World/Local News

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Police in Denmark and Sweden have arrested five men who allegedly planned to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of […] […]

NEW YORK – Stranded passengers lost their tempers and got into yelling matches with airline employees at John F. Kennedy International Airport yesterday after delays stymied their plans yet again. About 100 people at a […] […]

JERUSALEM—An Israeli court has convicted former President Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape. Thursday’s conviction means Katsav will face a minimum of four years in prison. The verdict marks the climax of a four-and-a-half […] […]

WASHINGTON—American troops are focusing on fighting Taliban militants and defending vulnerable towns on Afghan soil, as it has become practically impossible to stop insurgents from slipping across Afghanistan’s vast border with Pakistan, a senior U.S. […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—NATO and Afghan police say insurgents have fired two rockets into the main U.S. base in Afghanistan. Master Sgt. Jason Haag, a spokesman for NATO in Kabul, says that Bagram Air Field received “two […] […]

MANILA, Philippines—Officials say an 80-year-old woman has died and her son is missing after they were swept away by floodwaters in eastern Philippines, where landslides and flooding have prompted some 4,000 people to evacuate to […] […]

DANISH police have evacuated a building where one of five suspects in a plot to massacre staff at a newspaper was arrested, after finding what may be explosives. Denmark’s PET intelligence service earlier today said […] […]

COLOMBIA’S President has hailed the killing by police of Pedro Guerrero, a notorious drug lord known as “The Knife” who had a $US2.5 million American bounty on his head. Authorities say the former paramilitary, known […] […]

BAGHDAD—Police commander Lt. Col. Shamil al-Jabouri knew Al Qaeda wanted him dead. He was renowned in the tense northern city of Mosul for his relentless pursuit of the terror group, and insurgents had tried at […] […]

With a heavy bandage around her neck, Cathy-Lee Martin of Ajax testified in a Jamaican court Tuesday that her husband tried to slit her throat while on vacation. She and her husband, Paul Martin, were […] […]