Month: December 2011

LONDON—Officials who control London’s financial district are urging a judge to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, calling it a magnet for disorder and crime. Members of the Occupy London movement are […] […]

LONDON—A legal action charity says the head of Tripoli’s military council is suing Britain and its security forces for their alleged role in his rendition in 2004. London-based group Reprieve says Abdel-Hakim Belhaj and his […] […]

TURKEY’S prime minister yesterday sharply criticised France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass killing of Armenians was genocide. Saying France should investigate what he claimed […] […]

AN elderly New York woman was killed when a masked man dressed in an exterminator suit doused her with a flammable liquid and set her ablaze inside a building elevator, local media reported. The New […] […]

POUNDING rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers and sent walls of water crushing into two southern Philippine cities in the thick of night, killing at least 436 people, many caught in their beds, officials […] […]

CLASHES between Egyptian security forces and protesters against continued military rule killed eight people and wounded another 299, the health ministry said today, overshadowing the vote count in the latest round of a landmark general […] […]

THE Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate has given the reasons for its ruling: the evidence that had been used by a lower court to convict the […] […]

A 10-year-old boy has confessed to killing a four-year-old by strangling him with a skipping rope after an argument, Swedish police say. The boy’s confession came after a 59-day investigation into the playground killing in […] […]

CHINESE authorities have freed a former newspaper reporter and cyber dissident who was jailed for subversion in 2003, a human rights group says. Huang Jinqiu was released from prison in October after serving eight years […] […]

Another mysterious explosion in Iran this week, the third in a month, has stirred speculation that a mysterious hand was once again striking at Iran’s nuclear programme. The blast on Sunday occurred at a steel […] […]