World/Local News

An 85-year-old woman says she was injured and humiliated when she was strip-searched at Kennedy Airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner – allegations that security officials […] […]

A jogger who saved a suicidal teenager from drowning herself in a United States lake was a convicted child molester on the run for six years, police said yesterday. Michael Rogers, 49, said he could […] […]

Up to two million public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike over changes to their pensions, after the government responded to slashed growth forecasts with fresh spending cuts. In what unions said was […] […]

When four bodies were found last December strewn along a remote barrier beach south of New York’s Long Island, police figured they were dealing with a serial killer. When the remains of six others were […] […]

Federal prosecutors in New York City say they’ve broken up a mob-run ring that recruited women from Russia and other Eastern European countries to dance at New York strip clubs. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that charges […] […]

A woman in London has been arrested after her tirade of abuse of her fellow passengers on a tram was filmed and uploaded on to YouTube. In the two-minute clip the woman is seen shouting […] […]

An 8-year-old elementary school student in the United States who weighs more than 90 kilograms has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn’t doing […] […]

SUSPECTED Islamic militants detonated a powerful bomb that killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in a budget hotel packed with wedding guests in the southern Philippines. Investigators believe the blast and ensuing […] […]

AFGHAN and Western officials claim NATO and Afghan forces came under fire from across the Pakistan border on Saturday before they called in a deadly airstrike on two Pakistani military posts, in an incident that […] […]

RUSSIA will send a flotilla of warships led by its only aircraft carrier to its naval base in Syria for a port call next year, amid tensions with the West over the Syrian crisis. The […] […]