World/Local News

EUROPE’S a continent living in growing fear of its outsiders. A YEAR after voting to ban minarets, the direct-election diehards of Switzerland have struck out again at their foreign population. Residents born outside of Switzerland […] […]

WIKILEAKS’ main server in France has gone offline, preventing many users from accessing the US State Department cables and other documents the site has posted online. The president of the Swiss Pirate Party, which controls […] […]

LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains free while his website spews daily embarrassment and potential diplomatic damage to the United States, his liberty protected for now by the slowly grinding wheels of the law. Assange, who […] […]

LAST May, a steady stream of electronic traffic was sent more than 6,000 miles from an American military base near Baghdad to the home of a young computer hacker in Carmichael, northern California. The messages […] […]

BRITISH airports are to scrap the ban on liquids in hand luggage from April and implement a series of security reforms after protests from passengers and airline operators over excessive checks. Current restrictions on liquids […] […]

A RUSSIAN working in the House of Commons is to be deported from Britain after security services arrested her on suspicion of espionage. Katia Zatuliveter, who works for Mike Hancock, a Liberal Democrat MP for […] […]

A STING of bombings killed 17 people across Iraq’s capital yesterday, including Iranian pilgrims near a revered shrine and shoppers at a Shi’ite neighbourhood market. The attacks – several roadside bombs and cars packed with […] […]

MANAMA, Bahrain—Two things about the WikiLeaks effect on U.S. foreign relations were apparent on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first overseas trip since the publication of a trove of secret State Department messages. […] […]

Members of the United States Special Forces have been disciplined after an investigation into the death of Linda Norgrove, a British aid worker in Afghanistan, revealed she was killed by a grenade thrown by her […] […]

A SCHOOLBOY whose tormentors made a DVD depicting him being shot was bashed by bullies after a magistrate overturned a protection order. The distraught family of the victim have now had to sell their house […] […]