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Six people were arrested, another was taken to hospital and one of London’s busiest shopping areas was closed after a mass water fight got out of hand. Officers believe around 1,500 revellers took part in […] […]

LONDON—A British taxi driver was being investigated by tax officials before he fatally shot 12 people including his twin brother, police said Saturday. Derrick Bird, 52, also may have feuded with his family and colleagues […] […]

FORMER Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke now faces a nervous wait after Chief Justice Zaila McCalla yesterday reserved her decision on an application for a judicial review of the justice minister’s decision to proceed […] […]

Events like the Dudus affair raise questions about how the society has become coarsened and brutalised to the point where Jamaica now regularly appears in the top ten of most murderous countries in the world. […] […]

A Redwood City gang member who fatally stabbed a 23-year-old man in 2008 about a month after escaping from a San Mateo County juvenile probation camp was convicted Friday of second-degree murder. The jury deliberated […] […]

The pages of a will left by Derrick Bird’s father provided an insight yesterday into the simmering tensions – and the substantial gap in wealth – between the taxi driver and the twin brother who […] […]

From the street, it was an unremarkable car-body shop in a busy middle-class neighbourhood. Behind its metal garage door, Automotores Orletti was a tactical operations centre for Operation Condor, a co-ordinated effort by South America’s […] […]

THE PROMISE of a new day dawns in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, with today’s scheduled opening of a police post in the community that has been devoid of consistent police presence for most of its […] […]

THE security forces have found shallow graves and an alleged torture chamber in an area of Tivoli Gardens they believed was used by thugs to hold informal court sessions and inflict cruel punishment on dissidents. […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Relatives of 49 children killed in a day care fire a year ago held an overnight vigil Friday in their memories and to demand punishment for officials who they say failed to ensure the […] […]