World/Local News

Jamaica – A 24-year-old Nigerian student accused of raping a five-year-old girl was yesterday denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The Nigerian, who is reportedly in the island attending […] […]

Tornadoes fuelled by unusually warm air pummelled the South and Midwest United States on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. Forecasters said storms could hit along a stretch from near Chicago […] […]

BAGHDAD—The latest bloody attack on Iraq’s Christians was brutal in its simplicity. Militants left a bomb on the doorstep of the home of an elderly Christian couple and rang the doorbell. When Fawzi Rahim, 76, […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Health officials in Jamaica say a dead baby found just outside the island’s largest maternity hospital was not a patient there. The chairman for the South East Regional Health Authority is disputing a police […] […]

SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea on Saturday welcomed the new year with a push for better ties with rival South Korea, warning that war “will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust.” Despite calls in its annual […] […]

VLADIMIR Putin will tease Russia and the rest of the world for most of this year with a political burlesque over whether he intends to reclaim the presidency. He will flash occasional glimpses of his […] […]

INDONESIAN suspects and convicts are routinely tortured by police and prison wardens to obtain confessions or information, a report claims. Beatings, intimidation, burnings and rape were so commonplace that they were considered the norm, with […] […]

AN illiterate young woman from a village in southern Afghanistan has travelled to a vast city decorated with brightly lit evergreen trees and giant pictures of men and women in tightly fitted clothing. Bibi Aisha, […] […]

A US missile strike killed eight alleged militants in northwest Pakistan on the final day of a year that has seen a major escalation in drone attacks targeting insurgents flowing into neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence […] […]

A last-ditch effort to keep a Mexican teenager in Canada failed Friday as a federal judge dismissed a request to stay the teenager’s deportation order. Daniel Garcia, 18, is set to be deported back to […] […]