Month: September 2011

TWIN Taliban bombs targeting security forces responsible for the recent capture of senior al-Qaeda operatives have killed 24 people and wounded 82 others in southwest Pakistan, police say. One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside […] […]

INDIA’S Dalit queen Mayawati has demanded the Australian government commit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to a “mental asylum” after leaked US cables revealed the politician sent an empty jet to Mumbai to pick up a […] […]

SOMALI pirates have released seven Danes, including a family of five, who were taken hostage in February, Denmark’s foreign ministry has announced. “The seven Danes have been released and brought to safety,” the ministry said […] […]

AN Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for a powerful blast outside New Delhi’s High Court that killed at least 11 people and wounded 65 yesterday as close to 200 petitioners queued outside the gates […] […]

A gunman opened fire at a Nevada restaurant, killing three people and wounding nine others, many of them members of the National Guard, before turning the gun on himself. Witnesses called the emergency services shortly […] […]

James Murdoch was told in 2008 about an email that showed phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid was more widespread than his company claimed, the paper’s ex-legal manager has said. The […] […]

SOUTH Africa plans to ban alcohol advertising in a bid to rein in violence fuelled by excessive drinking, the health minister says. With one of the world’s highest crime rates, the country attracts foreign experts […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s nuclear chief on Monday proposed to allow the U.N. nuclear watchdog “full supervision” of its nuclear activities for five years provided that sanctions against Tehran are lifted, but the official did not give […] […]