Month: August 2011

LONDON—Scottish officials overseeing the parole of a Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing said Monday they want to contact him now that the fighting between Libyan forces and rebels has reached Tripoli. Abdel Baset […] […]

Tourists and Washingtonians got their first up-close look at the memorial to the U.S.civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The site opened to kick off a week of celebrations ahead of Sunday’s official […] […]

THE first person to be extradited to Britain from Bahrain is facing a life sentence for murdering a woman whose body was dumped in a suitcase at Heathrow airport. Youseff Wahid, 42, a former air […] […]

THE sound of heavy fighting can be heard near the residence in central Tripoli of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after rebel forces the previous day surged into the capital, taking over many districts. Fighting […] […]

PASSENGERS at London’s Luton Airport were being held outside the terminal today amid reports of armed police and emergency vehicles at the scene following a security alert. The airport was later given the all-clear. The […] […]

A 70-year-old man was the oldest person to be arrested in connection with recent rioting, it has emerged. Scotland Yard said the unnamed man, arrested on August 8 in connection with theft from a shop […] […]

ISRAELI troops arrested 120 Hamas members in the southern West Bank yesterday just hours after the faction’s Gaza branch fired rockets into Israel. Palestinian security sources said troops fanned out across the southern West Bank […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam, for whom the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is in detention. “I have received confidential information stating he has been arrested,” ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo […] […]

KOLKATA, India—Dozens of people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced in India’s West Bengal state due to heavy rains that have overwhelmed rivers and flooded 15 districts. The state government says at […] […]