Month: March 2011

A LIBYAN lobbyist friend of Prince Andrew with drugs and arms convictions gave a diamond necklace said to be worth almost $31,250 to his daughter, Princess Beatrice. The gold necklace with a solitaire diamond was […] […]

BRITISH police have clashed with bottle-throwing protesters at London’s Trafalgar Square, overshadowing a peaceful march by more than 250,000 people against government spending cuts. At least 214 people were arrested and 84 people were hurt […] […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP— A distraught Libyan woman stormed into a Tripoli hotel Saturday to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her, setting off a brawl when hotel staff and government minders tried to detain […] […]

ATHENS, Ga.—The man charged in the shooting death of a Georgia police officer surrendered on live TV late Friday after he emerged from an Athens apartment with five people whom police say he had been […] […]

A man accused of killing a police officer is holding four hostages near a university in the southern US state of Georgia, officials said. Police surrounded accused killer Jamie Hood in an apartment complex near […] […]

Nuclear experts from Greenpeace have started monitoring radiation near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 atomic power plant. Greenpeace said it believed Japanese authorities may have been underplaying the scale of the disaster at the quake- […] […]

Coalition forces have carried out a seventh day of air and missile strikes against the Libyan regime’s forces as Nato appointed a Canadian general to oversee the campaign. French President Nicolas Sarkozy held out hopes […] […]