Month: January 2011

RIO DE JANEIRO—Police in Brazil say two brothers are accused of killing their father by knocking him out with sleeping pills and then burying him alive. Antonio Valente Filho is chief of police in Timon, […] […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary has given birth to twins—a boy and a girl—the royal court announced Saturday. The palace said Mary has become the proud mother of “two fine children” at the national Rigshospitalet […] […]

ATOMIC chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared in a report today that Iran is capable of making its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, technology the West says the Islamic republic does not possess. Salehi, the […] […]

RADICAL Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr today urged a boisterous crowd to resist the US “occupation” by all means, in his first speech since returning to his Iraqi home city of Najaf. “We still resist the […] […]

WIKILEAKS says the Twitter accounts of four supporters had been subpoenaed in connection with an espionage investigation into the whistleblowing website led by a secret US grand jury. WikiLeaks, which began releasing 251,287 US diplomatic […] […]

VANCOUVER—The two men acquitted in the Air India bombings would be in prison now had the only person ever convicted in the case told the truth, a senior Mountie suggested Friday after Inderjit Singh Reyat […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israel’s newly retired spy chief thinks Iran will not be able to build a nuclear bomb before 2015, Israeli media reported Friday—further pushing back Israeli intelligence estimates of when Tehran might become a nuclear power. […] […]