Month: August 2011

WASHINGTON—More than half of Muslim-Americans in a new poll say government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many report increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security, law […] […]

ROME—Mount Etna is spewing out ash and shooting spectacular bursts of lava high into the air as the eruption on the island of Sicily intensifies. Italy’s Civil Protection agency said Italy’s geophysics and volcanology institute […] […]

BEIRUT—Syrian security forces killed seven people on Tuesday as they opened fire to disperse thousands of protesters rallying against the regime on the first day of a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the […] […]

A MINNESOTA man has been charged for snapping nearly all of a 6-week-old boy’s ribs when he became angry with the baby’s mother earlier this month. According to the criminal complaint, 32-year-old Mark James Nelson […] […]

IT took extra police and earlier closing times, but London’s Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street festival, appeared to give the city what it had hoped for: a chance to regroup and celebrate in the […] […]

A US army captain gunned down his ex-wife, mother-in-law and two other people in a shooting spree during Hurricane Irene before he turned the gun on himself, a justice official says. Captain Leonard Egland, who […] […]

WIKILEAKS has published details of 23 Australians believed to have links to a radical Yemeni cleric with ties to an offshoot of terrorist group al-Qaeda. The latest tranche of Wikileaks diplomatic cables released this week […] […]

TROPICAL Storm Nanmadol is heading towards China after leaving a trail of destruction in Taiwan and killing 16 people in the Philippines. Chinese weather authorities said Nanmadol was expected to make landfall in the south-eastern […] […]