World/Local News

JOSE Toledo had been told he looked like an Arab, but it hadn’t meant a great deal to him until last weekend. As the Chilean tourist walked through central Jerusalem, a group of youths set […] […]

US investigators said today they believe they have found the remains of a disabled Australian-born girl who was reported missing about a month ago in North Carolina. Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins said investigators matched […] […]

The Swedish royal family’s hitherto unblemished reputation as a model of regal respectability has been shattered by a book that portrays King Carl Gustav as an incorrigible philanderer with an insatiable appetite for sex parties […] […]

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has always seemed unruffled by the myriad unsuccessful plots to kill him. “I think I hold the dubious record of having been the target of more assassination attempts than any […] […]

TODAY the world’s most famous political prisoner will walk out of her dilapidated house and take her first steps as a free woman in more than seven years. To the roars of a crowd, she […] […]

AS former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel prepares to run for mayor of Chicago, a problem tenant is giving him more than he bargained for. Rob Halpin has not only refused to move […] […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan—The Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace laureates from the last four decades gathered Friday at a hotel a few miles from ground zero of the world’s first atomic bomb attack to support the […] […]

The murder of mobster Nicolo Rizzuto in front of his wife and daughter in his Montreal mansion was cruel even by the standards of the underworld, a Mafia expert says. “That’s so disrespectful,” said Antonio […] […]

A GERMAN World War II bomb has been made safe and removed from a city centre, police said today. Hundreds of people were evacuated when the device was discovered by builders in Plymouth city centre […] […]

The high-ranking Kremlin spy who sold out his compatriots to U.S. authorities is being hunted by a death squad, the Russian newspaper Kommersant has reported. The cracking of the Russian spy ring leading quiet lives […] […]