Month: October 2011

FRANKFURT, Germany—A U.S. airman who survived a fatal shooting of two fellow servicemen told a court Monday how he stared the gunman in the face and saw “hate in his eyes.” Trevor Brewer, 23, was […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has been involved in a furious row with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said he was sick of the UK offering advice on the euro, Sky News reported today. Cameron […] […]

CHINESE police have arrested two drivers suspected of running over a toddler who died a week after she was struck on a busy market street in southern China and was ignored by passers-by. The Beijing […] […]

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has unveiled its “unprecedented” campaign to win independence from Britain. Campaign chief Angus Robertson told the party’s conference in Inverness, north Scotland, the party would “work as hard as possible” […] […]

Voters in the Irish Republic go to the polls on Thursday night to elect the country’s next president after a campaign of unprecedented political thrills and spills. The main feature has been the heated questions […] […]

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has extended condolences to the people of Turkey after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the eastern part of the country yesterday. The quake has killed at least 217 people […] […]

Police in a small Utah town are being accused of overreacting after using pepper spray to break up a group of Polynesian men and boys performing a haka after a high school football game. The […] […]

A FRENCH father won a 30-year quest for justice for his dead daughter after a German doctor he had kidnapped and delivered to the French courts to face charges was convicted of her killing. A […] […]

THE US embassy in Nairobi has warned of an “imminent threat” of attacks possibly targeting foreigners, one week after Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to hunt down Shebab fighters. The embassy cited “credible information of […] […]