Month: October 2011

ENGLISH students should be free to quit school when just 14 years old, the country’s former chief schools inspector said. Sir Chris Woodhead – who now heads the company behind some of London’s premier private […] […]

THREE people were shot dead and three more injured at a warehouse party in the US state of California, when up to 400 people converged on the event after seeing promotions on the internet. Police […] […]

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry came under pressure Sunday to explain why his family’s hunting retreat was called “Niggerhead” and why the racially offensive name remained painted on a giant stone there for years. The […] […]

SOME 35,000 people have turned out in Manchester to demonstrate against government budget cuts as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives opened their annual conference. The march in the northwest England city was organised by the […] […]

A SINGER known for his 1990 chart-topping love song has been hauled off a Massachusetts stage and arrested on charges of owing $US420,000 ($431,056) in unpaid child support. Steven Bernard Hill of Las Vegas was […] […]

THE US is bracing for possible revenge terrorist attacks after a CIA-led airstrike in Yemen killed US-born radical cleric and al-Qa’ida figure Anwar al-Awlaki. The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert yesterday that warned […] […]

TO see the horses grazing serenely at a farm on the outskirts of Tripoli last week, you would never have guessed the terrible confession being made in a makeshift interrogation room in one of its […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for disrespectful remarks he made to two female lawmakers but rejected opposition claims that he has a problem with women. Cameron acknowledged that he “screwed up” during recent exchanges […] […]

LONDON—British police have charged three more suspects with the murder of three men run over by a car as they protected their neighborhood from looters during summer riots. The charges bring to eight the number […] […]