World/Local News

A 26-YEAR-OLD Belgian schoolteacher has been found guilty of killing her romantic rival by sabotaging her parachute in a skydiving love-triangle. Els Clottemans sat stony-faced as the jury’s verdict was read out following a trial […] […]

BRITISH taxpayers will have to work a year longer to earn a pension as one of the major surprises in the heaviest budget cuts in decades. The measures will slash 490,000 public sector jobs over […] […]

A US federal appeals court has granted the government’s request to temporarily maintain a ban on gays serving openly in the American military. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals suspended an […] […]

AN American man has pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and making threats against the writers of the popular South Park television show. Zachary Adam Chesser, from Virginia, faces a maximum […] […]

BAGHDAD—An American soldier was charged Wednesday with killing two fellow U.S. troops and wounding a third after an argument last month in a former Iraqi insurgent stronghold turned deadly. Army Spc. Neftaly Platero was charged […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—An Iranian-American businessman freed after more than two years in an Iranian prison on accusations of passing money to a rebel group claimed Wednesday that officials in Tehran have urged him to prove his […] […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Rights groups lobbied the International Criminal Court on Wednesday for and against a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a state by the tribunal. The court’s prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is mulling whether […] […]

OCTOBER 10, 2010 was designated as the World Day against the Death Penalty. As claimed, there are now 139 countries that abandoned the death penalty, which excludes the Christian states of the Caribbean. The forecast […] […]

When Col. David Russell Williams finally folded, he felt not for his victims but for his wife, wishing to minimize the harm of being married to a sexual predator and serial killer. Later, in jail, […] […]

More than three hours into his interrogation, when Col. Russell Williams knew he was caught, he worried about what was happening to his wife and their “brand new house.” Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth, part of […] […]