World/Local News

ROME—NATO is having trouble destroying mortars and rockets fired by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists at the besieged rebel city of Misrata, the organization’s top military official said Tuesday, citing the alliance’s mandate that does not allow […] […]

A NEW outbreak of post-poll rioting in northern Nigeria had left many dead, the Red Cross said, after President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for unity following his win. Authorities had not given a death toll for […] […]

British teachers will today call for an investigation into rising levels of poor behaviour among girls in the classroom. Girls, they argue, are more likely to resort to cyber-bullying – bullying over the internet and […] […]

Detectives in Florida are trying to establish what led two British holidaymakers from a “night on the town” in the centre of Sarasota to a run-down, crime-ridden area of the city where they were shot […] […]

CAIRO—Protesters led by hardline Islamists in southern Egypt held their ground Monday, saying they won’t end their campaign of civil disobedience until the government removes a newly appointed Coptic Christian governor. The protesters, many from […] […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Authorities in Dubai are still investigating the death of a British tourist in the Gulf emirate although they insist the man died from suffocating on his own vomit in custody, not beatings. […] […]

An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced to 34 years in an Arizona prison for running over and killing his 20-year-old daughter because she became too Westernised. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Roland Steinle told Faleh Hassan […] […]

THE US State Department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as the Obama administration has tried to reach out to the autocratic leader’s regime. The Washington Post, citing previously undisclosed […] […]

BRITAIN was to hold urgent talks with the UN last night about the “dire” and worsening humanitarian situation in Libya, as Prime Minister David Cameron insisted it would not send ground forces into Libya despite […] […]

TWO Palestinian youths have been arrested for the murder in a West Bank settlement last month of five members of an Israeli family, including a three-month-old baby whose throat was slashed. Israeli security authorities announced […] […]