Month: January 2011

COLUMBIA: A 66-year-old man was convicted yesterday of killing a waitress nearly 35 years ago before going into hiding for the three decades. Jurors deliberated for about six hours before deciding that suburban Atlanta resident […] […]

WASHINGTON—The State Department is warning Americans of a terrorist threat to Western targets in Azerbaijan and urging U.S. citizens to be vigilant in the oil-rich former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea. In a security […] […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—The Dutch government froze official contacts with Iran on Saturday to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman, the Foreign Ministry said. Iranian Ambassador Gharib Abadi was informed of the sanctions after he […] […]

TEN people died when a regional passenger train collided with a goods train in eastern Germany. Up to 20 other people were seriously injured in the accident which happened at Hordorf near Oschersleben, in Saxony-Anhalt, […] […]

CAIRO—In this chaotic, lawless city, respectful silence returns when they take out the dead. Protesters laying siege to the hated Ministry of the Interior fell quiet Saturday when two soldiers appeared in the no man’s […] […]

THREE teenagers are among five males arrested on suspicion of carrying out cyber attacks on the websites of companies that have refused to do business with WikiLeaks. The five, aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and […] […]