Month: March 2011

JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world’s worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped. Kan told the Japanese Communist Party leader that […] […]

Britain refused Thursday to offer Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa immunity from prosecution after his apparent defection, but said his departure would hearten rebels fighting to topple Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. British Foreign Secretary William Hague […] […]

Radioactive iodine has been found in ocean water near the plant at 3,355 times the regulatory limit on Tuesday, CNN reported. Monitoring data detected the I-131 isotope at excessive levels 330 metres away from one […] […]

A 5-year-old girl was in a critical condition last night after being caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting in England. The child was visiting relatives with her mother when she was hit in […] […]

SOUTH African police say they have arrested a top rugby player over three axe murders allegedly carried out in revenge for the gang-rape and subsequent HIV-infection of his daughter. The man, who played for the […] […]

A woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists were staying and accused Libyan soldiers of raping her is to be charged with defamation. “Accusing someone of a sex crime in a conservative […] […]

Svetlana Raznatovic, one of Serbia’s most popular folk singers and widow of the Serbian warlord Arkan, is to face trial for allegedly stealing millions of euros from transfers of football players during her time as […] […]

THE scene of what was very nearly another crime against humanity by the Gaddafi regime lies inside a high-walled government compound where the southern fringes of Ajdabiya peter out into rocky desert. Hussam Matar, 50, […] […]

A COURT has ordered the race hate trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders to go ahead. The trial opened in October last year, but was abruptly halted three weeks later when the judges trying […] […]