World/Local News

JAMES Murdoch is being recalled for another grilling before Britain’s Parliament after former News Corporation executives raised serious doubts about his role in the country’s tabloid phone hacking scandal. The committee of lawmakers investigating the […] […]

AMERICA’s top two intelligence officials say al-Qaeda is weaker and US intelligence agencies are smarter since the September 11 attacks 10 years ago, but the terrorists are nowhere near giving up. In his first week […] […]

A masked knifeman has stabbed a man to death before stealing his car, Scotland Yard said. Harjinder Singh Bhurji, 32, was sitting in his black Mercedes CLK coupe talking to a female friend when the […] […]

TALIBAN gunmen armed with suicide bombs and heavy weapons yesterday launched co-ordinated attacks in Kabul, targeting NATO’s headquarters, the US embassy and the Afghan intelligence agency. About five hours after the attack began just after […] […]

IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said two US hikers held on espionage charges since 2009 will be released “in two days” during an interview with NBC News to be broadcast today. The two US citizens, […] […]

THE number of people aged 100 or older in rapidly greying Japan has hit a record high for the 41st consecutive year. The Japan health ministry said 37 out of every 100,000 people in the […] […]

FIGHTERS loyal to the deposed Libyan leader mounted a surprise counter-attack on rebel forces yesterday, killing 17 guards at an oil refinery. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s troops used more than a dozen vehicles to attack the […] […]

GUNMEN ambushed a Pakistani school bus on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar today, killing four children and a driver in a hail of bullets, police said. The attack happened in the Matani […] […]

A US intelligence monitoring service says Al-Qa’ida has released a video marking the anniversary of 9/11 which features unreleased footage of slain leader Osama bin Laden. SITE Monitoring Service said the 62-minute video titled “The […] […]

AN explosion at a French nuclear site killed at least one person and injured four more, the state nuclear regulator said, as emergency services warned of the threat of a radiation leak. It was not […] […]