Month: February 2011

ARMY investigators in Washington have concluded Iraq war commanders ignored recommendations that Bradley Manning, the United States Army Private accused of leaking classified documents, was not fit for deployment, FOXNews.com reported Wednesday. An internal army […] […]

EDMONTON—Would-be Jihadist suicide bomber or playful loving family man? Those were the two starkly different ways suspected terrorist Sayfilden Tahir Sharif was portrayed Wednesday at his bail hearing in Edmonton. A photograph snapped by Cara […] […]

CAIRO—The battle for the heart of Cairo has left a bloodied city seething with the hatred of hand-to-hand civil war. The prize is Tahrir Square: Protesters opposed to President Hosni Mubarak hold it, those who […] […]

A newly released U.S. diplomatic cable discloses the existence of previously undisclosed participants in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot: a group of Qatari men who conducted surveillance of targets in New York and the Washington […] […]

A winter weather colossus roared into America’s heartland yesterday, laying down a paralysing punch of dangerous ice and whiteout snow that served notice from Texas to Maine that the storm billed as the worst in […] […]

* One killed, almost 600 injured in violent clashes Thousands of supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo’s main square this morning (NZ time), raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other […] […]

Relatives of an Alabama woman who died during a 2003 honeymoon scuba diving trip in Australia were pleased when a Jefferson County judge set an early trial date for the capital murder charge against her […] […]

LONDON – England and Wales yesterday became the first countries in the world to release street-by-street information on every crime and act of anti-social behaviour reported to police. A website, police.uk, which went live yesterday, […] […]

THE turmoil in Egypt spread to Jordan last night as King Abdullah sacked his government and appointed a new prime minister, Maruf Bakhit, with orders to carry out “true political reforms”. The king’s edict followed […] […]

AN American woman who called herself “JihadJane” has pleaded guilty to terror-related charges stemming from a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Colleen LaRose simply replied “yes” when she was asked by US […] […]