Month: January 2011

SAN DIEGO – An 80-year-old woman who claims to be an international jewel thief with a five-decade career has been convicted of stealing an $8,900 ring from a San Diego store. Doris Payne, of Long […] […]

LONDON – British employers will no longer be allowed to force people to retire at 65 years old, unless they can justify the dismissal, the government said Thursday in a bid to lessen pension payouts […] […]

Somalia’s new prime minister said 8,000 government troops will start waging attacks on Islamist insurgents and al Qaeda terrorists “very, very soon.” Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a Somali-American educator, also said in an interview with The […] […]

LAS VEGAS—More than 80 friends and family members of a Las Vegas dancer whose body was found dismembered and encased in concrete have gathered to remember her at a church memorial service. A Catholic Mass […] […]

Hezbollah and its allies brought down the Lebanese Government yesterday amid growing tensions over a United Nations-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri, a former Prime Minister. The collapse of the 14-month-old national […] […]

THE US Supreme Court suspended an execution, hours before it was to be carried out today, of an Alabama man condemned to death 22 years ago for killing his wife. The nation’s highest court granted […] […]

Travellers to Germany no longer have to worry about being hit by a flailing breast at their next airport pat-down after bosses in the country won the right to force employees to wear bras. The […] […]