Month: July 2011

RUPERT Murdoch last night bowed to pressure from a united British political establishment and withdrew his cherished pound stg. 8 billion bid to buy the UK’s top commercial broadcaster BSkyB. In one of his biggest […] […]

BAGHDAD: The US has been forced back into combat in Iraq five months before the remaining 46,000 American troops were due to leave.. Instead of a calm countdown to December 31, when the US “trainers […] […]

ACCUSED Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke will have to wait a while to know whether the damning wiretap information against him will be thrown out or allowed to remain as part of the evidence […] […]

FORMER Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was ordered today to return to Mexico to stand trial on charges he murdered his wife. Monica Beresford-Redman was found dead in a septic tank at a resort in Cancun, […] […]

WIKILEAKS crusader Julian Assange appeared at Britain’s High Court last night with a fresh legal team to appeal an extradition order to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning about alleged sex crimes against two […] […]

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN—Wanted dead but preferred alive: That was Ahmad Wali Karzai to the West. Odious ally yet crucial crony, a man who could get things done, schooled in the murky political machinations of Afghanistan, power-broker […] […]

EGYPT’S military has detained four US nationals after they took photographs in a restricted zone by the Suez Canal, a military official says. “Three US nationals and their translator, a US-Egyptian dual citizen, were detained […] […]

AT least seven police officers have been injured in rioting in several parts of Belfast. The trouble started shortly before tonight after police removed flags of pro-British paramilitary groups flying ahead of the July 12 […] […]

MASKED gunmen blew up a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in an attack today. Officials said the attack was carried out by at least four assailants. The terminal is […] […]