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Police searched for a baby girl during the early hours of Friday before finding both the baby and the woman who allegedly abducted the child. The 1-month-old child’s parents alerted police to the disappearance just […] […]

The Catholic school teacher accused of trying to kill his wife while on a Caribbean vacation sits in a Jamaican police holding cell “traumatized by everything,” his lawyer says. Paul Martin, 43, who teaches Grades […] […]

HAITI’S cholera death toll has soared in recent days with 3,333 people dead, official figures show. The figures, released yesterday, included a one-day record high for the daily number of fatalities since the outbreak erupted […] […]

AN Australian investigation has unearthed an international network of pedophile parents who abuse their own children and share images of the assaults. The operation by Queensland police, Task Force Argos, has led to the break-up […] […]

A young Toronto woman who won science fairs, was a papal visit delegate and volunteered for the Liberals has become tabloid fodder in New York over a nasty divorce dispute with her husband involving their […] […]

BEIJING—A former China official tasked with investigating corruption has been executed for taking more than $4.7 million in bribes. The state-run Xinhua News Agency says Zeng Jinchun was shot to death Thursday. He was the […] […]

THE discovery of the world’s biggest offshore gasfield in 10 years is set to make Israel energy-independent for the first time. This will boost the Jewish state’s status as the Middle East’s pre-eminent power. Tests […] […]

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s US-allied ruling party suffered a fresh blow to its fragile hold on power yesterday, when a coalition partner said it will quit the cabinet, deepening the nation’s political turmoil and potentially distracting […] […]

After detectives confirmed yesterday that Joanna Yeates was strangled, her father said that he believes the police know more about the landscape architect’s death than they are telling the family. Ms Yeates, 25, who was […] […]

The presenters of motoring show Top Gear have caused controversy after dressing in burqas while filming an episode in the Middle East. Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond disguised themselves as women in a Christmas show […] […]