Month: May 2011

WASHINGTON — A sizeable stash of pornography was among the items seized when U.S. navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, almost two weeks ago, U.S. officials say. The officials said it […] […]

THE court-ordered blinding of an Iranian man who hurled acid in the face of university classmate Ameneh Bahrami has been postponed, the ISNA news agency said without giving a source. “The execution of qesas (retribution […] […]

PAKISTAN’S parliament has demanded an end to US drone strikes on its territory and called for an independent probe into the raid by US troops that killed Osama bin Laden to ensure there is no […] […]

THE death toll from a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre in northwest Pakistan has risen to 89. Pakistan’s Taliban said the attack in the town of Shabqadar – which also wounded […] […]

JAPAN has shut down the final working reactor at a nuclear plant near a tectonic fault line as Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged a new law to help compensate victims of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. […] […]

JURORS in an American woman’s third trial have found her guilty of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven. China Arnold, 31, was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of 28-day-old […] […]

TRIPOLI, Libya—Eleven Muslim clerics were killed in their sleep by a NATO airstrike Friday on the eastern oil town of Brega, a Libyan government spokesman said. The spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, says the clerics were among […] […]