Month: August 2011

A CHINESE court has sentenced two Tibetan Buddhist monks to prison for assisting in the death of a 16-year-old colleague who set himself on fire. The official Xinhua News Agency says Tsering Tenzin was sentenced […] […]

TEXAS Governor Rick Perry has slammed a court ruling that invalidated parts of a law he signed that would force doctors to conduct an ultrasound for women seeking an abortion. “This important sonogram legislation ensures […] […]

THE Wikileaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed during an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy website says it’s fending off a cyberattack after being lambasted for releasing more supposedly confidential US diplomatic cables. […] […]

AFGHAN Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed talks between the insurgency and the US, and laid out a manifesto for a Taliban government that protects private business, exploits the country’s mineral wealth and maintains […] […]

AUGUST has become the deadliest month yet for US forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later. The 66 US service […] […]

A BRITISH minister accidentally revealed a sensitive government document on Afghanistan on Tuesday which says London should welcome President Hamid Karzai’s departure in 2014. International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell inadvertently left the documents on display […] […]

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges, a prison official said Monday. The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of […] […]

The family of an 8-year-old New York City boy who was abducted, killed and dismembered has sued the suspect in his death and the suspect’s father for $100 million each. Leiby Kletzky went missing July […] […]