World/Local News

President Barack Obama has condemned a US pastor’s burning of the Koran, after violent protests at what he called an act of “extreme intolerance and bigotry” left 17 dead in Afghanistan. Ten people died yesterday […] […]

A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland’s police force has been killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car, police and neighbours said. No group claimed responsibility for […] […]

A NATO airstrike intended to thwart Muammar Gaddafi’s forces killed 13 rebel fighters in eastern Libya instead, the opposition said Saturday, but they described it as an “unfortunate accident” and stressed it did not diminish […] […]

The utility that runs a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear power plant says two workers were killed when the wave swept ashore more than three weeks ago. Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s announcement today is the first confirmation […] […]

Japan’s unfolding nuclear disaster is “much bigger than Chernobyl” and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert said yesterday. “Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The […] […]

LONDON—A British man whose daughter died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie says former Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa may be able to shed new light […] […]

SYRIAN security forces made dawn arrests today as mourners prepared to bury the first of at least nine people killed in anti-government protests on the Muslim day of rest, rights activists said. The arrests came […] […]

A PETITION demanding the release of a young Libyan woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel full of journalists and accused government soldiers of raping her was well on the way to reaching its target […] […]

THE US pastor, whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan, says the religion of Islam must be held accountable. “Islam is not a religion of peace,” Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s government has spurned a conditional ceasefire proposed by Libyan rebels as his forces battle for the oil town of Brega. Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said in rebel bastion Benghazi overnight […] […]