Archive

POLICE in France have detained a couple after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in a house and in the garden of another village home. Police with sniffer dogs were continuing their search […] […]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — World 100 metres record holder Usain Bolt will take on US sprint rivals Tyson Gay and fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell in the IAAF Diamond League meet here on August 6, organisers confirmed […] […]

JERUSALEM—Lying for sex. It happens all the time. Yet a married Palestinian man has been ordered jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman after giving her the impression he too was […] […]

A KENYAN court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 14 years in jail for having sex with a donkey. Stephen Kipkemoi Rono was convicted after pleading guilty before a court in the southern town of […] […]

THE capture in June of accused drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke appears to have been facilitated by the police intercepting the telephone conversations of the Rev Al Miller, the pastor with whom Coke was travelling […] […]

CAIRO—Al-Qaida’s No. 2 has slammed France’s push to ban the Islamic full-face veil and urged Muslim women in a new audio message that surfaced on the Internet Wednesday to be “holy warriors” in the defense […] […]

A MAN who tried to suffocate his girlfriend while bashing her after she talked to other men at a pub has been jailed for five years. Andrew Miller, 43, repeatedly told his partner Kerrie Johnston […] […]

WASHINGTON—International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials told The […] […]

A MAN who claimed to be an internationally revered spiritual guru in order to rape and sexually assault potentially hundreds of women has been jailed for ten years by a British judge. London’s Wood Green […] […]

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—The victim’s lawyers in a trial of two Egyptian policemen involved in the death of a young man demanded Tuesday that the defendants face torture charges in a case that has focused national attention […] […]