Month: August 2011

MORE than two weeks after the end of riots in London and other English cities, Britain’s government and police have met social media executives to discuss how to prevent their services from being used to […] […]

WANTED dead or alive – a bounty of $US 1.5 million has been put on the head of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Libya’s rebels yesterday offered the reward because the tracking down of Gaddafi remains one […] […]

Andy Coulson faces the prospect of another public grilling by MPs if the police do not charge him with illegal phone hacking. Members of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee are furious about the […] […]

DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn’s struggles with New York City justice may have ended, but his accuser’s battle may just be beginning, the New York Post reported today. Hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo could be on the hook for […] […]

A US woman has been convicted of harm after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a calculated move to get on a TV […] […]

AMY Winehouse had no illegal drugs in her system when she died, and it is still unclear what killed the singer, her family says. The family said in a statement that toxicology tests showed “alcohol […] […]

ONE of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast of the United States shook buildings and rattled nerves on Tuesday and forced the evacuations of parts of the Capitol, White House and Pentagon. […] […]

REBELS in Libya have seized the heavily fortified compound of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after a gunfight in Tripoli which raged for hours. But in a bizarre element in a day of high drama, the whereabouts […] […]