World/Local News

A DRONE missile strike has killed two soldiers by mistake, the first instance US troops have been killed in a “friendly fire” incident involving an unmanned aircraft, officials confirmed. The military has launched a probe […] […]

JAPAN will upgrade the rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as aftershocks continue to rock the country. News of the re-rating of the nuclear crisis came […] […]

SHE went out of her way to become the first woman in France to be fined for wearing a full Muslim veil in public – even parading outside President Sarkozy’s official residence. But the 31-year-old […] […]

CAIRO—An Egyptian military tribunal convicted a blogger of insulting the army and sentenced him to three years in prison, further raising activists’ fears that the army is against greater freedom of expression and political reform. […] […]

BEIJING—Chinese police on Sunday detained more than 100 people who tried to hold an outdoor prayer service on a pedestrian bridge in Beijing after they were refused permission to open a church. Although it is […] […]

FRANCE has officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places, with a controversial new law coming into effect today. Other European countries have drawn up bans on the burqa and the niqab but […] […]

At least 18 people in the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli air strikes over the weekend and dozens wounded as 120 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza into Israel in the most […] […]

Syrian security forces and pro-government gunmen killed four protesters on Sunday in the port city of Banias after the army sealed off the city as hundreds of protesters gathered, undaunted by the regime’s use of […] […]

Japan is marking a month since a 9.0 magnitude undersea quake sent a powerful tsunami crashing into its coast, devastating entire towns and sparking the worst nuclear emergency in 25 years. People across the country […] […]

The lives of scores of people were put at risk in Northern Ireland as a stream of vehicles were allowed to pass within feet of a van containing a large bomb, it emerged yesterday. The […] […]