World/Local News

The American Ambassador to Tripoli has been recalled for consultations at the United States State Department and might not be allowed to return to his post because of comments about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that […] […]

WASHINGTON – A package an official said was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited today at a Washington postal facility, a day after fiery packages sent to Maryland’s governor and transportation secretary burned […] […]

LONDON – British transport authorities have warned aviation officials that al-Qaida is considering an attack against a UK airport or other airline industry target in a threat described as credible, the BBC reported yesterday. The […] […]

THE US is to send a “mini-surge” of 1400 additional marines to Afghanistan to help preserve gains made against the Taliban . The extra troops will keep up the momentum once the fighting season resumes […] […]

A FORMER British politician has been jailed for 18 months for making false expenses claims while he was an MP. David Chaytor, 61, is the first UK politician to be convicted and sentenced over a […] […]

A US woman with “spying technology or a microphone” hidden in her teeth has been detained by Iranian customs authorities. The woman was captured in the border town of Nordouz in northwest Iran, the Iran […] […]

A US federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit alleging the wildly-successfully Harry Potter books were plagiarised from a story from a little-known British author. The suit filed in New York against the publisher of the […] […]

JURORS have been shown a video of an eight-year-old boy accidentally shooting himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a 2008 gun fair in the US. The video, taken by the boy’s father, shows Christopher […] […]

OTTAWA — When he headed home after work in Kandahar, Ghulam Wali Noori would never take the same route twice. As an interpreter working with the Canadian military, he was a prime target of insurgents […] […]

OTTAWA—The government of embattled Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has announced it is expelling the Canadian and British ambassadors in Abidjan. Ottawa, however, is ignoring the expulsion order. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has issued […] […]