World/Local News

AMSTERDAM—A gunman opened fire with a machine gun at a crowded shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least seven people dead and wounding 15 others, officials and witnesses said. The attacker was among […] […]

CAIRO—Soldiers beat hundreds of protesters with clubs and fired heavy volleys of gunfire into the air in a pre-dawn attack that broke up a demonstration in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, a sign of the increasing […] […]

The two young men on the north Belfast street corner approved of the bomb which killed young Catholic police recruit Ronan Kerr last Sunday. “Aye, that’s good stuff, aye,” said one. “I just hate cops […] […]

A US woman charged with attempted murder for withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son testified Friday that she did not give him at least five months of chemotherapy medications because the side effects made […] […]

US authorities have fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $US70 million ($67.02 million) for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq. The Department of […] […]

AN Australian resident has been jailed for three years by a London court for his costly bomb hoax on an international flight that resulted in an innocent man being interrogated by police. Military fighter jets […] […]

THE owner of Britain’s News of the World newspaper has offered an “unreserved apology” for phone hacking and said it would set up a compensation fund. Rupert Murdoch’s News International said it admitted liability in […] […]

ISRAELI warplanes and tanks hammered Gaza yesterday and early today, killing 11 people in the deadliest day of violence in the strip since the end of the Gaza war two years ago. A truce declared […] […]

SENDAI, JAPAN—Nearly a half-million homes suffered blackouts in Japan’s northeast Friday after a new earthquake killed three people and piled more misery on a region buried under the rubble of last month’s devastating tsunami. The […] […]

NATO refused to apologise today for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles. “I’m not apologising,” Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy […] […]