Month: January 2011

Relatives of a 34-year-old Ajax woman who was a victim of a knife attack in Jamaica are slamming the Canadian government for a “lack of … support.” “She did not receive any guidance or direction […] […]

MOSCOW—A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded on Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, […] […]

CAIRO—Egyptian police say flood waters caused by torrential rains earlier this week swept a bus packed with 77 schoolgirls and their teachers off a highway in the country’s south, ending in the tragic death of […] […]

LONDON—Inmates at an English prison have smashed windows and set fires in a riot that began in the first hours of the new year. The Ministry of Justice said about 40 inmates at Ford open […] […]

CLAIRVOYANTS and astrologers can legally practise in Romania this year after fortune-telling was officially recognised as a profession. The government this week adopted a bill listing fortune-tellers, astrologers and “similar practitioners” along with butlers, embalmers […] […]

BRITAIN celebrated the New Year with a blaze of fireworks over London and Edinburgh, as thousands partied in the streets to welcome in 2011. The London Eye was lit up by a colourful nine-minute salvo […] […]