Month: July 2011

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron last night called for an emergency session of parliament to brief MPs on the spreading phone hacking scandal. The call from Mr Cameron in Pretoria to extend the House of […] […]

THE biggest police force in Europe was last night without a leader and Britain without its most senior counter-terrorism officer after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson was followed out the door by Assistant Commissioner John […] […]

GENERAL David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan and most celebrated military leader of his generation, has stepped down today after a chequered year at the helm of what is America’s longest war. At a […] […]

A TEAM of Taliban attackers has murdered a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a raid on his Kabul home, along with a visiting lawmaker, government and police officials have said. Jan Mohammad […] […]

A VOLATILE volcano in central Indonesia has erupted again, spewing ash almost 600m into the air. Monitoring official Farid Ruskanda says Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island erupted twice within a half-hour this afternoon. The 1580m […] […]

THE British task force sent into Afghanistan’s Helmand province in 2006 was badly equipped, undermanned and not strong enough to take on the Taliban, a scathing government report has concluded. In the Operations in Afghanistan […] […]

The phone hacking scandal has claimed its most high profile scalp yet, with the resignation of Britain’s most senior police officer. Paul Stephenson’s resignation came just hours after the arrest of Rebekah Brooks – Rupert […] […]

A SCARE in Japan over beef contaminated with radioactivity spread on Sunday with more parts of the country reporting tainted food, four months after March’s quake and tsunami triggered a nuclear disaster. So far, meat […] […]