Month: October 2011

Britain has urged against all but essential travel to Bangkok as the Thai capital braced itself for severe floods. Britain’s Foreign Office also warned against travel to the twenty-six provinces in Thailand currently affected by […] […]

Texas police were searching for a serial rapist who appears to be targeting sorority sisters after he broke into the homes of four women in their 50s and 60s and attacked them. The violent assaults […] […]

A PATHOLOGIST says Amy Winehouse consumed a “very large quantity of alcohol” before her death. Suhail Baithun has told an inquest into the singer’s death that blood and urine samples showed she was 4.5 times […] […]

A TRUCE reached by Yemen’s government and dissidents, who have been locked in bloody battles for weeks, collapsed as soon as it was announced, with fresh fighting rocking the capital. Fifteen people were killed in […] […]

A MALAYSIAN court sentenced a Japanese woman to death today for smuggling methamphetamine into the country, a court official said. A high court in Shah Alam near the capital Kuala Lumpur found Mariko Takeuchi guilty […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide have been buried in a secret location, with a few relatives and officials in attendance, a Misrata military council official said. In a text message read […] […]

RESCUERS today pulled a pregnant woman and her two children alive from the rubble, 35 hours after a devastating earthquake killed at least 366 people in eastern Turkey, reviving fading hopes of finding more survivors. […] […]

WIKILEAKS, the worldwide web’s most notorious secret-spiller, is going silent because it’s broke. WikiLeaks said in a statement last night that it would temporarily stop publishing in order to focus on making money. The whistle-blowing […] […]