World/Local News

FIVE men whose attempt to raid a jewelry store in central England was foiled by a 71-year-old “supergran” are now facing jail. Ann Timson became an international hero in February after taking on the gang […] […]

JORDANIAN security forces have arrested 70 Islamists after violent protests in which nearly 100 people were injured, most of them policemen. The suspects, members of the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Salafist movement, were detained during raids […] […]

LEVELS of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, possibly signalling new leaks at the facility, the government said. The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan […] […]

BRITAIN’S coalition suffered its most significant political split yesterday after the Liberal Democrat’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, accused Prime Minister David Cameron of inflaming racial tensions with his speech on immigration. Dr Cable said Mr […] […]

A TEENAGER has been jailed for 30 years for his role in the 2008 US torture killing of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say died after weeks of systematic scaldings, beatings, burns from […] […]

ISLAMIST protesters armed with swords, daggers and bats have attacked police in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, wounding 51 of them, as 32 other police suffered from tear gas inhalation, the country’s police chief said. […] […]

HUMAN Rights Watch slammed the use of child soldiers in a Yemeni army division which has sided with anti-regime demonstrators in a crisis that has cost more than 125 lives. “Child soldiers recruited by the […] […]

EX-CROATIAN general Ante Gotovina has been jailed for 24 years and co-accused Mladen Markac for 18 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but a third defendant, Ivan Cermak, has been acquitted. All three […] […]

THE resignation of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would be “an insult for all Libyans”, his daughter Aisha said today, after repeated calls by world leaders for him to step down. “To speak of Gaddafi’s resignation […] […]

Japan’s government has ordered the operator of a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant leaking radiation to pay about US$12,000 to each household forced to evacuate from the area. Tens of thousands of residents unable to return to […] […]