Month: November 2010

SAN DIEGO – Federal authorities in San Diego have made one of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States, confiscating 20 tonnes of pot near an underground tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of […] […]

SYDNEY – A British author faces a possible jail term in Singapore after being convicted yesterday of contempt of court for criticising the city-state’s judiciary in a book on its use of the death penalty. […] […]

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit out at “indecent attacks” against him, following a series of lurid revelations in the press about his liaisons with call-girls. “I will stay on despite the daily baseless attacks […] […]

THE world’s oldest person, a nun named Eugenie Blanchard, has died aged 114 in the French West Indies. Ms Blanchard died in hospital on Saint-Barthelemy, an island some 250km north of Guadeloupe, around 3am (5.00am […] […]

BRITAIN’S Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has issued an intervention notice over News Corp’s plans to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB and is refering the matter to media regulator Ofcom. Ofcom will investigate whether […] […]

FRENCH police have arrested two men suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told France 2 television the pair was suspected of having links to a terrorist group. “They were […] […]

GREEK police announced that a 14th parcel bomb had been intercepted and detonated after staff at the French embassy raised the alarm over a package delivered to them. The device was ostensibly sent from the […] […]

SINGAPORE—Qantas grounded all six of its Airbus A380 superjumbos after one blew out an engine Thursday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before the world’s largest airliner made a safe emergency landing in Singapore […] […]