Articles by sandrea

Voters in the Irish Republic go to the polls on Thursday night to elect the country’s next president after a campaign of unprecedented political thrills and spills. The main feature has been the heated questions […] […]

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has extended condolences to the people of Turkey after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the eastern part of the country yesterday. The quake has killed at least 217 people […] […]

Police in a small Utah town are being accused of overreacting after using pepper spray to break up a group of Polynesian men and boys performing a haka after a high school football game. The […] […]

A FRENCH father won a 30-year quest for justice for his dead daughter after a German doctor he had kidnapped and delivered to the French courts to face charges was convicted of her killing. A […] […]

THE US embassy in Nairobi has warned of an “imminent threat” of attacks possibly targeting foreigners, one week after Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to hunt down Shebab fighters. The embassy cited “credible information of […] […]

The family of Joanna Yeates sat a few feet from her killer at Bristol Crown Court yesterday as he demonstrated how he strangled her. “It was like this,” said Vincent Tabak, 33, holding up his […] […]

President Barack Obama declared on Friday an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in US history. He said all US troops would be withdrawn from the country by […] […]

THE lead lawyer for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death has challenged a key prosecution expert about his contention that the physician was responsible for the death of the singer. Lawyer Ed Chernoff today […] […]

BEIRUT—Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets Friday and shouted that President Bashar Assad’s regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi […] […]