Articles by sandrea

LONDON—British police say they are using tough powers at London’s Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street festival, in the wake of riots across England earlier this month. London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it had […] […]

EIGHT children were hurt when a staff member went on a stabbing spree at a day-care centre for migrant workers’ children in Shanghai. The female worker used a box cutter to slash at children aged […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber has blown himself up in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack blamed on al-Qaeda, taking the death toll from nationwide violence to […] […]

SURVIVORS of a massacre in which at least 55 Libyan prisoners were herded into a barn, machine-gunned and set alight by regime loyalists have described how one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons visited the site […] […]

The English Defence League’s plan to march through the capital next month was blocked by the Home Secretary today. Theresa May banned all marches in Tower Hamlets, east London, and four neighbouring boroughs in the […] […]

THE toll as Hurricane Irene lashed the eastern US has risen to at least eight, including an 11-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, emergency officials said today. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the hurricane […] […]

AT least two people have died in North Carolina as Hurricane Irene battered the east coast, US officials said. One man died of a heart attack while boarding up his windows, while another crashed his […] […]

TWIN roadside bomb blasts in east Baghdad killed five policemen and wounded seven other people, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. The explosions targeted a police patrol in the Ghadeer neighbourhood, the official said, on […] […]

Dozens of flights to and from Toronto have been cancelled as Hurricane Irene pounds the east coast of the United States. Pearson International Airport says more than 80 flights arriving in and departing from northeastern […] […]