Month: August 2011

THE toll as Hurricane Irene lashed the eastern US has risen to at least eight, including an 11-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, emergency officials said today. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the hurricane […] […]

AT least two people have died in North Carolina as Hurricane Irene battered the east coast, US officials said. One man died of a heart attack while boarding up his windows, while another crashed his […] […]

TWIN roadside bomb blasts in east Baghdad killed five policemen and wounded seven other people, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. The explosions targeted a police patrol in the Ghadeer neighbourhood, the official said, on […] […]

Dozens of flights to and from Toronto have been cancelled as Hurricane Irene pounds the east coast of the United States. Pearson International Airport says more than 80 flights arriving in and departing from northeastern […] […]

WASHINGTON—Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat, U.S. officials said Saturday. The […] […]

WASHINGTON—One of the accused killers in the murders of a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and another man in Juarez, Mexico, has been extradited to the United States to stand trial, the Justice Department announced […] […]

Authorities say five people were killed in an explosion during an experiment at a chemical company in southeastern South Korea. An official at Gyeongbuk provincial fire service headquarters said Saturday the explosion took place at […] […]

LONDON—British army bomb disposal experts were called into the historic cathedral city of Canterbury on Friday night to help investigate two incidents, including a fake bomb found on a railway line during rush hour, officials […] […]

SEVEN people, including a baby boy, were killed and several others were reportedly missing after a ferry sank off eastern Indonesia. The ferry sank 24km from Kolaka in Southeast Sulawesi province, port chief Zainuddin said, […] […]

JAPAN’S nuclear agency says the amount of radioactive cesium leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the […] […]