Month: August 2011

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son says his family has forged an alliance with Islamist rebels to drive out the secular opposition to the regime. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who along with his father had long branded the entire […] […]

CNN host Piers Morgan is under pressure to admit his apparent involvement in phone hacking after a claim by Heather Mills that a journalist from Britain’s Mirror group had confessed to intercepting her phone messages […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Police arrested three suspects in the grisly slayings of a mother and daughter whose beheadings during a home invasion last month renewed a sense of fear and outrage among crime-weary Jamaicans, officials said Tuesday. […] […]

PARIS—French authorities have agreed to extradite former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to his native Panama, his lawyer said Tuesday. Yves Leberquier said French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed the extradition on July 6 and that […] […]

POLICE investigating phone hacking and bribery at defunct British tabloid News of the World have arrested a man, believed to be a former executive at the newspaper. The Metropolitan Police said a 71-year-old man had […] […]

THE protester who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks. Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, pleaded guilty last week to assaulting the 80-year-old News Corporation chairman and chief executive as he […] […]

HAMILTON—A man believed to be the first person in Canada convicted of murder through HIV transmission has been declared a dangerous offender. The designation means Johnson Aziga could be jailed indefinitely. The Ugandan immigrant and […] […]

THE Israeli secret service Mossad was responsible for the assassination last month of an Iranian scientist in Tehran, Germany’s Spiegel Online news website reported. The killing of Dariush Rezaei-Nejad was “the first serious action taken […] […]

NEWLY released FBI documents reveal that threats against the late Senator Edward Kennedy continued long after the assassinations of his brothers. One of the alleged threats to Kennedy came ahead of a planned January, 1972 […] […]

A SAUDI court has opened the trial of the “al-Qaeda Lady”, the first woman in the kingdom accused of involvement in terrorist activities, local media reported. The specialised criminal court began the trial on Sunday […] […]