Month: October 2010

The Commonwealth Games is facing a new crisis – reports that up to 15 swimmers on the England and Australian teams have a stomach virus potentially caused by the suspect quality of water at the […] […]

THE US has apologised for a helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for insurgents. The apology, which came after a joint […] […]

A VETERAN federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan has been arrested during a drug deal in the company of a stripper. Jack Camp, 67, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, minutes after handing $US160 […] […]

AN Adelaide woman charged with murdering her husband by setting him alight says she just wanted to “purify his penis”, to end an affair and have him stay with her. Rajini Narayan, 46, has pleaded […] […]

NATO says an airstrike and a raid by ground troops killed a Taliban leader and seven fighters in northern Afghanistan. An alliance statement today  says Maulawi Jawadullah – accused of organising deadly ambushes, roadside bomb […] […]

A US security official said yesterday the country was capable of withstanding another terrorist attack and bouncing back, saying Americans needed to put extremist threats in “perspective”. Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, […] […]