Month: November 2011

An American writer missing in Libya for months returned to the United States yesterday telling reporters he went to participate in the uprising against dictator Muammar Gaddafi and was on a reconnaissance mission when he […] […]

AT least seven people died in one of Britain’s worst ever motorway pile-ups, police said, as investigators probed the cause of the crash which triggered a huge fireball. Footage taken at the scene showed motorists […] […]

ISRAEL has freed six of 27 passengers and crew who were aboard two ships intercepted by its navy while trying to run the Jewish state’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Commandos boarded the Irish-flagged […] […]

A PAKISTANI court has indicted two police officers and five alleged Taliban militants over the asassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Nobody has been convicted or jailed for Bhutto’s murder in Rawalpindi in a […] […]

RUSSIAN police arrested a man who was found to be living with the mummified bodies of 26 women. Historian Anatoly Moskvin, 45, stole the dead bodies of females aged between 15 and 25 years from […] […]

A US judge has ordered a New York man who claims partial ownership of Facebook to return to the United States to conduct a search for evidence in the case. Paul Ceglia of Wellsville, New […] […]

Texas police have launched an investigation into an online video that shows a Texas family law judge profanely berating and repeatedly lashing his 16-year-old daughter with a belt. The nearly 8-minute video, which has been […] […]

US Marines badly wounded in Afghanistan may get a “lollipop” with a powerful pain killer from now on instead of the traditional shot of morphine, a Marine Corps spokesman said yesterday. The new treatment offers […] […]

AUSTRALIAN WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last night lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations. British High Court judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely said that Mr Assange, who was in […] […]

THOUSANDS of anti-capitalists have poured into the French Riviera city of Nice for a march against corporate greed ahead of the G20 summit in nearby Cannes, echoing protests worldwide. Shouting “People first, not finance!”, protesters […] […]