World/Local News

LONDON—British voters were deciding Thursday whether to change how members of Parliament are elected—an issue that has split the government but didn’t appear to excite the public. Voters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were […] […]

A Mexican teen deported from Canada touched down in Toronto on a flight from El Salvador late Wednesday night, capping a dramatic four-country escape. In the process, Josette Rosenzweig Issasi, 14, outwitted the combined smarts […] […]

PAKISTAN warned the US of “disastrous consequences” if it carries out any more unauthorised raids against suspected terrorists like the one that killed Osama bin Laden. However, the government in Islamabad stopped short of labelling […] […]

AL-JAZEERA is in mourning since the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of US forces. The grieving should come as no surprise, as the most popular cable news network in the Middle East, […] […]

ITALIAN police have seized assets worth around $1.38 billion from the Polverino mafia clan based in the Naples region, including companies, land and yachts, police said today. A police operation on Tuesday netted 39 alleged […] […]

A SENIOR US defence official says only one of the five people killed in the raid that took down Osama bin Laden was armed and ever fired a shot. And the official says that shooter […] […]

US intelligence will seek to achieve in the coming weeks “information dominance” over the al-Qa’ida network – taking advantage of what officials have called a “motherlode” of data found at Osama bin Laden’s compound in […] […]

ONE of the people convicted of killing two-year-old James Bulger – a crime that shocked Britain and made headlines worldwide – is to be given a new name after a serious security breach revealed details […] […]

A TOP Russian secret service agent suspected of blowing the cover of a sleeper spy ring in the US was a heavy drinker who betrayed Moscow solely to make money, sources said. Alexander Poteyev, who […] […]

A CAR bomb tore through a cafe packed with young men watching a football match yesterday in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, officials said. It was the first major attack since US commandos killed […] […]