Month: June 2011

A TECHNICIAN who sexually assaulted, strangled, then stuffed the body of a promising young Yale University student into a laboratory wall was sentenced to 44 years in prison in the US today. Raymond Clark III […] […]

TRIBUTES poured in today for South African anti-apartheid activist Albertina Sisulu, who died last night at the age of 92, one of the last contemporaries of Nelson Mandela. Sisulu and her late husband, African National […] […]

BAHRAINI police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters marching toward the landmark Pearl Square in the country’s capital, eyewitnesses say, just two days after authorities lifted emergency rule in the Gulf kingdom. […] […]

KRAFT Foods-owned UK chocolate maker Cadbury apologised yesterday to supermodel Naomi Campbell after she claimed that one of its advertising campaigns was racist. Campbell – famed for her diva-like tendencies – suggested last week that […] […]

FORMER Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has been indicted on felony charges linked to his alleged use of illegal campaign contributions to cover up an extramarital affair. Edwards, 58, faces a six-count indictment “for allegedly […] […]

THOUSANDS of residents were fleeing the Yemeni capital tonight as deadly clashes between dissident tribesmen and loyalist troops raged for a fourth day, leaving bodies littering the streets. Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh was […] […]

RATKO Mladic made his first appearance before a UN court in The Hague today, after 16 years on the run from genocide and war crimes charges. The wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, dubbed the “Butcher […] […]

FIVE people have been killed in Yuma, Arizona, in a multiple shooting incident which triggered a temporary school lockdown. US authorities have identified the man suspected of fatally shooting five people and wounding one other […] […]

AN Argentine court charged three former police officers today with killing five women during the country’s 1976-1983 “dirty war” by throwing them out of an airplane while still alive. Judge Sergio Torres ordered the three […] […]