Month: November 2011

LONDON—Six people are missing and two have been rescued after a cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea early on Sunday in gale force winds off the coast of north Wales, British authorities said. Holyhead […] […]

AN Arab League deadline for Damascus to accept observers or face sanctions passed late last night with no response from Syria, as activists reported more deaths and anti-regime protests inside the country. The Syrian Observatory […] […]

MORE than 100 people, including a dozen Chinese government employees, have been sentenced over chemical-laced pork that caused a food safety scandal earlier this year, state media says. One person was given the death penalty. […] […]

LAWYERS for Michael Jackson’s doctor have asked that he receive probation for his involuntary manslaughter conviction, while prosecutors have urged a sentence of four years in prison. In a sentencing memo filed on Wednesday in […] […]

THE United States has announced fresh sanctions against Iran’s energy sector and warned firms against dealing with Iran’s financial sector, as it tries to ”sharpen” Iran’s choice to pursue nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Hillary […] […]

An unidentified man burst into flames while waiting outside a train station in Sweden. Witnesses said the man was standing outside a music shop at the Gothenberg central train station around 10.30pm, when he suddenly […] […]

Hollywood star Hugh Grant has let rip at Britain’s tabloid press, telling an inquiry that a burglary at his flat led to stories and that phone-hacking was used by non-Rupert Murdoch newspapers. On a dramatic […] […]

Bradley Manning, the US soldier alleged to have passed to WikiLeaks a trove of military and diplomatic documents, will have a first hearing before a military court next month, the Pentagon says. Manning, who has […] […]

HOMICIDE detectives have re-opened their investigation of Natalie Wood’s death nearly 30 years after the actress drowned in the waters off Southern California in one of Hollywood’s most alluring mysteries. The renewed look at Wood’s […] […]