World/Local News

MOZAMBIQUE’S capital endured a second day of deadly rioting over rising food prices yesterday as the UN warned that the effects of a global spike in the cost of staples would hit the world’s poor […] […]

A SENIOR Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, has dismissed the Holocaust as a new “superstition” for the West in a blistering attack. “The Holocaust is nothing but superstition, but Zionists say that people […] […]

ONE of the money men behind the developer of the Ground Zero mosque was sued for allegedly ripping off an insurance company for nearly $1.8 ($1.97) million Hisham Elzanaty, who owns medical companies that operate […] […]

ANGRY protesters threw objects at Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair as he arrived at the first public signing session to promote his memoirs today in the Irish capital Dublin. Around 200 noisy protesters had […] […]

TWO British police officers have been suspended for confiscating a sports car from its driver and then crashing it. The driver of the turbo-charged, four-wheel drive Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII was stopped in the early […] […]

LACKING enough of the anesthetic essential to the cocktail of lethal drugs administered during executions, several US states are being forced to postpone the procedure until early next year. At the heart of the drug […] […]

MINSK, Belarus—A popular opposition website in authoritarian Belarus says its editor was found dead amid an ongoing crackdown on government critics and independent media. Natalya Radina of the Charter97 website said 36-year-old Oleg Bebenin’s body […] […]

CALGARY—A girl under the age of 18 was held against her will at the same time as Dustin LaFortune, court documents revealed Friday in a disturbing case of alleged torture and forcible confinement. LaFortune was […] […]

MONTERREY, MEXICO—Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country’s drug war, authorities said Friday. […] […]