World/Local News

Amnesty International has called on Canadian authorities to arrest and prosecute George W Bush, saying the former US president authorised “torture” as he directed the US-led war on terror. Bush is expected to attend an […] […]

Eight people have been killed and one critically injured after a gunman opened fire in a packed hair salon in a small California beach town, police said. Six people were killed at the scene, while […] […]

THE United States says it has busted a plot conceived at high levels of Iran’s revolutionary leadership to kill the Saudi envoy to Washington in a major terror attack, and vowed to hold Tehran to […] […]

VIETNAM’S worst flooding in more than a decade has killed 34 people, mostly children, in the country’s in southern Mekong Delta region. The floods have submerged more than 60,000 homes and caused an estimated 950 […] […]

ATTACKERS have killed three UN peacekeepers in an ambush at a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur conflict zone, the United Nations says. Six peacekeepers were wounded, three seriously, in the attack yesterday at the Zam Zam […] […]

SEVEN members of an American family, including a four-year-old girl, survived 20 hours at sea after their boat capsized during a fishing trip off the Florida Keys. Rough waves flipped the boat four hours into […] […]

AN American woman who faked a pregnancy and panicked as her supposed due date grew near attacked a pregnant mother and cut her full-term foetus from her womb, killing the mother and baby, according to […] […]

EGYPT’S military rulers have ordered a speedy probe into clashes that killed 25 people, mostly Coptic Christians, as the cabinet held crisis talks amid fears of wider sectarian unrest. The Supreme Council of the Armed […] […]

BURMA is to grant an amnesty to more than 6300 prisoners, state media announced today, without saying whether political detainees would be included. The news came just hours after a government-appointed human rights panel called […] […]

The Wall Street protests against economic inequality and corporate greed that targeted the nerve centre of American capitalism are no longer merely a New York phenomenon. At the weekend, from Seattle and Los Angeles on […] […]