World/Local News

Iran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites. The invitation is contained in a letter made available to The Associated Press. […] […]

Israel’s army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables show. “I am preparing […] […]

A 65-year-old woman froze to death after somehow being locked inside the fortress walls of an historic Swedish castle where she had attended a special New Year’s Eve mass, police say. The woman, who had […] […]

Cupid beware: Iran says it’s cracking down on the symbols of Valentine’s Day. The annual homage to romance on February 14 has become popular in recent years in Iran and other places in the Middle […] […]

BAGHDAD—A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car northeast of Baghdad, killing one passerby and injuring 33, police and hospital officials said. In two other, separate incidents Monday, a policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting […] […]

BARACK Obama has signed into law a bill to compensate emergency responders sickened in the rubble of the September 11 attacks, the White House has said. “We will never forget the selfless courage demonstrated by […] […]

A “perfect husband” left in a coma during a Kings Cross brawl has died after relatives made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support machine. The grief-stricken wife of Wilson Duque Castillo, 33, […] […]

SAKINEH Mohammadi Ashtiani — the Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning has caused international outrage — left prison yesterday to dine with her children and speak to the media. Her son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh […] […]

ISRAELI troops shot dead a Palestinian carrying a bottle at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus late yesterday, less than 48 hours after a female protester died after being teargassed. Palestinian officials […] […]

A SENIOR Iranian official has raised the possibility that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani could be spared execution by stoning for alleged adultery. Asked yesterday if the sentence could be commuted, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of the […] […]