World/Local News

Texas police have launched an investigation into an online video that shows a Texas family law judge profanely berating and repeatedly lashing his 16-year-old daughter with a belt. The nearly 8-minute video, which has been […] […]

US Marines badly wounded in Afghanistan may get a “lollipop” with a powerful pain killer from now on instead of the traditional shot of morphine, a Marine Corps spokesman said yesterday. The new treatment offers […] […]

AUSTRALIAN WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last night lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations. British High Court judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely said that Mr Assange, who was in […] […]

THOUSANDS of anti-capitalists have poured into the French Riviera city of Nice for a march against corporate greed ahead of the G20 summit in nearby Cannes, echoing protests worldwide. Shouting “People first, not finance!”, protesters […] […]

A freak October snowstorm in the United States knocked out power to more than 3.1 million homes and businesses across the northeast, with 60cm of snow falling in some areas at the weekend. The storm […] […]

A Taleban suicide bomber has rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armoured Nato bus on a busy road in Kabul, killing 17 people including a dozen Americans in the deadliest strike against the […] […]

AN Israeli air strike has killed a Gaza militant just hours after Islamic Jihad vowed to observe an Egyptian-brokered truce following a day of violence that killed 10. The spike in violence, which began when […] […]

A US drone strike today killed four militants in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region, known as a hotbed of Taliban insurgents near the Afghan border. The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove […] […]

VETERAN British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England aged 84. Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewellery and boundless enthusiasm for pop music […] […]

BEIRUT—Syrian troops shelled a restive district on Saturday and conducted sweeping raids, one day after security forces killed about 40 people in one of the deadliest crackdowns in months in the country’s uprising, activists said. […] […]