Month: June 2011

CUBA has published the diary that revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara kept during the guerrilla campaign that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. “Diary of a Combatant” recounts Che’s experience from the landing on […] […]

Jamaican reggae artiste, Buju Banton, has file court papers in Florida, asking for a shorter prison sentence in that jurisdiction. The Grammy Award winner artiste was convicted in February of conspiring to set up a […] […]

The Half Way Tree police have listed Rodney Price popularly known as ‘Bounty Killer’ and David Brooks also known as ‘Mavado’ as persons of interest. They are being asked to report to the Half Way […] […]

THE Israeli grandfather and French mother of a four-year-old French girl were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for having murdered the child, public radio reported. A court in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva, […] […]

THE death toll from a killer bacteria outbreak rose to 36 yesterday, German health officials said, one day after warning that more fatalities cannot be ruled out. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany’s national disease […] […]

A MILITANT blew himself up in a bank in Islamabad today – the first suicide attack in the Pakistani capital for nearly two years. The attack comes with Pakistan on edge weeks after US Navy […] […]

NATO says two of its service members have been killed in insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan. The alliance says both deaths occurred yesterday. The international coalition released no other details about the attacks and didn’t […] […]

THE international online vigilante group Anonymous took revenge for the arrest of three of its hackers by blocking the website of the Spanish police, officials said today. “During the night of Saturday to Sunday at […] […]

THE US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missile technology to Burma and after dramatic stand-off forced it to turn back. Pyongyang was forced to recall the ship home after last month’s […] […]

FOUR decades after the Pentagon Papers began appearing in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press, the once top-secret study of the Vietnam War is being released. The Lyndon […] […]