Month: January 2011

THE BBC has apologised to Japan for an episode of the comedy quiz QI in which Stephen Fry joked about an old man who survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The BBC […] […]

FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair was barracked by relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq yesterday as he urged the West to deal with a “looming and coming challenge” of Iran. The former Prime Minister […] […]

WASHINGTON—They don’t hold public office anymore. And the once mighty electoral machine that could make a winning politician of anyone with the name Kennedy is long gone, too. Yet just when it seemed safe to […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier told Haitians that he returned after 25 years in exile to participate in the post-earthquake reconstruction of his homeland and that he was ready to face “persecution” for […] […]

German defence officials yesterday ordered its navy’s prestigious three-masted training-ship to break from its round-the-world voyage and dock in Argentina, as ministry staff flew in to investigate reports of a mutiny after a female recruit […] […]

A Los Angeles law firm that sued the Franklin Mint for marketing Princess Diana memorabilia has agreed to pay the mint’s former owners $25 million (NZ$33m) to settle a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The settlement was […] […]