Month: May 2011

THE unsolved murder case that first convinced British MPs to drop the double jeopardy rule and allow suspects to stand trial twice over the same offence will finally go back to court for a second […] […]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will slap sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad and six senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses for their crackdown on anti-government protests, for the first time personally penalizing the […] […]

LOS ANGELES—The stories were flying around eight years ago, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the midst of his unlikely attempt to unseat Gray Davis, California’s Democratic governor: Schwarzenegger, married to Maria Shriver, had fathered a […] […]

Authorities say a woman offered a two-year-old relative for sale on eBay and accepted a man’s tongue-in-cheek bid. The Holland Sentinel says police located the 20-year-old woman in Ottawa County’s Allendale Township, west of Grand […] […]

Guards at New York City’s massive Rikers Island jail complex are taking unusual precautions to make sure IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn doesn’t come to any harm behind bars. The 62-year-old banker and diplomat has a […] […]

PAKISTANI security forces have arrested a senior al-Qaeda operative, Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub – alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki – in the southern port city of Karachi. “According to preliminary investigations, Al Makki is a […] […]

LONDON—The British government on Tuesday pledged to cut the country’s carbon emissions in half by 2025—an ambitious target which could be watered down unless other European countries cut their emissions accordingly. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne […] […]

PHILADELPHIA—Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students. The teachers work at a predominantly black school in the city’s East Falls neighborhood. […] […]