World/Local News

PALESTINIAN police say they have freed a young woman whose father kept her locked in the bathroom of their West Bank house for around a decade. Spokesman Adnan Damiri says the 20-year-old woman was in […] […]

A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group’s deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror […] […]

Doctors’ leaders escalated their dispute with the Government over planned changes to their pensions yesterday after a British Medical Association survey showed almost two out of three would back some form of industrial action. But […] […]

Expensive cars, cash, shotguns and artworks are among items seized by police today when they raided 10 Auckland properties connected to allegations of international copyright infringement being investigated by the FBI. Four people were arrested […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica’s government says that about 500 Cuban health workers will work on the island for the next two years to bolster understaffed clinics and hospitals. Health Minister Fenton Ferguson said Thursday that 117 doctors […] […]

DUBLIN—Two bombs planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated Thursday night in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, but no injuries were reported as police quickly evacuated the area following phoned warnings. Martina Anderson, a […] […]

LONDON—The head of Interpol is in London for talks with security officials after raising concerns about passport checks in Europe. Ron Noble, secretary-general of the international police agency based in France, has criticized European countries […] […]

SYRIA’S powerful allies in Russia are vowing to block any Western attempts to intervene militarily in Syria as Damascus fights off an increasingly chaotic 10-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. The support came as Assad […] […]

AN Orlando judge has ordered Casey Anthony to answer questions from a volunteer search group which has sued her for allegedly providing false information as members helped look for her two-year old daughter in 2008. […] […]

A CALIFORNIAN woman filmed herself on her iPad smoking methamphetamine before shooting her two young children, their father and a cousin and then committing suicide, according to reports. Aide Mendez, 23, killed her two children […] […]