Month: June 2011

TRIPOLI—Dead babies quicken the blood for a moribund regime, pumping oxygen back into the decaying body politic. NATO has just handed Moammar Gadhafi a lifeline. What remains to be seen is whether the alliance’s member […] […]

A BRITISH identity thief was beginning a jail sentence today after spending 22 years pretending to be a woman of a different race. The fraudster, who had been living in Britain under the name Carol […] […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Three Indonesians radicalized by the teachings of a firebrand Muslim cleric were sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for involvement in a terror plot. A Jakarta court found Muhammad Iqbal, Helmi Wardani and […] […]

DHAKA, Bangladesh—Bangladesh will retain Islam as the state religion in amendments the government is proposing to its constitution, a government minister said Tuesday. A former military ruler declared Islam the state religion in 1988 by […] […]

BELFAST—Sectarian clashes erupted on Belfast’s streets as masked Protestant rioters attacked Catholic homes Monday, Northern Ireland authorities said. More than 100 Protestant teens and young men bombarded Catholic homes with rocks, bricks and bottles. The […] […]

FORTY-four people were killed and eight badly injured when a plane crashed onto a highway and burst into flames in northern Russia, narrowly missing an inhabited area, officials said today. The RussAir Tu-134 tried to […] […]

Grief mixed with anger yesterday as protesters marked the death of Brian Haw, a campaigner who for a decade resisted police and politicians to maintain his peace camp on the doorstep of Britain’s Houses of […] […]

Police in Phoenix, Arizona are investigating a hit-and-run accident that left one man in critical condition and another dead — with his leg missing from the crash scene. Police say the two pedestrians were struck […] […]