World/Local News

LONDON—Heavy rain and gales sparked floods and landslides in southwest England Wednesday, disrupting travel and trapping people in their homes. Police said they are dealing with a “major incident,” with flooding in several areas of […] […]

STOCKHOLM—Sweden’s immigration authority has criticized the European Court of Human Rights for being inefficient in handling complaints from Iraqi asylum-seekers. In a statement Wednesday The Swedish Migration Board said the European court has a big […] […]

More than seven months after Monica Beresford-Redman’s body was found in the sewer of an upscale Mexican resort, US authorities arrested her reality TV producer husband and plan to extradite him for trial. Bruce Beresford-Redman […] […]

THE tawny mixed-shepherd dog that came to be known as Target had survived the treacherous mountains of Afghanistan and seen action on an embattled American base. She was a veteran of countless fights with other […] […]

INDONESIA’S Mount Merapi volcano has killed 273 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 300,000 people forced to live in makeshift camps. “The Merapi death toll has reached 273 people. About […] […]

South Korean police say a 15-year-old boy has committed suicide after killing his mother in a fight over Internet games. Police official Jung Yo-il said yesterday that the student hanged himself. Jung said the boy’s […] […]

DUBLIN—Irish police say two children in Cork have been strangled by their father, who then burned himself to death in his car, while another man in neighboring Limerick has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing […] […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Fourteen people died in western Cambodia when their homemade tractor ran over an anti-tank mine left over from the country’s civil war in the 1980s, an official said Wednesday. The incident occurred Tuesday […] […]

ACCUSED arms dealer Viktor Bout arrived in New York from Thailand today as his wife claimed he was a pawn in a political game between the US and Russia. The Russian, who was extradited aboard […] […]

THE longest-serving prisoner on death row in Texas has died in his cell while awaiting a fourth sentencing trial. Ronald Curtis Chambers, 55, died after collapsing in his cell at a Dallas county jail. He […] […]