World/Local News

TRAPPED Chilean miner Edison Pena has prepared for Sunday’s New York City Marathon like no other competitor. Pena ran each morning and afternoon in steel-tipped electrician’s boots that he cut down to ankle-high shoes, back […] […]

ACAPULCO, Mexico—Police recovered 19 bodies Wednesday in a mass grave identified in a narco-video as the burial site for 20 men who were kidnapped a month ago in the Pacific coast city of Acapulco. Police […] […]

YOUTUBE has reportedly withdrawn videos featuring calls by Yemen-based radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for a holy war. The American-born Awlaki has been cited as a catalyst for terrorist attacks and was charged on Tuesday […] […]

A Scotland Yard firearms officer is being investigated after it was alleged that he inserted song titles into his evidence at the inquest on a barrister shot dead by police. Mark Saunders died after a […] […]

AID boats bringing food and medical equipment to the tsunami-devastated Mentawai islands in Indonesia have been stranded by huge storms. As the army delivered its first shipment of aid, a massive storm system that has […] […]

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama said Wednesday that voters frustrated by the pace of economic recovery dictated a Republican takeover of the House in midterm elections, adding, “As president I take responsibility” for a failure to restore […] […]

Admitted to assisting man enter UK under false identity A British social worker has been charged with facilitation after sponsoring a Jamaican male to enter the United Kingdom on two different application forms in two […] […]

ALMOST a dozen parcel-bombs addressed to European leaders and embassies have been found in three European cities. The wave of attacks was blamed on domestic leftist extremists. Small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and […] […]

DAVID Cameron has insisted that British sovereignty has been strengthened by the historic defence accord with France. This was despite Conservative unease that he had surrendered military independence. The British Prime Minister hailed the deal […] […]

Supporters of an Iranian woman facing the death penalty for adultery say that the sentence could be carried out in the next 24 hours, after her prison received authorisation to execute her. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, […] […]