World/Local News

UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are set to be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) later this year, the first time that it has sought to bring social media messages […] […]

FORMER Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has slammed the United States for violating Islamabad’s sovereignty in carrying out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a media report say. The former military strongman told the expatriate […] […]

SYRIA Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of protesters demanding an end to President Bashar Assad’s regime, killing more than 30 people in a sign that the authoritarian leader is prepared to ride out […] […]

BRITISH voters overwhelmingly rejected changing the electoral system, with 69 per cent opposing a switch to a new system in a national referendum, a BBC projection said today. Only 31 per cent supported the change […] […]

The MI5 spy agency and Britain’s emergency services were bracing for criticism last night as a judge prepared to hand down her verdict on the July 7, 2005, bombings in London. Heather Hallett, the coroner […] […]

THE hideout where Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos was under surveillance for months by a team of CIA spies who operated out of a nearby safe house in the Pakistani city of […] […]

A key piece of evidence that helped convict a man of first-degree murder was uncovered by police within weeks of his wife’s disappearance, prosecutors said today. North Carolina police investigators discovered a map on Bradley […] […]

The French government has ordered 14 diplomats loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country within 48 hours. A foreign ministry spokesman says the 14 “ex-diplomats” worked for Libya’s embassy before it was […] […]

PLANS by al-Qai’da to attack US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks have been uncovered in material seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. However US counterterrorism officials say […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada admitted it cannot fully defend against the threat of a nuclear device and begged the United States military to lend a hand less than a year before the 2010 Olympics, secret cables between the […] […]