Month: October 2011

Amanda Knox has finally arrived in America after spending four years imprisoned in Italy. A day after being acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and freed from an Italian jail, Knox has […] […]

PROSECUTORS in southern California will argue that a former model who killed her husband and ate parts of his body is still a threat and should not be released from prison Omaima Nelson – a […] […]

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has said the South African government was worse than its apartheid predecessor and warned he would pray for its downfall after it dithered over a visa for the Dalai Lama. Anti-apartheid crusader […] […]

RUSSIA and China today vetoed a UN Security Council resolution, drawn up by European nations, threatening action if Syria’s leader does not end a deadly crackdown on a pro-democracy movement. Nine countries voted for the […] […]

A CAR bomb has torn through a government compound in Mogadishu, killing more than 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia’s Shebab rebels in their five-year insurgency. Witnesses described the carnage as the worst […] […]

THE Lockerbie bomber has used his first interview in two years to claim that his role in the atrocity was exaggerated, to distance himself from the Gaddafi regime and to ask that he should be […] […]

THE US Supreme Court has slapped down a new bid seeking to show that Barack Obama was ineligible to be elected president of the United States in the 2008 White House race. The nation’s highest […] […]

US student Amanda Knox has been acquitted of murder and sexual assault by an Italian court after breaking down in court and pleading for mercy in a dramatic end to her four-year legal battle. She […] […]

AMANDA Knox has rejected the “completely unjust” accusations in her murder appeal trial in Italy today, saying she was paying with her life for a crime she did not commit. “The accusations are completely unjust […] […]

TWO inmates have been charged with murdering a convicted child rapist found “disembowelled” in his cell at an English prison. Mitchell Harrison, 23, who had been jailed for the rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was […] […]