Month: July 2011

NEARLY 200 people have drowned when a boat carrying illegal migrants from Sudan to Saudi Arabia caught fire after four hours at sea, Sudanese officials said. “One hundred and ninety seven people from neighbouring countries […] […]

BRITAIN’S top-selling Sunday tabloid has vowed to take the “strongest possible action” if it is proven that its journalists hacked the phone of a missing teenager who was later found murdered. British Prime Minister David […] […]

SHELLING by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi killed 11 people and wounded another 57, almost all civilians, in the western rebel enclave of Misrata, insurgents said. Earlier, the sources said five rebels were […] […]

LOVE had nothing to do with it when residents of a London neighbourhood joined forces to have a woman evicted for her repeated night-long Tina Turner karaoke sessions. Sleep-deprived residents of Riverside Gardens at Hammersmith […] […]

THE European Food Safety Agency today identified a batch of fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt as the likely suspect in recent E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France. The EFSA task force set up to […] […]

A BRITISH soldier who disappeared and was found dead in southern Afghanistan drowned after going for a swim in a stream near his military post, an Afghan commander has said. The soldier’s mysterious death in […] […]

TWIN suicide attacks ripped through the city of Taji north of Baghdad, killing at least 35 people, officials said, after Iraq suffered its deadliest month so far this year in June. “Thirty-five people were killed […] […]

PARIS—The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is warning the Western powers currently bombarding his country that they could become a target if they continue to support the forces trying to oust his father. In […] […]

A lawyer for the family of a murdered British girl accused The News of the World tabloid of hacking into her cell phone after she went missing. The new claims added to a widening scandal […] […]