World/Local News

Consumer confidence in the UK has slipped to levels normally associated with a recession, raising further concern over the UK’s economic recovery. The reading published by GfK NOP dropped for the third month in a […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week from his home in Haiti’s capital was freed Tuesday after police surrounded his captors’ hideout, a Haitian police official said. Frank Jean-Baptiste was rescued by a […] […]

BRUSSELS—A human rights group said Tuesday it believed that at least 88 people, ten of them children, have died in detention in Syria during five months of anti-government protests—a dramatic increase that coincides with the […] […]

NEW YORK—A ban on religious and other head coverings on rides at a suburban amusement park on Tuesday sparked scuffles leading to 15 arrests. Rye Playland, just north of New York City, was crowded with […] […]

A CHINESE court has sentenced two Tibetan Buddhist monks to prison for assisting in the death of a 16-year-old colleague who set himself on fire. The official Xinhua News Agency says Tsering Tenzin was sentenced […] […]

TEXAS Governor Rick Perry has slammed a court ruling that invalidated parts of a law he signed that would force doctors to conduct an ultrasound for women seeking an abortion. “This important sonogram legislation ensures […] […]

THE Wikileaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed during an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy website says it’s fending off a cyberattack after being lambasted for releasing more supposedly confidential US diplomatic cables. […] […]

AFGHAN Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed talks between the insurgency and the US, and laid out a manifesto for a Taliban government that protects private business, exploits the country’s mineral wealth and maintains […] […]

AUGUST has become the deadliest month yet for US forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later. The 66 US service […] […]

A BRITISH minister accidentally revealed a sensitive government document on Afghanistan on Tuesday which says London should welcome President Hamid Karzai’s departure in 2014. International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell inadvertently left the documents on display […] […]