Month: August 2011

SYRIAN security forces carried out arrests and set fire to homes overnight, activists reported, at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan during which a rights group said 473 people were killed. The […] […]

A SUICIDE car bomb has killed at least 11 people and wounded 22 others celebrating Eid in a Shi’ite Muslim area of the restive southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police say. The bomb exploded today […] […]

TRIPLE suicide strikes in Chechnya have left nine people dead, mainly police officers, and more than 20 injured as the Russian Muslim region feted the end of Ramadan, officials say. Three suicide bombers blew themselves […] […]

Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested in front of the White House along with other environmental protesters who oppose a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast. The sit-in on Tuesday involved […] […]

Many parents could be better off staying at home as the cost of childcare is making it too expensive to remain working, research has claimed. Some working mothers could be financially worse off by almost […] […]

A murder investigation is under way after a man was gunned down in the street. The 25-year-old victim, who has not been formally identified, was found by police in Brayfield Road, Liverpool, at around 10.10pm […] […]

Consumer confidence in the UK has slipped to levels normally associated with a recession, raising further concern over the UK’s economic recovery. The reading published by GfK NOP dropped for the third month in a […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week from his home in Haiti’s capital was freed Tuesday after police surrounded his captors’ hideout, a Haitian police official said. Frank Jean-Baptiste was rescued by a […] […]

BRUSSELS—A human rights group said Tuesday it believed that at least 88 people, ten of them children, have died in detention in Syria during five months of anti-government protests—a dramatic increase that coincides with the […] […]

NEW YORK—A ban on religious and other head coverings on rides at a suburban amusement park on Tuesday sparked scuffles leading to 15 arrests. Rye Playland, just north of New York City, was crowded with […] […]