Month: January 2012

SEVERAL suspected diehard supporters of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have been subjected to torture and some have even died in detention centres run by armed militias, human rights groups said yesterday. “Several detainees have […] […]

Surrey Police knew for nine years that the News of the World had been hacking Milly Dowler’s voicemails and was even played a recording of one message by a journalist from the Sunday newspaper, but […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israeli police say a group of ultra-Orthodox extremists have attacked a woman who was putting up posters in a troubled town near Jerusalem. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says about a dozen ultra-Orthodox men in the […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s High Court has cleared the way for the extradition of a suspected Basque separatist wanted in connection with a plot to assassinate Spain’s king. The court ruled Monday that Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui, 44, can […] […]

LONDON—British lawmakers are considering whether they will need to abandon the House of Commons for the first time since World War II. Legislators were meeting Monday to discuss if future maintenance work to the Palace […] […]

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake has struck just off the shore of south-central Chile, the area devastated by a massive temblor two years ago. There are no immediate reports of damage and authorities say it will not […] […]

PALESTINIAN police say they have freed a young woman whose father kept her locked in the bathroom of their West Bank house for around a decade. Spokesman Adnan Damiri says the 20-year-old woman was in […] […]

A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group’s deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror […] […]

Doctors’ leaders escalated their dispute with the Government over planned changes to their pensions yesterday after a British Medical Association survey showed almost two out of three would back some form of industrial action. But […] […]

Expensive cars, cash, shotguns and artworks are among items seized by police today when they raided 10 Auckland properties connected to allegations of international copyright infringement being investigated by the FBI. Four people were arrested […] […]