Month: June 2011

Four people were shot to death at a pharmacy on New York’s Long Island in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong. The gunfire erupted at about 10:20 a.m. inside Haven Drugs, a […] […]

THREE people appeared in a British court accused of trying to blackmail Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen for $7656.38. Lee Platt, 28, Jennifer Green, 25, and Steven Malcolm, 42, […] […]

9-year-old Pakistani girl captured by militants, forced to wear suicide vest.   TIMERGARAH, PAKISTAN — Police said Monday that militants kidnapped a 9-year-old girl on her way to school and forced her to wear a […] […]

A LONDON policeman accused of killing a man at the G20 protests in 2009 is due to face court on Monday. Constable Simon Harwood will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with the […] […]

NATO says it regrets its first civilian casualties in Libya and its second misfire in 24 hours, as strains emerged within the alliance and rebel forces failed to make progress on the ground. In a […] […]

US defence secretary Robert Gates has confirmed that US officials are involved in preliminary talks with the Taliban to seek a political solution to the Afghan war but said he didn’t expect significant progress for […] […]

BBC journalism was plunged into one of its deepest crises since the Hutton Report of 2004 yesterday, when the governing BBC Trust questioned the authenticity of footage broadcast by its flagship programme Panorama in an […] […]

A Florida woman has pleaded no contest to a scheme to sell her infant grandson. Patty Bigbee admitted selling a child and communications fraud. She faces up to 10 years in prison at her August […] […]

UN envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to Turkey’s border with Syria, sharing fruit and desserts with some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their Government’s bloody crackdown. The goodwill ambassador arrived on a […] […]