World/Local News

Svetlana Raznatovic, one of Serbia’s most popular folk singers and widow of the Serbian warlord Arkan, is to face trial for allegedly stealing millions of euros from transfers of football players during her time as […] […]

THE scene of what was very nearly another crime against humanity by the Gaddafi regime lies inside a high-walled government compound where the southern fringes of Ajdabiya peter out into rocky desert. Hussam Matar, 50, […] […]

A COURT has ordered the race hate trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders to go ahead. The trial opened in October last year, but was abruptly halted three weeks later when the judges trying […] […]

A MAN suspected of being Umar Patek, most wanted of the al-Qa’ida-linked fugitives responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, has been arrested in Pakistan. Indonesian police are helping with the identification and have sent officers […] […]

BRITAIN and the United States are prepared to consider a swift exit of Colonel Gaddafi into exile. Coalition nations gather in London today to plot a future for Libya without him. The official position of […] […]

A DEFIANT President Barack Obama today said he had stopped a “massacre” in Libya, but warned trying to oust Muammar Gaddafi by force could repeat the carnage of Iraq. “As president, I refused to wait […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Islamist militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops traveling close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing 11 of them in an unusually bloody attack, a government official said. The dead included a colonel […] […]

The parents of the woman dragged by security men from a Tripoli hotel after alleging she had been raped by militiamen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi claimed today that she was being held hostage in the […] […]

President Barack Obama will today offer Congress and an anxious public his first detailed accounting of his rationale for United States military involvement in Libya and perhaps an answer to the burning question: what’s next? […] […]

CHINA’S Communist Party leaders have turned their sights on students with “radical thoughts” after locking up a key critic, Liu Xianbin, for 10 years. Peking University, China’s top tertiary institution, is planning to screen all […] […]