World/Local News

AUTHORITIES in the Philippines say death toll from Typhoon Nesat had risen to 35, and will likely climb further, with dozens of people missing two days after the storm walloped the country. Office of Civil […] […]

THREE foreign troops have died in a single bombing in Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force says, taking the death toll for the day to five. The three died in an improvised explosive device […] […]

ALREADY cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever. In less than a month, 126 people have died and more […] […]

CUBA has legalised the sale and purchase of cars for all citizens, another major step in the communist-run island’s economic transformation. The government announced the move in April, but sales have been on hold until […] […]

A US citizen has been charged with planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington. Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, was arrested and charged with the aerial bombing plot and […] […]

A lawyer for the promoter of Michael Jackson’s final concerts says the singer’s personal physician asked the company for life-saving equipment just days before the pop superstar’s death. Kathy Jorrie, who works for concert giant […] […]

The Nazi war criminal who invented the mobile gas chamber and used it to murder thousands of Jews was recruited by West German intelligence after World War II and tried unsuccessfully to spy on Cuba’s […] […]

A Coronation Street storyline depicting the rape of character Carla Connor has led to an 800 per cent increase in calls to Britain’s major rape crisis centre. The flagship centre for Rape Crisis in south […] […]

Jurors at the trial of the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson heard the pop star’s slurred words while he was on a powerful anesthetic, caught on tape weeks before his death. They also saw […] […]

FOR the 26 months that US man Josh Fattal was held captive in Iran, his mother and brother were ever-present voices calling for his release. But his father, Jacob Fattal, never said a word. It’s […] […]