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An influential US Senate committee is ready to send members to the UK to question British witnesses on the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi on compassionate grounds. Senator Robert Menendez revealed […] […]

THE US has vowed to prosecute those behind the leak of documents on the Afghan war, which it says pose “dangerous” risks for Americans in battle. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon will […] […]

BAGHDAD—Al-Qaida briefly planted its flag in Baghdad on Thursday as militants killed 23 members of Iraq’s security forces across the country in a combination of shootings and roadside bombs demonstrating the dangers the country still […] […]

The State of Arizona has asked an appeals court to reverse a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s controversial new immigration laws. Meanwhile, the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including 50 who were […] […]

A former immigration judge who tried to pressure a refugee claimant into having sex in return for a favourable decision was handed an 18-month jail term Thursday. Steve Ellis, 51, was convicted of breach of […] […]

ARGHANDAB VALLEY, Afghanistan—This strategic valley on the outskirts of Kandahar is on its third government boss in eight months. The first quit out of fear and frustration. The Taliban assassinated the second. Now the militants […] […]

TWO women have been sentenced to six years each in jail for squatting in a Manila cemetery that is reserved for national heroes, but has become over-run with people needing homes, the military said. The […] […]

A former public schoolboy murdered his overbearing father, dismembered his body and buried him under concrete in their garden because he wanted to escape the weight of expectation placed upon him, a jury heard yesterday. […] […]

A Canadian man who videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia victimised the children, a judge ruled in sentencing him to 11 years in prison. Justice Austin Cullen […] […]

Edith Vogelhut, a former model, said that she went to Jack Nicholson’s house with Polanski after a dinner party in 1974. They had a drink before Polanski gave her an ecstasy pill, handcuffed her and […] […]