World/Local News

A specialized ship began laying an undersea fiber-optic cable Saturday between Venezuela and Cuba, a connection that will dramatically improve Cuba’s telephone and internet services. Officials of the two countries launched the project in a […] […]

HARTFORD, Connecticut – A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probation violation charge yesterday, days after a widely publicised reunion […] […]

A DELTA Air Lines pilot was jailed for six months by a UK court for turning up drunk in London to fly a transatlantic passenger plane, according to British media said today. George La Perle, […] […]

TRANSNATIONAL crime gangs are trafficking a growing number of Chinese women to Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa where they are forced into prostitution, a Chinese newspaper said today. The official China Daily cited a senior […] […]

A BRITISH security contractor has told an Iraqi court he was acting in self-defence when he shot two co-workers, including an Australian, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in […] […]

A GUNMAN has opened fire inside a Detroit police station, wounding four officers before he was shot and killed by police. The gunman walked in through the precinct’s revolving door shortly after 4pm local time […] […]

He worked his way from typical Kiwi beginnings to become a top-flight Middle East financier earning up to $1 million a year. But as Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison cell, […] […]

The sole US manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas – a move that could delay executions across the United States. Over the past several months, a […] […]

Two Canadian businessmen who were caught up in the deepening diplomatic spat between Ottawa and the U.A.E. are back home in Toronto. Darius Mosun and his business partner were stuck at the Abu Dhabi airport […] […]

ISLAMABAD—A Pakistani actress castigated for appearing to cuddle with an Indian actor on a reality show lashed out at a Muslim cleric who had criticized her during a widely watched television exchange this week. The […] […]