World/Local News

GUNMEN have killed two Shiite policemen in Pakistan’s southwest. Police officer Amir Mohammad says the attack today at a checkpoint also wounded three bystanders in Quetta city, the capital of the sparsely populated, rugged province […] […]

SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell was considering Sunday suing the Kraft Foods-owned chocolate maker Cadbury over an advertising campaign she claimed was racist. Campbell — famed for her diva-like tendencies — said she was “considering every option […] […]

SYRIAN government troops backed by tanks attacked two central towns today in an attempt to stop round-the-clock protests against President Bashar Assad’s regime, killing at least two people and wounding several others. Security forces in […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber has claimed the life of one of Afghanistan’s most renowned anti-Taliban police commanders and narrowly missed killing a senior NATO commander. Two German soldiers were also among six people killed in the […] […]

A powerful bomb ripped through a restaurant at a market in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, killing eight men and wounding 10 others, officials said. The attack happened in the Salarzai […] […]

TWO more Germans have died of a bacterial outbreak allegedly caused by contaminated Spanish cucumbers – bringing the number of deaths to nine, officials say. German news agency DAPD reported that two more women died […] […]

EGYPT today reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four years, in a move hailed by Hamas but criticised by Israel. Among the first to […] […]

A CAIRO court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and two ex-ministers $US90 million dollars ($A84.7 million) for “damaging the economy” with a telephone and Internet shutdown during Egypt’s uprising. Mubarak, his former prime minister […] […]

US President Barack Obama has reassured east European allies that cooperation over missile defence with their Soviet-era master Moscow does not mean NATO will cede partial control to Russia. “We believe that missile defence is […] […]

US President Barack Obama has left Warsaw, ending a four-country European tour that took him to Ireland, Britain, a G8 summit in France and lastly to Poland. Air Force One departed the Polish capital after […] […]