World/Local News

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will continue his fight against extradition to Sweden where he is under investigation for alleged sex crimes. The 39-year-old Australian is due to appear in a London court today as preparations […] […]

PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has warned against showing weakness to “barbaric” terrorists, after two Frenchmen died in a failed French bid to free them from al-Qa’ida-linked militants in Africa. The French president accepted condolences from US […] […]

A FORMER top US politician has been sentenced to three years in prison for a scheme to influence elections that has already cost him his job and millions in legal fees. The sentence overnight comes […] […]

JUBA, SUDAN—How do you get a long-suffering but little-known slice of Africa on the White House agenda and onto worldwide TV screens? George Clooney knows how. Humble, self-effacing and dressed for safari, the Hollywood star […] […]

McDonald’s is being accused of homophobia after it blocked gay websites from its new free Wi-Fi service at its restaurants. People trying to access the lifestyle website GayNZ.com discovered they could not find the site, […] […]

TUCSON, Ariz.—At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league baseball. Her patriotism was inspired by a tragedy on her birth date—Sept. […] […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — Piece by piece, details of the weekend rampage in Tucson are beginning to emerge: The heartbreaking tales of people slain on a sun-splashed morning, the courage of those who overpowered the gunman […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI baptized 21 newborns in an intimate ceremony in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday that marked the end of the Christmas season. Standing under Michelangelo’s magnificent “Last Judgment” fresco, the pope poured […] […]

LONDON—It’s the first ballot box test of Britain’s unlikely coalition government—a special election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans […] […]

SOUTH Korea has rejected North Korea’s latest offer of dialogue, saying the communist country must be judged on its deeds rather than its words. The North made what it called a formal proposal Saturday for […] […]