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HAVANA—Cuban authorities say all 68 people aboard a state airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital were killed. The passengers, including 28 foreigners, were aboard an AeroCaribbean Flight when […] […]

OTTAWA—Gun shot wounds, buried bombs, vehicle rollovers, rocket attacks and suicide bombers. For seven months in 2008 — from March to September — those were just a few of the battlefield traumas suffered by Canadian […] […]

KARACHI, PAKISTAN—A small, private plane chartered to an oil company crashed near the airport in Pakistan’s largest city Friday after the pilot warned of engine trouble, killing all 21 people on board, officials said. The […] […]

UNIONTOWN, Pa.—A western Pennsylvania man has been acquitted of all charges he faced for allegedly conspiring with a woman to drug, rape and impregnate her 13-year-old daughter. A Fayette County jury took less than an […] […]

SAN DIEGO – Federal authorities in San Diego have made one of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States, confiscating 20 tonnes of pot near an underground tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of […] […]

SYDNEY – A British author faces a possible jail term in Singapore after being convicted yesterday of contempt of court for criticising the city-state’s judiciary in a book on its use of the death penalty. […] […]

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit out at “indecent attacks” against him, following a series of lurid revelations in the press about his liaisons with call-girls. “I will stay on despite the daily baseless attacks […] […]

THE world’s oldest person, a nun named Eugenie Blanchard, has died aged 114 in the French West Indies. Ms Blanchard died in hospital on Saint-Barthelemy, an island some 250km north of Guadeloupe, around 3am (5.00am […] […]

BRITAIN’S Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has issued an intervention notice over News Corp’s plans to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB and is refering the matter to media regulator Ofcom. Ofcom will investigate whether […] […]

FRENCH police have arrested two men suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told France 2 television the pair was suspected of having links to a terrorist group. “They were […] […]