Month: July 2011

AN UNIDENTIFIED gunmen opened fire on a bus stand in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing seven Shi’ite pilgrims waiting to travel to neighbouring Iran, police said. The attack was the latest violence in the province of […] […]

THE former hotel maid whose name is now known throughout the world stood on a small square platform in the lobby of a vast evangelical church, surrounded by men: her lawyer, church reverends, prominent black […] […]

THE head of the Libyan rebel’s armed forces and two of his aides have been killed by gunmen, the head of the rebel leadership said. The death of Abdel-Fattah Younis was announced at a press […] […]

On an island strewn with the corpses of his victims, Anders Behring Breivik ended his killing spree the moment police approached him, authorities say, handing himself over with his hands raised high above his head. […] […]

The United States issued a worldwide warning that Al-Qaeda was plotting strikes in many regions, and urging its nationals to maintain a “high level of vigilance.” The State Department anticipates “enhanced potential for anti-American violence […] […]

A COUPLE have lodged a legal challenge to a new immigration rule that the husband cannot join his spouse of 37 years in England unless he can speak English. In a test judicial review in […] […]

GERMAN investigators today found the mysterious deaths of a family of six in Berlin were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty spa. Investigators told the German newspaper Bild that autopsies of the victims […] […]