World/Local News

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI denounced “terrorist ideologies” that spur violence in God’s name as he opened a meeting Monday of bishops from around the Middle East. Benedict said such ideologies were based on false gods […] […]

POLICE have detained the director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed at least eight people when it burst from its reservoir last week, Hungary’s prime minister said. […] […]

THE cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse in the Hungarian town of Devecser yesterday. Engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge […] […]

CHRISTOPHER Hitchens, one of the most important journalists in the English-speaking world, is of two minds about the Islamic Arab world. Or, rather, for him it is divided in two – the Palestinians and all […] […]

Caribbean societies are reportedly being devastated by the highest rates of violent crime in the world. According to the United Nations, Bahamians, Jamaicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans and Trinidadians are four times more likely to die […] […]

NELSON Mandela says he isn’t saint and shouldn’t be viewed as such. In a new book that purports to show the private of South Africa’s first black president, Mr Mandela, 92, says he suffered from “weaknesses, errors […] […]

A COURT has cleared two Iraqi men accused of taking part in the murder of six British soldiers, saying there was no eyewitnesses to link the men to the killings. The case has been closely […] […]

A Somali-born Canadian deported from the United States for giving material support to Al Qaeda is considering making Toronto his home, his lawyer says. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 37, was waiting Saturday for his American wife […] […]

ANGRY claims that Islam is ‘dumbing down’ Germany have shocked its nation’s leaders. The distinctly multicultural German football team that humiliated England in the World Cup was feted at home as the emblem of a […] […]