Month: April 2011

YEMENI security forces shot dead 15 anti-regime demonstrators and wounded scores more on the second day of lethal clashes in Taiz, south of the capital, medics said. “The death toll has gone up to 15,” […] […]

ATHENS, GREECE—Greek fighter jets were scrambled Monday to escort a British passenger plane to Athens airport after it received a bomb threat while on its way from Britain to Egypt. Greece’s Air Force said two […] […]

LONDON—The four men wading ashore on a Florida beach wearing nothing but bathing trunks and German army hats looked like an unlikely invading force. Declassified British intelligence files describe how the men were part of […] […]

PRIME Minister Bruce Golding yesterday rejected a suggestion that he had tipped off former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke about the pending request for his extradition. Golding testified during cross-examination at the Dudus/Manatt Commission […] […]

BEIRUT—Lebanese security officials say a group of young men has attacked a U.S. Embassy convoy with stones during a visit to a southern city. No one was hurt. The officials say the U.S. Embassy group […] […]

A BRITISH woman aged 84 has triggered new controversy over assisted suicide after taking her life at a Swiss clinic because she did not want to die of old age. Nan Maitland, who suffered from […] […]

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—Fearing for their lives, the UN workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Qur’an by a Florida church. Hope wasn’t enough […] […]

Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than US$1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a “Third Intifada” against Israel. Facebook this […] […]

President Barack Obama has condemned a US pastor’s burning of the Koran, after violent protests at what he called an act of “extreme intolerance and bigotry” left 17 dead in Afghanistan. Ten people died yesterday […] […]

A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland’s police force has been killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car, police and neighbours said. No group claimed responsibility for […] […]