Month: August 2011

AT least eight people were killed as a wave of suicide explosions rocked a British cultural centre in Kabul on Friday, a public holiday marking Afghanistan’s independence from Britain in 1919. Five blasts, claimed by […] […]

DISASTER-weary Japan was rattled by another strong quake Friday, which measured at a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, triggered a tsunami warning and sent people diving for cover. The quake struck the Pacific seabed not far […] […]

EIGHT Israelis have been killed in a string of attacks in southern Israel, prompting the military to hit back with strikes on the Gaza militant group it said was responsible. Thursday’s bloodshed, which killed six […] […]

US President Barack Obama has slapped tough new sanctions on Syria in an executive order that freezes all Syrian government assets and forbids investment and exports to the country. The order also targets Syria’s oil […] […]

SEVEN prisoners have died and 37 others have been wounded in a shootout between inmates at Venezuela’s Cabimas Prison. “We are dealing with seven deaths and three critically injured who we fear may also die,” […] […]

A POLICEWOMAN’S dad said he felt ashamed after another of his daughters was charged with looting during the recent London riots. Bar owner Dan Foley, 48, suffered a sleepless night as cop Lisa Foley, 28, […] […]

A jihadist has called on Muslims to murder David Letterman, saying the US talk show host deserved to have his tongue cut out after he joked about an al-Qa’ida leader killed in Pakistan, a US […] […]

WOMEN and children were among casualties as twin blasts rocked Afghanistan today, killing 24 people. In the first attack a roadside bomb tore through a minibus in western Afghanistan, killing 22 civilians, the government said. […] […]

The allegations that Andy Coulson ordered his executives at the News of the World to stop openly discussing phone hacking and that he promised Clive Goodman his job back as long as he did not […] […]

British police foiled a planned attack by rioters on the site of the 2012 Olympics in London after they intercepted BlackBerry and Twitter messages about the plot, a top officer said. Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner […] […]