Month: August 2011

A total of 31 members of the US special forces have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan along with seven Afghans, a statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said. “The president of […] […]

A Texas jury convicted the polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault yesterday, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages”. The […] […]

Gunmen in plain clothes are said to be randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of […] […]

AT least five people were shot dead as thousands of Syrians took to the streets to rally against President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of Ramadan in support of the protest hub of Hama, […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son was killed in a NATO airstrike, Libyan rebels said last night, after the dictator’s regime accused the alliance of targeting civilians. A spokesman for the rebels said Khamis Gaddafi, commander of an […] […]

THE British phone-hacking saga deepened as it was revealed that the assistant editor of The Guardian – the newspaper that originally uncovered the scandal – admitted hacking into telephone messages and getting a “thrill” from […] […]

PORTLAND, ORE.—The U.S. Labor Department has fined three Washington state strawberry farms a total of $73,000 for employing children as young as 6 years old as pickers. The department’s Portland, Ore., office says Thursday the […] […]

A JUDGE is allowing an army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the US military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally for damages. The veteran’s identity is […] […]