Month: December 2010

MANILA, Philippines—Officials say an 80-year-old woman has died and her son is missing after they were swept away by floodwaters in eastern Philippines, where landslides and flooding have prompted some 4,000 people to evacuate to […] […]

DANISH police have evacuated a building where one of five suspects in a plot to massacre staff at a newspaper was arrested, after finding what may be explosives. Denmark’s PET intelligence service earlier today said […] […]

COLOMBIA’S President has hailed the killing by police of Pedro Guerrero, a notorious drug lord known as “The Knife” who had a $US2.5 million American bounty on his head. Authorities say the former paramilitary, known […] […]

BAGHDAD—Police commander Lt. Col. Shamil al-Jabouri knew Al Qaeda wanted him dead. He was renowned in the tense northern city of Mosul for his relentless pursuit of the terror group, and insurgents had tried at […] […]

With a heavy bandage around her neck, Cathy-Lee Martin of Ajax testified in a Jamaican court Tuesday that her husband tried to slit her throat while on vacation. She and her husband, Paul Martin, were […] […]

Question: Two years ago, after being married for three years, I cheated on my husband with my 16-year-old daughter’s biological dad. I felt I never had closure and am also a victim of domestic violence. […] […]

A 35-year-old chair lift due to be replaced has derailed in high winds, sending skiers – some of them children – plummeting into ungroomed snow at a popular Maine ski resort. Five adults and three […] […]

A 29-year-old man has been arrested by Homicide Squad detectives after the body of a man was found in a house at Doncaster East yesterday. The Doncaster man is being interviewed by police but at […] […]

CHINA is expected to announce a crackdown on lavish parties and seminars organised by officials in the coming year in the latest effort to curb corruption seen as undermining the government. China’s ruling party met […] […]