World/Local News

KARACHI, PAKISTAN—A cargo plane crashed into a housing complex in Pakistan’s largest city soon after takeoff Sunday, setting off a huge blaze and killing all eight Russian crew on board, the civil aviation authority said. […] […]

A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for drowning his wife in a toilet in 1999. Doug Plude was accused of poisoning 28-year-old Genell Plude with migraine medicine, drowning her in the […] […]

President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said. […] […]

US and Mexican police have unearthed a 700m-long drug tunnel under their border and seized more than 20 tonnes of marijuana, the second such major drugs bust this month. At least eight people were arrested, […] […]

South Korea laid to rest today two marines killed in an artillery attack by North Korea at a tear-filled funeral where top military brass grimly vowed to avenge their deaths. The Prime Minister, armed forces […] […]

A teenaged victim of Somalia’s war is another step closer to safety this week and holding out hope that he’ll find it in Canada. Ismael Khalif Abdulle, the 18-year-old double amputee whose story inspired one […] […]

CAIRO—Egyptian activists held several rallies across the country Friday to protest police violence, especially against candidates running in this weekend’s parliamentary election. The campaign for Sunday’s election has been marred by one of the most […] […]

THE South’s new defence minister is expected to restore trust in the military. NORTH Korea is believed to have fired more artillery shells near Yeonpyeong Island last night in a training drill after warning that […] […]

FORMULA One boss Bernie Ecclestone has suffered a head injury when muggers robbed him of jewellery in London, police say. It comes just weeks after he said only “simple” people got attacked in the city. […] […]

AN ELDERLY war veteran who kept loaded guns at his bedside has been arrested for threatening to kill President Barack Obama. Michael Bowden, from the southern state of South Carolina, told a nurse during a […] […]