World/Local News

PERUGIA, Italy – After three years in prison, Amanda Knox is returning to court for a second chance at freedom. The American student’s appeals trial opens Wednesday in this Medieval city, with lawyers hoping they […] […]

President Barack Obama has pledged the United States would defend South Korea after what the White House branded an outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbour. Yet with its options limited, the US sought […] […]

Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn said families of the 29 Pike River mine victims who perished in today’s second blast fell to the floor screaming and were in “absolute despair”, when they heard the news. […] […]

BRITAIN will cut the number of non-EU migrants allowed to work in the country by a fifth to a maximum of 21,700 a year, as it seeks to radically slash immigration levels. Home Secretary Theresa […] […]

SOUTH Korean F-16 fighter jets streaked over the island of Yeonpyeong yesterday after a North Korean artillery attack. The assault left buildings burning and at least two soldiers dead and brought the two Koreas to […] […]

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been reunited with a son she last saw a decade ago, in an emotional moment at the Yangon airport 10 days after she was […] […]

SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea fired barrages of artillery onto a South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least one marine after warning the South to halt military […] […]

A LAWYER for the provincial British Columbia Government is warning a judge that declaring polygamy a protected religious practice would make Canada the only Western country to allow multiple marriages. The British Columbia Supreme Court […] […]

THE Transportation Security Administration (TSA) apologised today to a bladder cancer survivor from Michigan who was recently humiliated during an aggressive pat-down that left him covered in his own urine. Thomas Sawyer, 61, said a […] […]

OAKLAND — Some passengers may choose to decline a full-body computer scan as they go through airport security Wednesday as part of National Opt-Out Day, a grass-roots protest against safety measures that officials say expedite […] […]