Month: November 2010

ALABAMA prosecutors will allege Gabe Watson murdered his wife on their Queensland honeymoon to pocket $US200,000 in insurance payouts. The theory was revealed just minutes after Watson walked off a Qantas flight from Melbourne and […] […]

AT least 21 people have been killed and 153 arrested in four days of clashes as Brazilian security forces crack down on drug gangs in Rio’s violent slums. The growing violence casts more doubt on […] […]

FOOTAGE has been released showing the pinpoint accuracy of an RAF drone, controlled from an air base in Nevada, destroying a Taliban bomb-making factory in Afghanistan. The strike by an unmanned Reaper aircraft was so […] […]

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA—South Korea’s defence minister resigned Thursday, two days after an artillery attack by North Korea killed four people on small island near their disputed frontier. The move came as President Lee Myung-bak […] […]

OTTAWA—The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage American relations with allies around the world. U.S. officials say the documents may contain […] […]