Month: September 2011

THE slow-moving remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped a torrent of rain across the South US today and whipped up tornadoes as it pushed further inland. One death was reported, and at least one person […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi is “in excellent health and planning and organising Libya’s defence”, his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said. “We are still powerful,” he told Syria’s Arrai television channel, adding the sons of the toppled dictator “had […] […]

THE Libyan rebel commander at the centre of the storm over Britain’s collusion with the Gaddafi regime accused UK intelligence agents of ignoring his claims that he was being tortured. “I have no doubt, not […] […]

A SENIOR al-Qa’ida leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on Australia, the US and Europe has been arrested in Pakistan. Younis al-Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of the southwestern city […] […]

A British inquiry into alleged complicity in the mistreatment of terror suspects will look into new claims that the spy agency MI6 was involved in rendition to Libya. Prime Minister David Cameron set up the […] […]

The Italian police official who conducted the original investigation in the Amanda Knox case defended her standards, after an independent review harshly criticized the evidence used to convict the American student of murdering her British […] […]

The University of Edinburgh’s governing body will meet tomorrow to decide the level of fees it will charge some of the students who wish to study there. Its decision is expected to leave prospective students […] […]

Powerful Typhoon Talas has left a trail of heavy rainfall and mudslides as it moved northward past Japan. At least six people have died and 20 others are missing, local media said. Evacuation orders and […] […]