World/Local News

A CAR bomb has torn through a government compound in Mogadishu, killing more than 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia’s Shebab rebels in their five-year insurgency. Witnesses described the carnage as the worst […] […]

THE Lockerbie bomber has used his first interview in two years to claim that his role in the atrocity was exaggerated, to distance himself from the Gaddafi regime and to ask that he should be […] […]

THE US Supreme Court has slapped down a new bid seeking to show that Barack Obama was ineligible to be elected president of the United States in the 2008 White House race. The nation’s highest […] […]

US student Amanda Knox has been acquitted of murder and sexual assault by an Italian court after breaking down in court and pleading for mercy in a dramatic end to her four-year legal battle. She […] […]

AMANDA Knox has rejected the “completely unjust” accusations in her murder appeal trial in Italy today, saying she was paying with her life for a crime she did not commit. “The accusations are completely unjust […] […]

TWO inmates have been charged with murdering a convicted child rapist found “disembowelled” in his cell at an English prison. Mitchell Harrison, 23, who had been jailed for the rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was […] […]

ENGLISH students should be free to quit school when just 14 years old, the country’s former chief schools inspector said. Sir Chris Woodhead – who now heads the company behind some of London’s premier private […] […]

THREE people were shot dead and three more injured at a warehouse party in the US state of California, when up to 400 people converged on the event after seeing promotions on the internet. Police […] […]

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry came under pressure Sunday to explain why his family’s hunting retreat was called “Niggerhead” and why the racially offensive name remained painted on a giant stone there for years. The […] […]

SOME 35,000 people have turned out in Manchester to demonstrate against government budget cuts as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives opened their annual conference. The march in the northwest England city was organised by the […] […]