Month: July 2011

A COMPUTER hacking group yesterday posted a new batch of personal details about Arizona law enforcement officers, marking a third attack on the state’s police and an escalation of a spree of cyber break-ins. AntiSec, […] […]

US wars launched since the attacks of September 11, 2001, have left 225,000 dead and cost up to $US4.4 trillion ($4.12 trillion), according to a new study by university researchers. The study published by Brown […] […]

LEBANON is poised for a new round of violence after arrest warrants were issued for four key figures from Hezbollah over the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Saad Hariri, the son of Rafik […] […]

The United States Government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory yesterday as a bushfire burned at its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiments on hold for days. Lab […] […]

A Nigerian man without a passport and clutching another traveler’s expired boarding pass made it through a New York airport federal security checkpoint and boarded a Virgin America jetliner to Los Angeles International Airport, authorities […] […]

Hundreds of thousands of British teachers and public sector workers have swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines overnight. Unions hope the protest will be the first salvo in a summer of discontent against the […] […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said Wednesday that two journalists were among those arrested. […] […]

RABAT, Morocco—Seven people have gone on trial in Morocco accused of involvement in a bombing in a Marrakech tourist cafe that killed 17. The April attack was one of the worst terrorist acts to hit […] […]

SYRIAN troops have swept into new villages in the north-west as the second city Aleppo saw anti-regime protests and as pro-democracy dissidents joined ranks at home and abroad, activists said. About 60 tanks and armoured […] […]

A BABY boom in the Republic of Ireland has seen the population soar to a level not seen in about 160 years. Preliminary figures published by the Central Statistics Office yesterday show Ireland has a […] […]