Month: October 2011

A Taleban suicide bomber has rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armoured Nato bus on a busy road in Kabul, killing 17 people including a dozen Americans in the deadliest strike against the […] […]

AN Israeli air strike has killed a Gaza militant just hours after Islamic Jihad vowed to observe an Egyptian-brokered truce following a day of violence that killed 10. The spike in violence, which began when […] […]

A US drone strike today killed four militants in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region, known as a hotbed of Taliban insurgents near the Afghan border. The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove […] […]

VETERAN British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England aged 84. Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewellery and boundless enthusiasm for pop music […] […]

BEIRUT—Syrian troops shelled a restive district on Saturday and conducted sweeping raids, one day after security forces killed about 40 people in one of the deadliest crackdowns in months in the country’s uprising, activists said. […] […]

The alleged head of a rogue US army unit charged with killing Afghan civilians for sport has gone on trial, with three fellow soldiers due to testify at his court martial. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs […] […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that the 16 Commonwealth countries for which Queen Elizabeth II is monarch have agreed to remove gender discrimination in the order of succession to the throne. Commonwealth national […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has called for anti-capitalist protesters to leave London’s historic St Paul’s Cathedral, saying the freedom to rally should exclude important sites. “I’m very concerned about the continuation of this protest […] […]