World/Local News

STRASBOURG, France—The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia on Thursday for letting Moscow ban gay pride marches simply because the city’s then-mayor—who famously compared gays to the devil—and other officials disapproved of them. The […] […]

NAIROBI, Kenya—Save the Children says a British aid worker released by his captors Wednesday in Somalia has been flown to Kenya and reunited with his family. Save the Children spokeswoman Anna Ford says Frans Barnard […] […]

A PLANE crash that killed a British pilot and 19 others in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have been caused by an escaped crocodile. The aircraft plummeted to the ground when the animal, […] […]

FLINT, Michigan – Dried blood found on shoelaces and a new witness have led to additional murder charges against an alleged serial killer, who now is accused of killing three men in Michigan as part […] […]

A FORMER US football player may become the first American in 16 years to be caned in Singapore after he overstayed his visa. Kamari Charlton, who was a reserve tight end for Florida State from […] […]

BELLEVILLE — Col. Russell Williams, who Judge Robert Scott said today “will forever be remembered as a sadosexual serial killer,” has been sentenced to two concurrent life sentences with no possibility of parole for 25 […] […]

BEIJING—A pregnant woman in south China was detained, beaten and forced to have an abortion just a month before her due date because the baby would have violated the country’s one-child limit, her husband said […] […]

WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT Men should weep. They bruise women’s bodies, they humiliate us in the House of Commons, they expend great effort in keeping us pregnant, booting us away from the bigger salaries, they are […] […]

UNITED NATIONS – Women’s equality is still a dream in a world where there are currently 57 million more men, according to a UN report released Wednesday. “The World’s Women 2010” says women are living […] […]

IN ITS biggest arms deal ever, the US will sell up to $US60 billion worth of warplanes, helicopters and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, partly to help it counter Iran. The plan allows for the […] […]