Month: May 2011

BARACK Obama today basked in the lavish royal pageantry of a state visit to Britain, given an extra dash of glamour by a brief encounter with the newlywed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Queen […] […]

KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four service members from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan’s volatile east on Monday, the coalition said in a statement, one of the worst attacks on […] […]

SANAA, Yemen—Security forces battled in the streets of the Yemeni capital with fighters from the country’s most powerful tribe, which has joined the opposition, in an eruption of violence Monday after President Ali Abdullah Saleh […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s former deputy prime minister won the right Monday to a legal review of the way London’s Metropolitan Police handled the wide-ranging phone hacking campaign mounted by a British tabloid newspaper. John Prescott—who was the […] […]

LONDON—British operations in Iraq are officially ending, more than eight years after the country joined the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Most British troops left the country in 2009, but a small naval […] […]

Iceland has closed its main airport and pilots have been warned to steer clear of areas close to an erupting volcano. Grimsvotn, which lies beneath the ice of an uninhabited glacier in southeast Iceland, began […] […]

Authorities detained a Saudi woman on Saturday after she launched a campaign against the driving ban for women in the ultraconservative kingdom. She posted a video of herself behind the wheel on Facebook and YouTube […] […]

Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday and engaged in a shootout with Afghan security forces who surrounded the compound, officials said. The attack came a day after a […] […]

If the world’s going to end, you might as well go down smiling. So says Chris McNaboe, a postgraduate student from Monterey in northern California, who has invited friends to spend this evening at his […] […]