World/Local News

The body of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist abducted a few hours earlier by Islamic extremists has been found hanged in a Gaza City house, the Hamas government said today. The officials said Hamas police stormed […] […]

Japanese police have found 10 dead bodies less than 10 kilometres away from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. The bodies were found in Namie, a town in the northeastern Japan prefecture that was hit […] […]

MICHAEL Jackson’s doctor was so distracted by his own complicated love live that he failed to pay proper attention to the pop star’s treatment in the hours before he died, according to court documents. Prosecutors […] […]

BARACK Obama has aligned himself with David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy by committing to support military action in Libya until Colonel Gaddafi is gone, in an unprecedented joint article published today in The Times. The […] […]

LONDON—Britain must cut immigration dramatically to ease social strain, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, telling supporters the influx of newcomers was putting serious pressure on some communities. Cameron said large-scale immigration had caused “discomfort […] […]

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi army raid last week on Camp Ashraf left 34 Iranian exiles dead, according to a U.N. spokesman who on Thursday offered the first independent death toll for the attack that drew sharp rebukes […] […]

A BRITISH tourist has died in police custody in Dubai, the British Foreign Office said. Lee Brown, 39, reportedly suffered severe beatings after being arrested over a row at a luxury hotel in the emirate. […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron was set to argue that immigration and welfare dependency were “two sides of the same coin” and created “disjointed” neighbourhoods. Cameron, who branded multiculturalism a “failure” during a February speech […] […]

North Korea confirmed Thursday that it has arrested an American man for committing an unspecified crime and is preparing to indict him. The man, identified by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency as Jun […] […]

Britain and France have asked other members of Nato to step up air strikes on Libyan government forces. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has traveled to Paris to discuss the Libyan conflict with President Sarkozy, […] […]