Articles by sandrea

A DETECTIVE on Scotland Yard’s phone-hacking investigation has been arrested over allegations of leaking confidential information to The Guardian. Police said the male detective constable, aged 51, attached to Operation Weeting, was arrested, interviewed and […] […]

ETHNIC and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 65 people in Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi, with police the latest victims shot dead in a brazen ambush, officials said today. The government has been […] […]

A bomb attack in a mosque during the main Friday prayers has killed dozens and wounded many more in the tribal district of Khyber in north-west Pakistan. It was the deadliest attack for two months […] […]

THREE men convicted in the nightmarish slayings of three Cub Scouts in the US have gone free, nearly two decades after they were sent to prison in a case so gruesome it raised suspicions the […] […]

Record numbers of A-level candidates are expected to end up without a university place today – as the latest unemployment numbers underline the bleak prospects of them finding a job. More than one in five […] […]

Britain, France, Germany and Portugal say they’ll seek a UN Security Council resolution ordering sanctions against Syria over its deadly crackdown on protests. The measures proposed could include an assets freeze and travel ban against […] […]

AT least eight people were killed as a wave of suicide explosions rocked a British cultural centre in Kabul on Friday, a public holiday marking Afghanistan’s independence from Britain in 1919. Five blasts, claimed by […] […]

DISASTER-weary Japan was rattled by another strong quake Friday, which measured at a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, triggered a tsunami warning and sent people diving for cover. The quake struck the Pacific seabed not far […] […]

EIGHT Israelis have been killed in a string of attacks in southern Israel, prompting the military to hit back with strikes on the Gaza militant group it said was responsible. Thursday’s bloodshed, which killed six […] […]

US President Barack Obama has slapped tough new sanctions on Syria in an executive order that freezes all Syrian government assets and forbids investment and exports to the country. The order also targets Syria’s oil […] […]