World/Local News

A gunman opened fire at a Nevada restaurant, killing three people and wounding nine others, many of them members of the National Guard, before turning the gun on himself. Witnesses called the emergency services shortly […] […]

James Murdoch was told in 2008 about an email that showed phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid was more widespread than his company claimed, the paper’s ex-legal manager has said. The […] […]

SOUTH Africa plans to ban alcohol advertising in a bid to rein in violence fuelled by excessive drinking, the health minister says. With one of the world’s highest crime rates, the country attracts foreign experts […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s nuclear chief on Monday proposed to allow the U.N. nuclear watchdog “full supervision” of its nuclear activities for five years provided that sanctions against Tehran are lifted, but the official did not give […] […]

THE slow-moving remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped a torrent of rain across the South US today and whipped up tornadoes as it pushed further inland. One death was reported, and at least one person […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi is “in excellent health and planning and organising Libya’s defence”, his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said. “We are still powerful,” he told Syria’s Arrai television channel, adding the sons of the toppled dictator “had […] […]

THE Libyan rebel commander at the centre of the storm over Britain’s collusion with the Gaddafi regime accused UK intelligence agents of ignoring his claims that he was being tortured. “I have no doubt, not […] […]

A SENIOR al-Qa’ida leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on Australia, the US and Europe has been arrested in Pakistan. Younis al-Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of the southwestern city […] […]

A British inquiry into alleged complicity in the mistreatment of terror suspects will look into new claims that the spy agency MI6 was involved in rendition to Libya. Prime Minister David Cameron set up the […] […]

The Italian police official who conducted the original investigation in the Amanda Knox case defended her standards, after an independent review harshly criticized the evidence used to convict the American student of murdering her British […] […]