Month: January 2011

A South Carolina teenager shot and killed his father and his 83-year-old great aunt, and critically wounded his 80-year-old grandmother before he called police to report the attack. The shootings happened Monday night in a […] […]

A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster, says a lawyer for the ex-strongman. […] […]

IT was a killing that shocked Europe but, after a quarter of a century without a credible culprit, new evidence has emerged that may help to solve the mystery of who murdered the Swedish Prime […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the Iraqi city of Tikrit yesterday, killing 50 people and wounding 150. The blast in the insurgency stronghold was the deadliest since […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s former top legal official says Tony Blair insisted the U.K. could join the 2003 invasion of Iraq without additional backing from the U.N., despite legal advice which told him that was untrue. Peter Goldsmith, […] […]