Brown said on Saturday. Talking to reporters after a meeting of G8 finance ministers in St Petersburg, Brown said protectionist pressures were rising and threatening global growth even as high oil prices risked sending inflation up. "The concern t ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas fired rockets at Israel on Saturday, formally ending a 16-month-old truce, after seven Palestinians on a Gaza beach were killed by Israeli shelling. Thousands of Palestinian mourners wept with 7-year-old Huda Ghalya as she kneeled to kiss her dead father before he, her mother and three siblings were buried in northern Gaza. The five, including a 4-month-old, a 3-year-old and a 10-year-old, were among the seven killed during a seaside outing on Frida ...

By Tim Castle LONDON (Reuters) - Police were accused on Saturday of bungling after staging a huge raid in search of a chemical bomb and shooting a suspect -- but then being forced to free him and his brother without charge within days. No bomb was found in the search of the house in the ethnically mixed area of Forest Gate in east London. The brothers arrested there, Muslims aged 20 and 23, were released on Friday evening. Murad Qureshi, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority said Scot ...

Hundreds of naked cyclists and skaters are to take to British streets on Saturday as part of a global protest over the dependence on oil. Up to 500 riders are expected to travel routes in central London and Brighton as part of the World Naked Bike Ride. The event was first held in 2004 when more than 120 riders cycled naked through London and Edinburgh. Last year 250 people took part in the event, making it the UK's biggest-ever naked protest. The event is due to start at 1530BST (1430GMT). ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has fired rockets at Israel for the first time since its truce 16 months ago, in response to civilian deaths. Hamas accuses Israel of killing seven civilians, three of them children, who were caught in an explosion as they relaxed on a Gaza beach on Friday Israel, which has been using artillery against suspected Gaza rocket squads, promised to investigate the deaths. There were no immediate Israeli reports of damage from the Hamas rockets.  ...

By Brian Garrity NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's the latest rock 'n' roll cliche: buzz band rides wave of Internet hype to claim Next Big Thing status. But the rise of blog mania is creating fears of too much buzz too soon for a growing number of acts looking to establish lasting fan bases in the United States. Savvy bands and their labels, in an attempt to avoid being swept up in an inadvertent med ...

By Gernot Heller ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Finance ministers from the G8 economic powers predicted a year of strong economic growth on Saturday despite high oil prices, skidding U.S. stock prices, rising interest rates and fears of inflation. Meeting in St Petersburg, the ministers issued a communique saying economic growth was healthy and becoming more broadly based despite a threat from oil prices of $70 per barrel and other imbalances such as the huge U.S. trade deficit. Financial  ...