Month: October 2011

The family of Joanna Yeates sat a few feet from her killer at Bristol Crown Court yesterday as he demonstrated how he strangled her. “It was like this,” said Vincent Tabak, 33, holding up his […] […]

President Barack Obama declared on Friday an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in US history. He said all US troops would be withdrawn from the country by […] […]

THE lead lawyer for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death has challenged a key prosecution expert about his contention that the physician was responsible for the death of the singer. Lawyer Ed Chernoff today […] […]

BEIRUT—Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets Friday and shouted that President Bashar Assad’s regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi […] […]

MICHAEL Jackson was so heavily drugged in the hours before his death that he would have been incapable of self-administering the massive dose of propofol that killed him, a medical expert testified at the trial […] […]

FAMILIES of the US victims of the Lockerbie bombing have applauded the Libyan people after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, but urged Libya’s new leaders to bring the other perpetrators to justice. Gaddafi was accused […] […]

WORLD leaders hailed it as a victory, Libyan exiles celebrated in the streets and the mother of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s many victims said she was treating herself to an expensive bottle of champagne. But […] […]

A MEDICAL expert has testified that Dr Conrad Murray’s repeated and flagrant violations of the standard of care involving a powerful anaesthetic, led to the death of Michael Jackson. Dr Steven Shafer told jurors the […] […]

A disabled Frenchwoman who was snatched by gunmen from her beachfront home at a Kenyan resort and taken to neighbouring Somalia has died in the hands of her captors, France says. The foreign ministry said […] […]

Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens overnight during a big anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures that erupted into violence. Outside parliament, demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and petrol […] […]