Month: June 2011

BEAN sprouts from the German state of Lower-Saxony are suspected of being the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak which has killed 22 people, the region’s agriculture ministry says. There was no definite proof […] […]

HONG KONG—Tens of thousands of people organizers say 150,000 turned out for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on Saturday to remember those who died in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, and to demand the […] […]

A new strain of MRSA has been discovered in British milk. The superbug, resistant to antibiotics, has been isolated from samples of milk taken from farms around the country and has also infected humans. It […] […]

Schools have pulled raw vegetables from menus, piles of cucumbers sit untouched on shop shelves, and farmers say they’re losing millions. As scientists scramble to find the source of an E. coli outbreak linked to […] […]

Last seen as a swaggering general in the Bosnia war, Ratko Mladic needed help rising from his chair for war-crimes judges, his limp right hand too weak to put on earphones without assistance. But his […] […]

A suicide bomber attacked a mosque filled with Iraqi politicians and policemen on Friday and another blew himself up inside the hospital where the wounded were taken, killing a total of 21 people in Saddam […] […]

LIBYAN rebels have forced government troops from three western towns and broken the siege on another, a rebel commander said as NATO pounded 10 targets across the country. Friday’s heavy bombing and rebel victories, plus […] […]

SAUDI activists have written an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a champion of women’s rights around the world, urging her to publicly press Saudi Arabia to let women drive. The letter […] […]

NATO announced today it had for the first time used attack helicopters in Libya, striking military vehicles, military equipment and forces backing embattled leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. “Attack helicopters under NATO command were used for […] […]