Month: January 2011

ONE OF President Obama’s closest advisers suffered an unexpected setback yesterday in his ambition to become mayor of Chicago after a panel ruled that he did not meet the eligibility requirements. Rahm Emanuel gave up […] […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians now have their own version of a WikiLeaks scandal. President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides went on the attack Monday, accusing Al-Jazeera TV of lies and distortions in publishing […] […]

A specialized ship began laying an undersea fiber-optic cable Saturday between Venezuela and Cuba, a connection that will dramatically improve Cuba’s telephone and internet services. Officials of the two countries launched the project in a […] […]

HARTFORD, Connecticut – A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probation violation charge yesterday, days after a widely publicised reunion […] […]

A DELTA Air Lines pilot was jailed for six months by a UK court for turning up drunk in London to fly a transatlantic passenger plane, according to British media said today. George La Perle, […] […]

TRANSNATIONAL crime gangs are trafficking a growing number of Chinese women to Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa where they are forced into prostitution, a Chinese newspaper said today. The official China Daily cited a senior […] […]

A BRITISH security contractor has told an Iraqi court he was acting in self-defence when he shot two co-workers, including an Australian, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in […] […]