Month: January 2011

Cupid beware: Iran says it’s cracking down on the symbols of Valentine’s Day. The annual homage to romance on February 14 has become popular in recent years in Iran and other places in the Middle […] […]

BAGHDAD—A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car northeast of Baghdad, killing one passerby and injuring 33, police and hospital officials said. In two other, separate incidents Monday, a policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting […] […]

BARACK Obama has signed into law a bill to compensate emergency responders sickened in the rubble of the September 11 attacks, the White House has said. “We will never forget the selfless courage demonstrated by […] […]

A “perfect husband” left in a coma during a Kings Cross brawl has died after relatives made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support machine. The grief-stricken wife of Wilson Duque Castillo, 33, […] […]

SAKINEH Mohammadi Ashtiani — the Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning has caused international outrage — left prison yesterday to dine with her children and speak to the media. Her son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh […] […]

ISRAELI troops shot dead a Palestinian carrying a bottle at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus late yesterday, less than 48 hours after a female protester died after being teargassed. Palestinian officials […] […]

A SENIOR Iranian official has raised the possibility that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani could be spared execution by stoning for alleged adultery. Asked yesterday if the sentence could be commuted, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of the […] […]

CHRISTIAN demonstrators have pelted an Egyptian minister with stones, as fears rose of sectarian unrest after a church bombing killed 21 people. Hundreds of Coptic Christians gathered inside the gates of Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral […] […]

CHINESE scientists have made a breakthrough in nuclear fuel reprocessing technology that could effectively end any uranium supply concerns, state media reported. The technology developed by state-run China National Nuclear Corp enables the country to […] […]