World/Local News

PAKISTANI Taliban have claimed responsibility for the latest attack on a NATO supply convoy in the southwest and vowed they would continue until US drone strikes are stopped. “We accept responsibility for the attacks on […] […]

ROSLYN, Wash.—A dozen young people—most of them women—were taken to hospitals after overdosing on an unknown substance that may have been slipped into their drinks at a house party in central Washington, police said Saturday. […] […]

ROME—Thousands of people bid farewell at an open-air funeral Saturday to a 15-year-old schoolgirl whose killing—announced to her mother on live TV—has shocked this nation. Sarah Scazzi disappeared Aug. 26 as she walked a short […] […]

IRAN says late October or early November would be a good time for nuclear talks with the six world powers, and claims it has put an end to Western espionage against its atomic facilities. “The […] […]

A MAN has been charged with the stabbing murder of his 12-year-old son in Sydney’s southwest. Police and emergency services went to a block of flats in Terminus Street, Liverpool, at about 4.45pm (AEDT) yesterday […] […]

THOUGH much in vogue among the political class in London and Washington, there is little appetite for “talking to the Taliban” in southern Afghanistan. Soldiers here prefer to shoot them. And there is no mistaking […] […]

SEVERAL thousand Serbs marched in the capital Belgrade overnight in protest against a planned gay pride parade. Participants ranged from families with children to young football supporters, some of whom gave fascist salutes and shouted […] […]

INDONESIAN police have taken into custody a former editor of the local edition of Playboy magazine who was sentenced to jail for indecency, so he can serve his punishment, a prosecutor said Saturday. Erwin Arnada, […] […]

NAIROBI, KENYA—Abdul Hassan waits like an expectant father as he tracks the escape. Ismael is on his way to the airport in Mogadishu. Ismael has arrived. Ismael’s plane has departed Somalia. He is at the […] […]

AJKA, HUNGARY—The Hungarian town of Kolontar near that toxic red sludge reservoir that flooded the area and killed at least seven people was evacuated Saturday over fears of a new leak of the dangerous heavy […] […]