Month: May 2011

A key piece of evidence that helped convict a man of first-degree murder was uncovered by police within weeks of his wife’s disappearance, prosecutors said today. North Carolina police investigators discovered a map on Bradley […] […]

The French government has ordered 14 diplomats loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country within 48 hours. A foreign ministry spokesman says the 14 “ex-diplomats” worked for Libya’s embassy before it was […] […]

PLANS by al-Qai’da to attack US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks have been uncovered in material seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. However US counterterrorism officials say […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada admitted it cannot fully defend against the threat of a nuclear device and begged the United States military to lend a hand less than a year before the 2010 Olympics, secret cables between the […] […]

LONDON—British voters were deciding Thursday whether to change how members of Parliament are elected—an issue that has split the government but didn’t appear to excite the public. Voters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were […] […]

A Mexican teen deported from Canada touched down in Toronto on a flight from El Salvador late Wednesday night, capping a dramatic four-country escape. In the process, Josette Rosenzweig Issasi, 14, outwitted the combined smarts […] […]

PAKISTAN warned the US of “disastrous consequences” if it carries out any more unauthorised raids against suspected terrorists like the one that killed Osama bin Laden. However, the government in Islamabad stopped short of labelling […] […]

AL-JAZEERA is in mourning since the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of US forces. The grieving should come as no surprise, as the most popular cable news network in the Middle East, […] […]

ITALIAN police have seized assets worth around $1.38 billion from the Polverino mafia clan based in the Naples region, including companies, land and yachts, police said today. A police operation on Tuesday netted 39 alleged […] […]