Month: May 2011

SYRIAN security forces have shot dead at least 34 people, including a child, as pro-democracy protests swept the country, with demonstrators pressing on with calls for more freedom in defiance of a fierce crackdown, activists […] […]

AN assailant has sprayed a Roman Catholic priest with flammable liquid and set him alight during mass in a church in Lithuania, police in the Baltic state say. Father Remigijus Kuprys, 46, managed to extinguish […] […]

AN end to the agony of back pain may be in sight after British scientists invented a new gel that could fix the cause of the problem without the need for surgery, the Daily Mail […] […]

A MOTHER’S story that she injected her 8-year-old daughter with Botox is once again raising eyebrows after reports surfaced that she made the whole thing up for money. Sheena Upton told ABC’s Good Morning America […] […]

THE Taliban has bombed a US consulate convoy in Peshawar, killing one person and wounding 11 others in the first attack on Americans in Pakistan since Osama bin Laden’s death. A US embassy spokesman said […] […]

Scores of reporters and photographers swarmed on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in the middle of California farm country today in search of a former domestic employee of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The revelation that Schwarzenegger has an […] […]

The maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault will testify against him, rejecting any notion that she willingly had sex in a New York hotel, her lawyer said. “There is nothing consensual […] […]

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may be dead, but his final message has still been delivered to the Arab world. He praised Arab revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia in a posthumous audio message and […] […]

LIBYA freed four arrested journalists – two Americans, a Briton and a Spaniard who arrived at the capital’s Rixos Hotel. American James Foley of GlobalPost, an online news agency, and freelance writer Clare Morgana Gillis, […] […]

RUSSIA has expelled Israel’s military attache at its Moscow embassy on spying allegations, Israeli defence officials said overnight, dismissing the charges as unfounded. The officials said Air Force Colonel Vadim Leiderman returned to Israel several […] […]