Month: January 2011

PHILADELPHIA – A man recently released from prison and believed to have been wandering the streets and staying in abandoned homes was arrested Monday night after being linked by DNA to the sexual assaults and […] […]

LONDON – A former Swiss banker on Monday supplied documents to WikiLeaks that he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments. Rudolf Elmer, an ex-employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius […] […]

ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi had sex with a significant number of prostitutes, Milan prosecutors alleged in documents seeking authorisation to search some of his properties. The prosecutors are leading a probe aimed at […] […]

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy as a preacher of peace and tolerance is being remembered in the US today as Americans marked his memorial day just over a week after the senseless […] […]

A COMPUTER virus created to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme and stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb was designed by American and Israeli experts, it was claimed yesterday. The Stuxnet computer worm, the most sophisticated cyber […] […]

FORMER dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has made a surprise return to Haiti amid a political vacuum left by disputed presidential elections. Returning to his homeland after 25 years in the political wilderness, most of […] […]

CAIRO—Tunisia’s political earthquake has shattered the cozy world of entrenched Arab rulers and destroyed the image of their military-backed regimes as immune to popular discontent and grievances. From Atlantic coast to Gulf shores, live images […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica’s health minister is warning the public to take care when they prepare the popular but potentially deadly ackee fruit following an increase in poisoning cases. Minister Rudyard Spencer says 35 people have fallen […] […]