Month: September 2011

Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in “Kill TV nights” designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal. Andrew Burgin from Stop the […] […]

Police and fire brigade officers were investigating a house fire that killed a mother and five of her children in England. A 16-year-old girl, who with her father escaped the blaze in north London, remains […] […]

A California students’ group has sparked a racism and sexism row over plans for a bake sale in which people are charged according to their ethnic background and gender. Campus Republicans at the University of […] […]

Two US hikers accused Iran of using them as “hostages” in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries of fellow inmates being beaten in Tehran’s Evin prison. Speaking at a […] […]

A 10-YEAR-old Brazilian boy shot his teacher in front of classmates then committed suicide by turning the gun on himself, Diario do Vale reported yesterday. Using his policeman father’s gun, David Nogueira fired twice at […] […]

SAUDI King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative country where women are subjected to many restrictions. “Starting with the next term, […] […]

JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES are facing a legal dilemma as they wrestle with how to treat victims of human trafficking when they are rescued. O’Neil Francis, crown counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers, said the National Task […] […]

Italian prosecutors urged an appeals court on Friday, local time, to uphold the murder conviction of Amanda Knox despite what they called a media campaign in support of the American student, asking the jurors to […] […]

In one of the bloodiest days of Yemen’s uprising, government troops backed by snipers and shelling attacked a square full of Yemeni protesters and battled with pro-opposition forces in the capital, killing at least 40 […] […]

THE two leaders of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have called for the immediate resumption of stalled Middle East peace talks. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both made powerful appeals to an […] […]