Month: September 2011

Police are demanding that the Guardian newspaper reveal its sources for the story that reignited Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. The Guardian said London’s Metropolitan Police was seeking a court order that would force the paper to […] […]

A US couple has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter but acquitted of murder charges in the death of their 7-year-old adopted son from Russia. Russian officials were particularly interested in the verdict, as a string […] […]

THE pilot of a post-World War II plane has died after his aircraft crashed into a runway and burst into flames, the second deadly airshow crash in 24 hours. The West Virginia Air National Guard […] […]

GERMAN police are trying to crack the mystery of a teenager who appeared in Berlin claiming to have lived for five years in a forest with his now dead father. According to German media reports, […] […]

LIBYAN rebels loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) are struggling to regroup outside Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Muammar Gaddafi. There were no signs of anti-Gaddafi forces […] […]

MALAYSIAN tourists were among four killed and 110 wounded in multiple blasts in the insurgency-plagued Thai south, authorities said Saturday, amid concerns that foreigners were targeted. Three Malaysians, including a three-year-old boy, and one Thai […] […]

A SUSPECTED bomb at a hospital in the northern Indian city of Agra has injured at least three people. Police Inspector-General P K Tiwari said preliminary investigations suggested it was a crude bomb, placed under […] […]

A SUSPECTED rogue trader wept in the dock yesterday as he was charged with fraud and false accounting after losses of £1.3 billion ($A1.98 billion)at UBS, where unauthorised trading may have gone on for at […] […]

A VINTAGE World War II-era fighter plane has plunged into the grandstands during a popular annual air show, killing at least three people, injuring more than 50 spectators and creating a horrific scene strewn with […] […]

A COURT in Italy has ruled that the 70 and 57-year old parents of a toddler are “told old” and selfish to raise her. The court recommended the child be put up for adoption, Italian […] […]