Month: December 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan—Several hundred demonstrators, some holding photographs of victims of three decades of war, shouted for justice and peace Friday in the Afghan capital, just hours before a suicide car bomber blew himself up in […] […]

LONDON—British police were searching Friday for vandals who chopped down a thorn tree venerated for centuries by Christians. The Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree, said to have links to the earliest days of Christianity in England, […] […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian police arrested one of the country’s most-wanted Islamic militants Friday, accusing him of plotting high-profile assassinations and bloody attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels in the capital. Abu Tholut was captured without a […] […]

AID agencies in southern Sudan said the humanitarian situation was worsening as tensions built over the region’s bid for independence from the north, Sky News reported today. Tens of thousands of refugees who fled decades […] […]

BEIJING—China battened down the hatches and choked off websites that could carry broadcasts of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Friday — hoping to seal off the country from news honouring jailed Chinese writer and dissident […] […]

Prince Charles in his tuxedo looks anxiously ahead as a protester’s fist pounds on his car. His wife Camilla’s mouth gapes in shock above her emerald dress. These are the dramatic images captured by an […] […]