Month: April 2011

A wave of tornado-spawning storms swept the US South, splintering buildings across hard-hit Alabama and killing 72 people in four states. At least 58 people died in Alabama alone, including 15 or more when a […] […]

Britain has revoked a royal wedding invitation to the Syrian ambassador because of violent attacks on protesters by the regime there. Human rights groups have criticized the decision to invite ambassador Sami Khiyami to Prince […] […]

ARTILLERY fire boomed across the Thai-Cambodian frontier for a seventh day today as fierce border clashes erupted again between the two neighbours and the death toll rose to 15. Loud explosions could be heard since […] […]

AN Alabama judge is set to decide whether Gabe Watson will walk free or face a murder trial over his wife’s scuba diving death in Queensland. Judge Tommy Nail is scheduled to announce early Friday […] […]

AT least three people were killed and 15 others wounded today after a bomb hit a Pakistani navy bus in the restive southern port city of Karachi, in the third such attack this week. “A […] […]

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-A deadly tornado stretching a mile wide tore through downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday evening, destroying homes and buildings and bringing further damage to a region already battered by storms. Across the state, at […] […]

AT least eight international troops, a contractor and an Afghan air force pilot were killed yesterday in a shootout at Kabul international airport following an argument between the supposedly allied forces. A 50-year-old Afghan military […] […]

THE White House moved last night to end persistent rumours about Barack Obama’s birthplace by releasing his original long Certificate of Live Birth that confirms he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. The […] […]

EIGHT NATO troops and a contractor died today after an Afghan military officer opened fire in a meeting – the deadliest incident so far in which Afghan security forces have turned against their coalition partners, […] […]

CHIEFS or representatives of 61 tribes across Libya last night called for an end to Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, in a statement released by French writer Bernard-Henri Levy. “Faced with the threats weighing on the unity […] […]