World/Local News

A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in US history has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as […] […]

A FRUIT vendor in northern China murdered his wife and eight others in a jealous rage because he feared she was cheating on him. Qin Changcheng, 32, has been arrested and confessed to killing his […] […]

BROKEN beams and mounds of clay lay in heaps where a four-story residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, killing at least seven people and highlighting the dangers of housing for the poor. Residents said […] […]

A STATION wagon packed with civilians struck a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, killing 16, 11 of them children, officials said. The vehicle was travelling in Herat province’s Shindand district when it hit the bomb, […] […]

PROSECUTORS have told jurors that Michael Jackson was killed by the actions of his personal physician, who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate safeguards and botched recovery efforts when he found the singer unconscious. Defence […] […]

A SAUDI woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for defying a ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom, an activist says, while another woman has been arrested in the capital. Sheima Jastaniah was […] […]

A UK appeals court began hearing the first legal challenges yesterday to the lengthy prison sentences handed out following the August riots, including the convictions of two youths sentenced to four years for inciting riots […] […]

HEAVILY armed anti-Gaddafi fighters have tightened their siege of the ousted Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte, as hundreds of terrified civilians poured out of the Mediterranean coastal city. Fleeing residents today spoke of dwindling supplies […] […]

A 13-year-old girl suffocated after she was strapped down and doused with water by her father and a monk who were trying to expel an “evil spirit”, Japanese police and media reports said today. The […] […]

TWO Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city, officials said today. A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 arriving from New York and a Dragonair Airbus A330 from […] […]