World/Local News

A winter weather colossus roared into America’s heartland yesterday, laying down a paralysing punch of dangerous ice and whiteout snow that served notice from Texas to Maine that the storm billed as the worst in […] […]

* One killed, almost 600 injured in violent clashes Thousands of supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo’s main square this morning (NZ time), raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other […] […]

Relatives of an Alabama woman who died during a 2003 honeymoon scuba diving trip in Australia were pleased when a Jefferson County judge set an early trial date for the capital murder charge against her […] […]

LONDON – England and Wales yesterday became the first countries in the world to release street-by-street information on every crime and act of anti-social behaviour reported to police. A website, police.uk, which went live yesterday, […] […]

THE turmoil in Egypt spread to Jordan last night as King Abdullah sacked his government and appointed a new prime minister, Maruf Bakhit, with orders to carry out “true political reforms”. The king’s edict followed […] […]

AN American woman who called herself “JihadJane” has pleaded guilty to terror-related charges stemming from a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Colleen LaRose simply replied “yes” when she was asked by US […] […]

JIMANI, Dominican Republic—The Dominican Republic has deported thousands of illegal immigrants in recent weeks, sowing fear among Haitians living in the country and prompting accusations its government is using a cholera outbreak as a pretext […] […]

BENJAMIN Netanyahu has warned of the dangers of an Iranian-style regime led by Islamic extremists arising out of the political chaos sweeping through Egypt. “In a time of chaos, an organised Islamic group can take […] […]

PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak’s last chance of survival appeared to vanish last night when the all-powerful Egyptian Army declared that it would not use force to crush the popular uprising against his regime. In a dramatic […] […]

US hiker Sarah Shourd, freed on bail last year, has been summoned for trial in Iran along with her two American friends who remain in custody, the prosecutor general said today. “Sarah Shourd, one of […] […]