Month: August 2011

A FAMILY argument in the US state of Ohio ended in the shooting deaths of eight people, including an 11-year-old, and the wounding of two more people. One person shot five people dead in one […] […]

THOUSANDS of extra police officers were deployed across London on a second night of violence as fresh questions arose about the shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death led to the rioting in North London on […] […]

REGGAE star Buju Banton is now being transferred from the Pinellas County Jail in Florida to a correctional facility in Mississippi to begin serving his 10-year sentence. Banton will be taken to the Adams County […] […]

Horrified residents surveyed the damage to their community after a night of rioting and looting following the fatal shooting of a local man by police. Eight police officers are being treated in hospital after trouble […] […]

MONTERREY, Mexico—The dismembered bodies of four young men were dumped near a high school and five young men were found dead near a middle school in two separate incidents in northern Mexico, officials said Saturday. […] […]

KABUL — Their name conjures up the most celebrated moment of America’s post-Sept. 11 military campaigns. Now the Navy SEALs belong to a grimmer chapter in history: the most deadly incident for U.S. forces in […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Police say a bomb attack in Pakistan has destroyed 16 tankers carrying fuel for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. Police officer Shafi Ullah Khan says the attack took place Saturday at a terminal close to […] […]

LONDON—One police officer was hospitalized and seven others were injured during riots in the deprived Tottenham area of London, police said Sunday, after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and […] […]

A BRITISH teenager who dreamed of becoming a doctor has been mauled to death by a polar bear, and four other members of his Norwegian Arctic expedition have been injured, officials and organisers say. The […] […]

RIOTERS have gone on the rampage in north London, torching police cars, a bus and a shop amid widespread looting following a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers. The patrol […] […]