Month: January 2011

A government official says gunmen in Pakistan’s southwest have set ablaze 14 tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan. A driver also was wounded during the attack today. Islamist militants and criminals […] […]

WASHINGTON—Julian Assange, the flamboyant founder of WikiLeaks, is living on a supporter’s 600-acre estate outside London, where he has negotiated $1.7 million in book deals and regularly issues defiant statements about the anti-secrecy group’s plans. […] […]

A SUSPECTED Iranian drug trafficker died after the rupture in his stomach of some of the 137 methamphetamine capsules he had swallowed, Malaysian police say. The 52-year-old traveller was taken to a public hospital after […] […]

A JUDICIAL inquiry has opened into the alleged sexual affair between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and an underage callgirl. Italy’s leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera, said last night the probe would consider whether Mr […] […]