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BENGHAZI, LIBYA—Some bellowed cheers from behind the full face covering of a niqab, their bodies entirely swathed in voluminous black fabric. Most wore only the modest hijab in gay colours. A few were even bare-headed. […] […]

What happens when a diplomat goes rogue? The answer is a gigantic headache for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as his top envoys defect to the opposition, and other members of the normally tight-lipped profession talk […] […]

FOUR decades of public awareness campaigns and a raft of laws have failed to prevent a chronic and worsening gender imbalance in India, Delhi has admitted. The first data from a census carried out this […] […]

TWO New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting and burning a man in the 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina chaos have been sentenced to 25 and 17 years in jail. They were two of three police officers […] […]

JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world’s worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped. Kan told the Japanese Communist Party leader that […] […]

Britain refused Thursday to offer Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa immunity from prosecution after his apparent defection, but said his departure would hearten rebels fighting to topple Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. British Foreign Secretary William Hague […] […]

Radioactive iodine has been found in ocean water near the plant at 3,355 times the regulatory limit on Tuesday, CNN reported. Monitoring data detected the I-131 isotope at excessive levels 330 metres away from one […] […]

A 5-year-old girl was in a critical condition last night after being caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting in England. The child was visiting relatives with her mother when she was hit in […] […]

SOUTH African police say they have arrested a top rugby player over three axe murders allegedly carried out in revenge for the gang-rape and subsequent HIV-infection of his daughter. The man, who played for the […] […]

A woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists were staying and accused Libyan soldiers of raping her is to be charged with defamation. “Accusing someone of a sex crime in a conservative […] […]