World/Local News

The US embassy in London and lord mayor Boris Johnson were among a high-profile list of potential targets of a suspected terror cell in Britain. The stock exchange, Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster […] […]

THE Pentagon’s multi-billion-dollar operation to supply food and military equipment to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is run in chaos and corruption. American officials are taking millions of dollars in bribes and a local […] […]

AN Israeli passenger train has caught fire, injuring almost 50 people, in an apparent accident north of Tel Aviv, emergency services said. The train carrying 400 passengers was brought to a halt after the blaze […] […]

FALMOUTH, JAMAICA—Jamaican police have charged an Ontario man with attempted murder after his wife was found in their car with her throat slashed near the resort area of Montego Bay. A police officer in the […] […]

A decade ago, Winston Salandy proposed to Jennifer Malcolm at York County Hospital with the question, “Will you marry me?” formed on a Scrabble board. On Christmas Day, at 3:15 a.m., Salandy said farewell to […] […]

DEFENCE lawyers for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death can have half the residue left in syringes and other medical items found in the star’s bedroom for testing by a private laboratory, prosecutors say. […] […]

BRITISH music star Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have welcomed their first child, Us Magazine reported. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born on Christmas day in California via a surrogate. “We are […] […]

WHILE Israeli troops and Palestinian militants traded threats over the Gaza border, surprising messages of conciliation were issued from the Middle East. The new head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency reportedly apologised to British officials […] […]

THE White House has joined European criticism of the conviction of jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on new fraud charges, calling the action a “selective application of justice”. Khodorkovsky and co-accused Platon Lebedev, already in […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israel says it won’t participate in the 10th anniversary commemoration of a U.N. conference on racism that singled out Israel for criticism and likened Zionism to racism. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the […] […]