Month: December 2011

In a dramatic shift, British Olympic officials have doubled the funding to protect venues at the 2012 London Games, raising overall security costs to more than 1 billion pounds ($1.53bn). Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson insisted […] […]

Iran’s armed forces have shot down an unmanned US spy plane that violated Iranian airspace along the country’s eastern border, the official IRNA news agency reported. An unidentified military official quoted in the report warned […] […]

THE High Court in London ruled tonight that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can apply to the Supreme Court in an attempt to block his extradition to Sweden over rape allegations. Two judges ruled that Assange’s […] […]

British Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is embroiled in further controversy after branding people who throw themselves under trains as “selfish”. The 51-year-old, who was forced to apologise this week after saying all striking workers […] […]

An 85-year-old woman says she was injured and humiliated when she was strip-searched at Kennedy Airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner – allegations that security officials […] […]

A jogger who saved a suicidal teenager from drowning herself in a United States lake was a convicted child molester on the run for six years, police said yesterday. Michael Rogers, 49, said he could […] […]

Up to two million public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike over changes to their pensions, after the government responded to slashed growth forecasts with fresh spending cuts. In what unions said was […] […]

When four bodies were found last December strewn along a remote barrier beach south of New York’s Long Island, police figured they were dealing with a serial killer. When the remains of six others were […] […]

Federal prosecutors in New York City say they’ve broken up a mob-run ring that recruited women from Russia and other Eastern European countries to dance at New York strip clubs. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that charges […] […]