Month: June 2010

Rarely can a country have greeted its own national team’s humiliation in the World Cup with such grim satisfaction. Under the headline “les imposteurs”, the French national sports daily L’Equipe yesterday begged its readers to […] […]

A US drone fired two missiles into an Al-Qa’ida hideout in Pakistan’s tribal belt, killing 11 militants in a district on the Afghan border. The strike took place today in Inzarabad village, 25 kilometres east […] […]

A dozen white balloons were all that announced the rag-tag group in a car park opposite Utah State Prison. White is for mercy. But these folks in Draper expected none on this starry evening. Exactly […] […]

STOCKTON, Calif.—The evidence against her mounted, but Melissa Huckaby stuck to her story as police questioned her in April 2009: She had nothing to do with the abduction, rape and murder of an 8-year-old neighbor […] […]

ANDIZHAN, UZBEKISTAN—The United States called Friday for an international investigation into ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, as the country’s leader said the death toll could be 10 times higher than the official tally of 190. Russia, […] […]