Month: June 2011

DEFIANT Saudi women got behind the wheels of their cars in response to calls for nationwide action to break a traditional ban unique to the ultra-conservative kingdom. The call to defy the ban that spread […] […]

MEXICAN police have detained an alleged Zetas drug gang member accused of coordinating the massacre of 72 migrants last August and other killings in northeast Mexico. Edgar Huerta, a former soldier, allegedly admitted to “personally […] […]

A MAN was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for allegedly attempting to carry a handgun and ammunition onto an Alaska Airlines flight bound for Santa Rosa, California. Timothy Geisen, 53, was detained overnight after […] […]

BRITAIN urges its nationals to leave Syria “now” by commercial means, warning that its embassy in Damascus would unlikely be able to help them if the situation deteriorates further. “British nationals should leave now by […] […]

Nine people were killed today when three attackers armed with suicide vests and machine-guns stormed a police station in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul. The militants, at least one of whom was in […] […]

VIDEO game developer Sega says it has been hacked, making it the latest in a string of games companies to be attacked. The company sent an email to users of the Sega Pass system yesterday […] […]

SHIPPING company UPS has been barred from moving air cargo through some UK facilities because of security deficiencies, the British government said today. The Department for Transport disclosed the action but gave no information on […] […]

A FEDERAL judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. The order was made public yesterday, more than six weeks after bin Laden was killed by […] […]

SYRIAN security forces killed at least 16 people yesterday, including a teenage boy, as thousands of people poured into the streets across the country calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime, activists […] […]