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A SINGER known for his 1990 chart-topping love song has been hauled off a Massachusetts stage and arrested on charges of owing $US420,000 ($431,056) in unpaid child support. Steven Bernard Hill of Las Vegas was […] […]

THE US is bracing for possible revenge terrorist attacks after a CIA-led airstrike in Yemen killed US-born radical cleric and al-Qa’ida figure Anwar al-Awlaki. The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert yesterday that warned […] […]

TO see the horses grazing serenely at a farm on the outskirts of Tripoli last week, you would never have guessed the terrible confession being made in a makeshift interrogation room in one of its […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for disrespectful remarks he made to two female lawmakers but rejected opposition claims that he has a problem with women. Cameron acknowledged that he “screwed up” during recent exchanges […] […]

LONDON—British police have charged three more suspects with the murder of three men run over by a car as they protected their neighborhood from looters during summer riots. The charges bring to eight the number […] […]

MANCHESTER, England—Jobs have been lost, libraries shuttered, sailors sacked and street lights dimmed—Britain is beginning to taste the bitter medicine David Cameron warned was necessary to fix its wounded economy. It’s left some wondering: Is […] […]

Thousands of schoolchildren went on the rampage after rumours spread that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government wants to take away a large slice of their school holidays. Protests that began in northern France spread to the […] […]

A Californian driver lay injured in a remote ravine for six days near a body in another crashed car. David Lavau, 68, survived by eating ants and leaves and drinking creek water, a doctor said. […] […]

ABOUT 400 anti-Wall Street protesters have been arrested in New York when they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, forcing authorities to shut it down for hours, police said. Anti-Wall Street activists first occupied a […] […]

FIERCE fighting is raging in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte as new regime forces press their campaign to capture it from determined loyalists of Libya’s former leader. As military casualties mount, a rocket has killed two […] […]