Month: May 2011

Federal officials insist that screeners at Kansas City International Airport were just doing their jobs when they frisked a baby, an incident that gained worldwide attention after a pastor posted a mobile phone picture of […] […]

IF you get a letter from Britain’s 10 Downing Street, don’t bother with a personalised response. The person who signed it probably used a fake name. For years, staff at the British prime minister’s office […] […]

COPENHAGEN, – Denmark on Wednesday joined an increasing number of European countries seeking tighter border controls, saying it will install permanent stations along its frontiers to curb crime and illegal immigration. Finance Minister Claus Hjort […] […]

LONDON—British authorities say the country’s police and military carried out a three-day drill to simulate a terrorist attack on next summer’s Olympic Games in London. London police say that the exercise was held inside the […] […]

PARIS—Tunisia’s government says that 58 bodies were discovered in April on the country’s Mediterranean beaches, likely migrants headed to Europe in small boats that sank. The official TAP news agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement […] […]

ABOUT 100 Taliban fighters on motorcycles attacked a northern Afghan village working to join the government-sponsored local police program against the insurgency, killing a villager and 17 militants. The evening attack sparked a gunfight that […] […]

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 per cent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated […] […]

THE sons of Osama bin Laden have broken their silence, by denouncing his “arbitrary killing” and burial at sea as the United States sought to question the al-Qa’ida leader’s widows. In a statement given to […] […]