Month: June 2011

GUNMEN have killed five members of a family, including two young children, in the drug cartel-plagued state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. State Attorney’s General’s Office spokesman Carlos Gonzalez says the unidentified gunmen took the […] […]

Feminist writer Germaine Greer was under pressure to apologise after she suggested that British troops might take part in rapes if they are sent into Libya. Greer was speaking during a BBC discussion about allegations […] […]

David Miliband is “waiting for his brother Ed to fail” as British Labour leader and is “poised” to make another bid for the job, friends of the former Foreign Secretary revealed. Ed Miliband, who pipped […] […]

Hikmat was one of the few remaining residents in Jisr al-Shughour when the Syrian army rolled in, firing wildly and at will. “They didn’t care what they were shooting at,” said the 39-year-old, who was […] […]

SYRIAN troops today fought violent battles with “armed gangs” in flashpoint Jisr Al-Shughur town as international outrage mounted at Syria’s brutal crackdown on protesters, state television reported. “Army divisions entered Jisr al-Shughur and purged the […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghan officials say Pakistan has agreed in principle to target and eliminate the hideouts of Taliban fighters and other insurgents who refuse to take part in hoped-for peace talks. Presidential spokesman Waheed Omar offered […] […]

BEIJING—More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday. China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with […] […]

Al Qaeda did not die with Osama bin Laden. But as the Arab Spring takes the global imagination elsewhere, the residual threat of jihadism is growing increasingly irrelevant, an international security summit in London was […] […]

THOUSANDS of women have taken part in a so-called freedom walk in London, insisting they should be able to wear as much or as little as they like without facing sexual harassment by men. The […] […]

TWIN bomb blasts minutes apart have ripped through a crowded supermarket complex killing 35 people and injuring more than 80 in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar. The attack, one of the deadliest since US Navy […] […]