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US investigators are racing to identify a “golden chain” of al-Qaeda financiers amid claims that some of them visited Osama bin Laden at the house near Islamabad where he was killed, it has emerged. The […] […]

IMF chief and potential French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been charged with sexual assault and attempted rape following accusations by a New York hotel maid. The head of the International Monetary Fund was pulled […] […]

THE head of Britain’s armed forces has urged NATO to widen its bombing campaign as a revolt against Libya’s regime entered its fourth month and the United Nations special envoy was expected in Tripoli today. […] […]

UP to 3000 female babies were presumed “missing” from Taiwan’s population last year due to illegal sex-selective abortion. Abortion practices caused the gap, Chiu Shu-ti, director-general of the Bureau of Health Promotion, was quoted by […] […]

A BRITISH woman beheaded in a random attack at a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands was identified overnight as a grandmother of five. Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, of Norfolk […] […]

US officials have arrested three Pakistani Americans, including two imams, charging them and three others with providing or seeking to provide “material support” to the Pakistani Taliban. The defendants, five men and one woman, “are […] […]

HONG KONG — Even by Hong Kong standards, where a half-dozen demonstrations occur daily, the protest over a government budget here this spring was remarkably rowdy. An estimated 10,000 people showed up, barricades were overturned, […] […]

WASHINGTON — A sizeable stash of pornography was among the items seized when U.S. navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, almost two weeks ago, U.S. officials say. The officials said it […] […]

THE court-ordered blinding of an Iranian man who hurled acid in the face of university classmate Ameneh Bahrami has been postponed, the ISNA news agency said without giving a source. “The execution of qesas (retribution […] […]

PAKISTAN’S parliament has demanded an end to US drone strikes on its territory and called for an independent probe into the raid by US troops that killed Osama bin Laden to ensure there is no […] […]