Month: September 2011

A UK appeals court began hearing the first legal challenges yesterday to the lengthy prison sentences handed out following the August riots, including the convictions of two youths sentenced to four years for inciting riots […] […]

HEAVILY armed anti-Gaddafi fighters have tightened their siege of the ousted Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte, as hundreds of terrified civilians poured out of the Mediterranean coastal city. Fleeing residents today spoke of dwindling supplies […] […]

A 13-year-old girl suffocated after she was strapped down and doused with water by her father and a monk who were trying to expel an “evil spirit”, Japanese police and media reports said today. The […] […]

TWO Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city, officials said today. A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 arriving from New York and a Dragonair Airbus A330 from […] […]

THE Taliban are rejecting claims that they or any of their allies have ties to the Pakistani Government. The insurgent group said in a statement today that it had no bases in Pakistan. The claim […] […]

US police responding to a report of a small boy wandering along a road in rural Indiana today discovered the bodies of five adults at two homes nearby. A couple noticed the young boy walking […] […]

BRITISH police say they have charged six men who were arrested last week in Birmingham as part of a major counter-terrorism operation targeting Islamic extremists. Four men were charged with preparing for an act of […] […]

A BUILDING used by the CIA in Kabul has come under attack, US and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. Afghan authorities said gunfire was heard in […] […]