World/Local News

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has arrived in court for his corruption trial on charges he bribed a witness to lie in another trial. It is the premier’s fourth court appearance in recent months. He […] […]

THE mysterious death of a 17-year-old New Zealand girl in England, two days after she told friends she had a stalker, was being investigated by police today. The body of Emily Longley was found Saturday […] […]

THE death toll from a string of Taliban attacks on government buildings in the Afghan city of Kandahar has risen to four as militants held out into a second day. The violence in the Taliban’s […] […]

THE accused mastermind of last year’s bloody Baghdad church siege grabbed a policeman’s gun mid-interrogation today and led a jail mutiny that left eight police, including a general, and 10 inmates dead. The daring incident […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s troops have unleashed a salvo of Grad rockets on towns in Libya’s western mountains, and destroyed key fuel supplies in Misrata, aggravating a desperate humanitarian crisis in the besieged city. The rebels, meanwhile, […] […]

TORRANCE, CALIF. — Authorities say soccer star David Beckham was behind the wheel of a car that rear-ended another vehicle on a Southern California freeway. The California Highway Patrol said Saturday the soccer great was […] […]

NASHVILLE, TENN.—A Muslim religious leader blames “racism and bias” after he and a colleague bound for a conference on Islamophobia were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and told it was […] […]

The funnel cakes were definitely a hit. It was no surprise that plates of deep-fried dough sprinkled with white icing sugar became immensely popular at a festival attended by 25,000 pot enthusiasts who spent the […] […]

US-Yemeni cleric and terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaqi narrowly escaped a US drone attack last week according to a tribal source. The attack came just three days after American commandos killed Al-Qai’da chief Osama bin Laden. […] […]

THE Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar today, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Militants with guns and rocket-propelled grenades […] […]