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PUPILS at Islamic schools across Britain are being taught how to chop off a criminal’s hand and that Jews are conspiring to take over the world, a BBC investigation has found. Up to 5000 pupils […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban scoffed Sunday at NATO plans to hand over most security responsibilities to Afghan forces in the coming three years while retaining an option to keep international troops in the country […] […]

WOMEN now account for less than 15 per cent of the 942 Jamaicans currently being fed, clothed and educated at the expense of British taxpayers who shell out millions annually to rehabilitate them. Olga Heaven, […] […]

SCORES of people were forced to flee their homes after a restive Philippine volcano shot a column of ash into the air showering surrounding villages. Residents of two villages near the 1565-metre Mount Bulusan volcano […] […]

CAIRO—In eight days here, I took 18 taxi rides. In 15, the drivers were playing tapes or CDs of the Qur’an, or tuned to radio that were broadcasting it. Only two were listening to music […] […]

POLICE have arrested 10 people, including rival coal mine owners, after mob violence that left nine dead and 48 injured in southwest China, state media reported. The violence involving explosives and gunfire broke out after […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities said Saturday they have filed formal charges against alleged drug kingpin Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villareal and are weighing a request to extradite him to the United States. The Texas-born Valdez, considered […] […]

PRESIDENT of the Republic of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Calderon says his country is ready to help Jamaica in the fight against narco-criminals — an ill his country has got a handle on after a […] […]

The man who walked out of the West Coast mine disaster yesterday has had a double tragedy strike after his brother was trapped – and his grandfather died of a heart attack. Daniel Rockhouse survived […] […]

It was her disappearance and the pungent smell that alarmed a prostitute’s landlord. Nuttidar Vaikaew had been dead for nearly a month. Her body lay beneath sheets and blankets on her bed inside her Western […] […]