Month: May 2010

SHANGHAI, China — Usain Bolt has won the 200 meters at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai with a time of 19.76 seconds. The reigning world and Olympic champion over 100 and 200 meters was […] […]

THE Taliban claimed responsibility yesterday for a night-time assault on NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan, in which insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons tried to storm Kandahar air field. It was the second […] […]

A JORDANIAN man was charged with raping and murdering his daughter after allegedly impregnating and then carrying out an abortion during which she died, police said. “The 19-year-old woman died on Sunday morning of severe […] […]

SIX people were shot with one person confirmed dead at a house party in Queens, New York yesterday. The incident took place at 182nd Street and 145th Drive in the Springfield Gardens section of the […] […]

A man was in critical condition tonight after a shooting that apparently resulted from a domestic dispute at an apartment complex in unincorporated Bay Point, a Contra Costa County sheriff’s lieutenant said. The shooting was […] […]

They see benevolence rather than crime A noticeable feature of last Thursday’s demonstration in support of Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was that the majority of protestors were women. In what was obviously a […] […]