Month: June 2011

A COASTAL British township has banned offensive items including T-shirts with dirty slogans in a bid to cut down on anti-social behaviour. Newquay, a popular seaside destination southwest of London, has introduced the ban ahead […] […]

A BRITISH snake breeder was killed by a bite from one of his king cobras – days after he boasted they would not harm him, The Sun reported today. Luke Yeomans, 45, suffered a heart […] […]

THE CIA has been ordered out of a desert airbase in Pakistan from where it launched deadly Predator drone strikes against al-Qa’ida. The Shamsi base in Baluchistan has been at the forefront of the US’s […] […]

PAKISTANI troops backed by jets and helicopter gunships have killed 40 militants in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan in the past three days, a military commander said. Brigadier Aftab Ahmad said his forces had […] […]

A SENIOR commander in the al-Qa’ida-linked Haqqani network wanted over this week’s deadly attack on a leading hotel in the Afghan capital has been killed in an air strike, NATO says. The International Security Assistance […] […]

JAPAN today recommended 113 households should evacuate from four districts considered radiation “hot spots” near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said. The voluntary guidance, for areas where higher levels of radiation have been […] […]

HANOI, Vietnam—Three women in southern Vietnam have been sentenced to prison for trafficking women to China. Presiding Judge Nguyen Van Tong says 29-year-old Nguyen Thi Thuy was convicted Wednesday of selling six women and sentenced […] […]

WASHINGTON—A key jihadist Internet forum has been knocked off the Internet, and counterterrorism experts say it appears it was hacked. Cybersecurity analysts say the al-Shamukh forum appears to have been taken down by a fairly […] […]

A US woman accused of killing her baby in a microwave oven has been arraigned on murder charges that could lead to the death penalty if she is convicted. Prosecutors today charged Ka Yang, 29, […] […]

SIX people have been detained in Moldova for smuggling an unspecified amount of the form of uranium that can be used to make a nuclear weapon, an official says. Interior Ministry official Vitalie Briceag said […] […]