Month: January 2011

A GUNMAN has opened fire inside a Detroit police station, wounding four officers before he was shot and killed by police. The gunman walked in through the precinct’s revolving door shortly after 4pm local time […] […]

He worked his way from typical Kiwi beginnings to become a top-flight Middle East financier earning up to $1 million a year. But as Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison cell, […] […]

The sole US manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas – a move that could delay executions across the United States. Over the past several months, a […] […]

Two Canadian businessmen who were caught up in the deepening diplomatic spat between Ottawa and the U.A.E. are back home in Toronto. Darius Mosun and his business partner were stuck at the Abu Dhabi airport […] […]

ISLAMABAD—A Pakistani actress castigated for appearing to cuddle with an Indian actor on a reality show lashed out at a Muslim cleric who had criticized her during a widely watched television exchange this week. The […] […]

The caravan carrying Gabrielle Giffords swept past cheering crowds as she left a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, where she dazzled doctors with her recovery from being shot in the head two weeks ago, and was […] […]

MEXICO CITY—The trial in the murder of a 16-year-old girl found burned in a trash pile was supposed to showcase U.S.-backed reforms to Mexico’s secretive justice system: Three judges, in the presence of the victim’s […] […]