Month: May 2011

FOURTEEN mobsters from New York’s Italian-American mafia have been sentenced as part of a wide-ranging assault by the authorities on the Cosa Nostra. The 14 ranged from former Gambino crime family boss, Daniel Marino, to […] […]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Syria it will face more international pressure over its crackdown on popular protests, behaviour she called “a sign of remarkable weakness.” Speaking on the sidelines of an […] […]

NEW York undercover police have arrested two men who bought weapons in an alleged plot to unleash a bloodbath in Manhattan synagogues, city officials say. The suspects, Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, both […] […]

TRIPOLI came under air attack as Libyan rebels celebrated the captured the strategic Misrata airport, while reports said rockets had struck the compound of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. The airport of Libya’s third-largest […] […]

A GERMAN court has convicted 91-year-old John Demjanjuk of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder as a Nazi death camp guard. The Munich state court did not immediately give the reasons […] […]

YEMENI security forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration in Sanaa, killing 10 protesters and wounding 226 others, a medic said. “The total death toll from the confrontations has reached 12,” said the medic today, […] […]

BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth II became the second-longest reigning monarch in 1000 years of British history today. Her reign of 59 years and 95 days, plus 15 extra leap-year days, puts her ahead of George III, […] […]

The parents of missing UK girl Madeleine McCann have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to order a “comprehensive review” of the information surrounding their daughter’s disappearance. Kate and Gerry McCann wrote in a letter […] […]

Osama bin Laden’s family want proof that the terrorist leader is dead and an investigation into how he was killed. The United States says U.S. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden during a May 2 raid […] […]