World/Local News

JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES are facing a legal dilemma as they wrestle with how to treat victims of human trafficking when they are rescued. O’Neil Francis, crown counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers, said the National Task […] […]

Italian prosecutors urged an appeals court on Friday, local time, to uphold the murder conviction of Amanda Knox despite what they called a media campaign in support of the American student, asking the jurors to […] […]

In one of the bloodiest days of Yemen’s uprising, government troops backed by snipers and shelling attacked a square full of Yemeni protesters and battled with pro-opposition forces in the capital, killing at least 40 […] […]

THE two leaders of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have called for the immediate resumption of stalled Middle East peace talks. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both made powerful appeals to an […] […]

NEW allegations about the phone-hacking scandal have hit News International, the British subsidiary of News Corp, with claims of more victims and fresh legal rows. It has been revealed that former News of the World […] […]

THIRTEEN people are dead and nine missing after a boat sank off Indonesia’s East Java province. “Thirteen people were killed in a boat accident off the coast of Raas island. Nine people are still missing,” […] […]

INDIA tested a medium-range nuclear-capable missile along its eastern coast today, an official said, as part of the nation’s efforts to build up its atomic deterrent. The indigenous surface-to-surface Shourya missile was fired from a […] […]

A 58-YEAR-OLD Italian woman became Italy’s second post-menopausal new mother in a week after giving birth to twins in Milan, days after an Italian court criticised older couples who have babies. “We are very happy, […] […]

PAKISTAN issued a blunt warning to the US yesterday that it risked breaking the alliance, following accusations by America’s most senior military officer that the ISI spy agency directed recent Haqqani network terror attacks in […] […]

JULIAN Assange admits to being an autistic “chauvinist pig” in an unauthorised autobiography published yesterday. The WikiLeaks founder also rails against his former media partners, calling The New York Times and The Guardian “greedy, reckless, […] […]