World/Local News

VIENNA—Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, according to a document shared with The Associated […] […]

WASHINGTON—Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will work hard to try to strike a long-lasting peace deal with Israel, but that Israel must agree to a full freeze on all its settlement activity in Palestinian […] […]

Mygripe About 30,000 residents and visitors have been ordered to evacuate an island on the North Carolina coast, as Hurricane Earl swings towards mainland USA. Only about 4,800 people on the Outer Banks island are […] […]

News – POLICE shot dead a gunman and freed three people he had taken hostage on today in a dramatic four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington. “Our tactical units moved in” when […] […]

News – AN ARMED man is holding a small number of people hostage at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters building in Maryland, in the United States. The man, in possession of an apparent explosive device, had concerns with […] […]

News – PARIS Hilton was banned today from two Wynn resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, and her boyfriend was dismissed as a nightclub partner following their arrests in a vehicle that police said reeked […] […]

Mygripe THE decomposing body of British code-breaker Gareth Williams was found padlocked shut in a holdall in a bath in his London flat, an inquest was told. The cause of Mr Williams’ death has yet […] […]

Mygripe BRITISH Foreign Secretary William Hague said that his special adviser Christopher Myers had resigned because of “untrue and malicious” allegations about the pair supposedly having a relationship. The announcement came after Mr Hague had […] […]