Month: October 2010

IN ITS biggest arms deal ever, the US will sell up to $US60 billion worth of warplanes, helicopters and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, partly to help it counter Iran. The plan allows for the […] […]

A 26-YEAR-OLD Belgian schoolteacher has been found guilty of killing her romantic rival by sabotaging her parachute in a skydiving love-triangle. Els Clottemans sat stony-faced as the jury’s verdict was read out following a trial […] […]

BRITISH taxpayers will have to work a year longer to earn a pension as one of the major surprises in the heaviest budget cuts in decades. The measures will slash 490,000 public sector jobs over […] […]

A US federal appeals court has granted the government’s request to temporarily maintain a ban on gays serving openly in the American military. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals suspended an […] […]

AN American man has pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and making threats against the writers of the popular South Park television show. Zachary Adam Chesser, from Virginia, faces a maximum […] […]

BAGHDAD—An American soldier was charged Wednesday with killing two fellow U.S. troops and wounding a third after an argument last month in a former Iraqi insurgent stronghold turned deadly. Army Spc. Neftaly Platero was charged […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—An Iranian-American businessman freed after more than two years in an Iranian prison on accusations of passing money to a rebel group claimed Wednesday that officials in Tehran have urged him to prove his […] […]