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TWO British men were jailed for four years overnight after pleading guilty to inciting disorder via social-networking sites during last week’s riots. The jail terms dished out to Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, […] […]

British police arrested a 19-year-old man in a remote Scottish archipelago on Wednesday on suspicion of being a spokesman for the Lulz Security and Anonymous computer hacking groups, Scotland Yard said. Officers from a London-based […] […]

ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN—Thirteen people were killed in a powerful earthquake that hit Uzbekistan’s heavily populated Ferghana Valley region early Wednesday, emergency officials said. A magnitude-6.2 temblor that centred in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan hit shortly after midnight in […] […]

TYPHOON Ma hit Japan early thismorning, injuring dozens as it crossed the southern part of Tokushima prefecture on Shikoku, Kyodo News reported. Torrential rain and lashing winds from the typhoon injured at least 47 people […] […]

US weather forecasters say Dora has become the fourth hurricane in the Eastern Pacific season as it strengthens off the coast of Mexico. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm was centred […] […]

A FORMER News of the World reporter who claimed his editor knew phone hacking was taking place at the paper and encouraged him to do it has been found dead. Show biz journalist Sean Hoare, […] […]

Tripoli was rocked by a series of airstrikes by NATO forces in the early hours of Sunday morning, local time. Libyan television reported that the “NATO crusader forces” had hit civilian and military targets in […] […]

FIVE NATO soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing in the northeastern province of Kapisa, the alliance said today, referring to an area in which mostly French troops are based. Separately the police chief […] […]

A VEHICLE packed with schoolchildren returning home from a soccer tournament has crashed into a canal in Bangladesh, killing at least 40. About 60 children between the ages of eight and 12 were on the […] […]

A PACKED passenger train travelling at full speed derailed in northern India, killing at least 35 people and leaving up to 100 injured after carriages were thrown off the tracks. Some of the 15 derailed […] […]