Month: May 2011

THE world must follow Britain’s lead on nuclear power if it wants to curb greenhouse gases, not that of Germany, which is to scrap all its nuclear plants by 2022, a former government chief scientist […] […]

IN a major turnaround, Syria has pledged full co-operation with the UN to probe evidence that it secretly built a reactor that could have been used to make nuclear arms, according to a secret document. […] […]

AT least 14 civilians were killed and six wounded in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan today. US Marines in Nawzad district of Helmand province called in air support fter their base came under […] […]

MORE than 200 suspected al-Qaeda gunmen have wrested control of the south Yemen city of Zinjibar after two days of heavy fighting with security forces that left 16 dead. The Yemeni opposition accused embattled President […] […]

VOTERS in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Mediterranean state of Malta have voted in favor of legalizing divorce, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi announced Sunday after a weekend referendum. Gonzi, who campaigned against the introduction of divorce […] […]

GUNMEN have killed two Shiite policemen in Pakistan’s southwest. Police officer Amir Mohammad says the attack today at a checkpoint also wounded three bystanders in Quetta city, the capital of the sparsely populated, rugged province […] […]

SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell was considering Sunday suing the Kraft Foods-owned chocolate maker Cadbury over an advertising campaign she claimed was racist. Campbell — famed for her diva-like tendencies — said she was “considering every option […] […]

SYRIAN government troops backed by tanks attacked two central towns today in an attempt to stop round-the-clock protests against President Bashar Assad’s regime, killing at least two people and wounding several others. Security forces in […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber has claimed the life of one of Afghanistan’s most renowned anti-Taliban police commanders and narrowly missed killing a senior NATO commander. Two German soldiers were also among six people killed in the […] […]