Month: April 2011

IT will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said today. […] […]

AMMAN — President Bashar al-Assad ended Syria’s state of emergency, in effect for nearly 50 years, on Thursday in a bid to defuse pro-democracy protests against his authoritarian rule that have gripped the country for […] […]

A 29-year-old Toronto man charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 23-year-old York University student Qian Liu is an amateur actor who also attended York. Brian Dickson was remanded in custody until April 26 […] […]

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the name of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne removed from all public facilities and institutions — the latest step in dismantling the legacy of […] […]

WASHINGTON — The Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website was transferred Wednesday to an Army prison in Kansas from the Marine brig in Virginia where he has spent […] […]

TWO Afghan women were killed in an operation in eastern Afghanistan that also left 17 insurgents dead, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said today. Local officials had previously said that two women and […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Investigators found 26 badly decomposed bodies at a vacant lot in the northern Mexico state of Durango on Wednesday and said they were looking for more. The grisly Holy Week discovery came just days […] […]

LONDON—Police say a small improvised explosive device has been thrown at a police foot patrol in Northern Ireland, but the device caused no injuries. Police said Wednesday the small, hand-held bomb exploded but none of […] […]

Canadian investigators have arrested a 29-year-old man in the death of a student from Beijing, who was last seen alive on a webcam by her boyfriend in China as she struggled with an attacker. Brian […] […]