World/Local News

A surge of searing gas raced down the sides of Mount Merapi on Friday, smothering entire villages as it killed or seriously burned those caught in its path. The death toll after the volcano’s largest […] […]

A HOLOCAUST-ERA mass grave containing the bodies of an estimated 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops has been discovered in a forest, researchers say, offering further evidence of the country’s involvement in wartime crimes. The […] […]

TOKYO—Tokyo is investigating the possible leak of a video showing a collision between Japanese coast guard vessels and a Chinese fishing boat off disputed islands that spiked tensions between the Asian neighbors, Japan’s foreign minister […] […]

While MPs in one house of the British parliament are wracked by budget woes, the apparent solution popped up Monday in the other. Lord James of Blackheath, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, curiously […] […]

Two thousand metres above Indonesia, smoke trailing from a shattered engine and with holes punched in his port wing, Richard Champion de Crespigny was an island of calm. The captain of Qantas flight QF32, responsible […] […]

LONDON—Britain on Thursday began requiring tighter screenings for some air cargo passing through the U.K. because of the recent mail bomb plot, an official said. Cargo originating from some cities in India, Qatar, Pakistan, Iran, […] […]

YOUNG neo-Nazi sympathisers have been loading up their MP3 players with poisonous songs and going to work or school tapping their feet to banned lyrics. A typical lyric is: “With six million down / that’s […] […]

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA— Qantas said faulty engine design or material failure were the most likely causes of an engine blowout on one of its Airbus A380 superjumbos, and confirmed Friday that pieces from the engine had […] […]

Hate preacher Abu Hamza has won an appeal against the Government’s attempts to strip him of his British nationality. A tribunal today ruled in favour of Hamza’s argument that such a move would render him […] […]

ONCE newly appointed US ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater settles in, one of her areas of focus will be fighting corruption in the island. At a press conference at the US embassy on Wednesday afternoon, […] […]