World/Local News

LAGOS, Nigeria—Artillery rockets like those often used by insurgents in Afghanistan were found to have filled an illegal arms shipment intercepted at Nigeria’s busiest cargo port, raising security questions about the oil-rich nation before its […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Suspected American missiles hit a house in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Thursday, killing seven alleged militants—the latest strike in a ramped up campaign against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in the rugged tribal […] […]

Indonesia is struggling to recover today from the horrific one-two punch of natural disasters which struck the region. On Monday, an earthquake triggered a tsunami which looks to have killed more than 300 people, mostly […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Gunmen opened fire on a car wash in western Mexico on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, an official said. It was the third massacre in Mexico in less than a week. The gunmen […] […]

SEOUL, South Korea—A Korean-American missionary held captive in North Korea for six weeks after illegally crossing into the country late last year alleged Wednesday that his interrogators tortured him. Robert Park walked over a frozen […] […]

VATICAN CITY—The Vatican has urged Iraq to not carry out the death sentence meted out to former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and says it may intervene diplomatically to try to halt it. The 74-year-old […] […]

A HORRIFIC fall from a horse left a woman with such a severely broken neck she was forced to pick up her own head. Thea Maxfield, who runs a stud farm in Oxfordshire, England, suffered […] […]

BRITISH police are receiving new weapons and specialised training from the SAS to combat the threat of a Mumbai-style terrorist attack in Britain. Faced with growing terror threats involving urban areas, the hope is that […] […]

THE hunter became the hunted as public anger grew over the killing of Britain’s largest wild animal, a red deer stag known as the Emperor of Exmoor. The stag was killed on the edge of […] […]