Month: July 2011

VANCOUVER—An alarming rise in sudden infant deaths in British Columbia over the last six months has puzzled health officials and left them struggling to find answers. From Jan. 1 to June 28, B.C. Coroners’ Service […] […]

LONDON—A British inquiry will investigate CIA prisoner transfer practices as part of a probe into claims that terrorism suspects were tortured after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, officials confirmed Wednesday. The three-member panel, commissioned […] […]

BERLIN—The European Court of Human Rights says it has dismissed a lawsuit by Greek relatives of Nazi massacre victims seeking compensation from Germany. The Strasbourg court said in a statement Wednesday that the case was […] […]

HAVANA—Cuban prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison term for a French businessman accused of laundering drug money, state television reported late Tuesday. A verdict in the trial of Jean-Louis Autret is expected “in the coming […] […]

Casey Anthony was yesterday found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter three years ago in a case that captivated the US as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was […] […]

HUNDREDS of people torched police cars and tried to storm government buildings in the Egyptian city of Suez today after a court confirmed the bail of police accused of murdering protesters. Witnesses said angry people […] […]

THE US government has warned airlines that some terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives into humans to carry out attacks, The Associated Press has learned. There is no intelligence pointing to a specific plot, but […] […]

THE alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also plotted to attack Saudi state oil giant Aramco, the kingdom’s attorney general said at a hearing in the trial of al-Qaeda suspects. Mohammed and […] […]

BAGHDAD and Tehran pledged yesterday to strengthen ties and put the past behind them, even as Washington accuses Iran of supplying new and more lethal weapons to anti-US militias. Iran and Iraq, which fought a […] […]

A MURDER mystery dating back to 1879 was finally resolved when a skull unearthed in BBC legend David Attenborough’s garden was formally recognised as that of a woman murdered by her maid 132 years ago. […] […]