Month: April 2011

A US woman charged with attempted murder for withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son testified Friday that she did not give him at least five months of chemotherapy medications because the side effects made […] […]

US authorities have fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $US70 million ($67.02 million) for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq. The Department of […] […]

AN Australian resident has been jailed for three years by a London court for his costly bomb hoax on an international flight that resulted in an innocent man being interrogated by police. Military fighter jets […] […]

THE owner of Britain’s News of the World newspaper has offered an “unreserved apology” for phone hacking and said it would set up a compensation fund. Rupert Murdoch’s News International said it admitted liability in […] […]

ISRAELI warplanes and tanks hammered Gaza yesterday and early today, killing 11 people in the deadliest day of violence in the strip since the end of the Gaza war two years ago. A truce declared […] […]

SENDAI, JAPAN—Nearly a half-million homes suffered blackouts in Japan’s northeast Friday after a new earthquake killed three people and piled more misery on a region buried under the rubble of last month’s devastating tsunami. The […] […]

NATO refused to apologise today for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles. “I’m not apologising,” Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy […] […]

FRENCH police have located wanted and “dangerous” British paedophile twins Kenneth and Thomas Parker, who have apparently been living in France for years, a judicial source says. The twins, reportedly former mercenaries who fought in […] […]

TENS of thousands of Egyptians have massed in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square two months after president Hosni Mubarak was ousted, to demand that former regime officials including the veteran strongman be purged and tried. Waving […] […]

ONE person died and another was in life-threatening condition today after shots were fired onboard the British nuclear submarine HMS Astute while it was docked in Southampton, southern England, police said. Police said they have […] […]