Month: August 2011

CHOCOHOLICS are rejoicing but medical experts are at war after new research showed eating chocolate could reduce the risk of heart disease by more than one-third. The news that the fat and calorie-laden treat may […] […]

SANAA, Yemen—Military officials say 26 al-Qaida militants and 10 soldiers, including a colonel, have been killed in fierce fighting in southern Yemen. The officials said Monday that 38 militants and 30 soldiers also were injured […] […]

LONDON—The Lockerbie bomber is believed to still be in Tripoli where he is dying of prostate cancer, Scotland’s government said Monday, citing parole officials who had contact with the man’s family. That statement came as […] […]

LONDON—British police say they are using tough powers at London’s Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street festival, in the wake of riots across England earlier this month. London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it had […] […]

EIGHT children were hurt when a staff member went on a stabbing spree at a day-care centre for migrant workers’ children in Shanghai. The female worker used a box cutter to slash at children aged […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber has blown himself up in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack blamed on al-Qaeda, taking the death toll from nationwide violence to […] […]

SURVIVORS of a massacre in which at least 55 Libyan prisoners were herded into a barn, machine-gunned and set alight by regime loyalists have described how one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons visited the site […] […]

The English Defence League’s plan to march through the capital next month was blocked by the Home Secretary today. Theresa May banned all marches in Tower Hamlets, east London, and four neighbouring boroughs in the […] […]