World/Local News

THE death toll from a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre in northwest Pakistan has risen to 89. Pakistan’s Taliban said the attack in the town of Shabqadar – which also wounded […] […]

JAPAN has shut down the final working reactor at a nuclear plant near a tectonic fault line as Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged a new law to help compensate victims of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. […] […]

JURORS in an American woman’s third trial have found her guilty of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven. China Arnold, 31, was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of 28-day-old […] […]

TRIPOLI, Libya—Eleven Muslim clerics were killed in their sleep by a NATO airstrike Friday on the eastern oil town of Brega, a Libyan government spokesman said. The spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, says the clerics were among […] […]

LIBYAN rebel leader Mahmud Jibril was headed for the White House today as he pressed a diplomatic offensive buoyed by a British invitation to open a first foreign office and the breaking of the loyalist […] […]

THE Pentagon will boost protection for the commando team that killed Osama bin Laden, claiming too much information has been leaked about their covert mission. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday he was determined […] […]

ATHENS, GREECE—Government officials appealed for calm Friday after three days of attacks by ultranationalist mobs on dark-skinned foreigners in Athens, sparked by the fatal mugging of a Greek man in the capital’s crime-infested centre. The […] […]

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT—Egyptian authorities on Friday ordered the detention of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, and a doctor said she passed out on hearing the news. The detention order was reported by […] […]

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco authorities are investigating a mother who said on a national television program that she gives her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections. Trent Rhorer with the city’s Human Services Agency tells KGO-TV that officials […] […]

SHABQADAR, PAKISTAN—A pair of Taliban suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits eagerly heading home for a break after months of training, killing 80 people Friday in the first act of retaliation for the U.S. raid […] […]