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French authorities have issued an international search alert for murder suspect Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès amid evidence that he carefully planned the killing of his wife and four children. The 50-year-old businessman is wanted after […] […]

Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. He also called on Europeans […] […]

THE man at the centre of the corruption-plagued Delhi Commonwealth Games, Suresh Kalmadi, was arrested last night in the Indian capital on charges of forgery and conspiracy following a nine-month investigation. The former chairman of […] […]

TWIN bomb attacks targeting Pakistan navy buses killed at least three people and wounded another 30 in the port city of Karachi today. The two buses carrying navy personnel were targeted in the upmarket Defence […] […]

US police divers have recovered what a spokesman describes as “fragmented pieces of human remains” from a northern New Mexico lake where authorities have been finding bundles of cocaine since a small plane crashed into […] […]

An IRA terrorist attack somewhere in Britain on the day of the Royal Wedding is “highly likely”, British security chiefs have warned. Strict measures have been put in place around London in preparation for hundreds […] […]

A WASHINGTON DC police commander was unaware that officers provided actor Charlie Sheen with an escort last week, according to an email sent between top officers. In the email sent to other police officials and […] […]

PARIS—A noted Tunisian Islamic thinker urged the world’s Muslims on Monday to reject extremism and restore the true nature of Islam. Rachid Ghanouchi, a founder of Tunisia’s once-banned Ennahdha, or Renaissance, party, gave the closing […] […]

DUBLIN—An Irish Republican Army splinter group vowed Monday to oppose next month’s visit to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II and to keep killing Northern Ireland police officers—particularly those recruited from its own Catholic heartlands. “The […] […]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — More than 400 inmates — many of them Taliban insurgents — escaped from the main prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar overnight through an underground tunnel, an official said […] […]