Articles by sandrea

A PATHOLOGIST says Amy Winehouse consumed a “very large quantity of alcohol” before her death. Suhail Baithun has told an inquest into the singer’s death that blood and urine samples showed she was 4.5 times […] […]

A TRUCE reached by Yemen’s government and dissidents, who have been locked in bloody battles for weeks, collapsed as soon as it was announced, with fresh fighting rocking the capital. Fifteen people were killed in […] […]

A MALAYSIAN court sentenced a Japanese woman to death today for smuggling methamphetamine into the country, a court official said. A high court in Shah Alam near the capital Kuala Lumpur found Mariko Takeuchi guilty […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide have been buried in a secret location, with a few relatives and officials in attendance, a Misrata military council official said. In a text message read […] […]

RESCUERS today pulled a pregnant woman and her two children alive from the rubble, 35 hours after a devastating earthquake killed at least 366 people in eastern Turkey, reviving fading hopes of finding more survivors. […] […]

WIKILEAKS, the worldwide web’s most notorious secret-spiller, is going silent because it’s broke. WikiLeaks said in a statement last night that it would temporarily stop publishing in order to focus on making money. The whistle-blowing […] […]

FRANKFURT, Germany—A U.S. airman who survived a fatal shooting of two fellow servicemen told a court Monday how he stared the gunman in the face and saw “hate in his eyes.” Trevor Brewer, 23, was […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has been involved in a furious row with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said he was sick of the UK offering advice on the euro, Sky News reported today. Cameron […] […]

CHINESE police have arrested two drivers suspected of running over a toddler who died a week after she was struck on a busy market street in southern China and was ignored by passers-by. The Beijing […] […]

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has unveiled its “unprecedented” campaign to win independence from Britain. Campaign chief Angus Robertson told the party’s conference in Inverness, north Scotland, the party would “work as hard as possible” […] […]