World/Local News

A US woman has been convicted of harm after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a calculated move to get on a TV […] […]

AMY Winehouse had no illegal drugs in her system when she died, and it is still unclear what killed the singer, her family says. The family said in a statement that toxicology tests showed “alcohol […] […]

ONE of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast of the United States shook buildings and rattled nerves on Tuesday and forced the evacuations of parts of the Capitol, White House and Pentagon. […] […]

REBELS in Libya have seized the heavily fortified compound of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after a gunfight in Tripoli which raged for hours. But in a bizarre element in a day of high drama, the whereabouts […] […]

A NEW York judge early today dropped all sex crime charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ending a three-month saga that brought down one of the world’s most powerful men and caused an international uproar. The order, […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son has emerged to say that Tripoli is under the control of the regime, and invading rebels had fallen into a “trap”. “Tripoli is under our control. Everyone should rest assured. […] […]

The startling rebel breakthrough in Tripoli has turned into a manhunt for Moammar Gadhafi, the mercurial leader whose remaining loyalists are fighting to keep control of shrinking pockets of the Libyan capital. Rebel leaders claimed […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Tehran has put on display a new Iranian-made cruise missile, which it says has a range of 124 miles and is capable of destroying a warship. The cruise missile, designed for sea-based targets, is […] […]

ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey’s military said Tuesday its air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq this week have killed an estimated 90 to 100 guerrillas and warned that it would press ahead with offensives […] […]

BEIJING—A major Chinese online commerce site has banned sales of software used to bypass Internet censorship amid Beijing’s efforts to block the development of a Middle East-style protest movement. But Taobao.com, part of e-commerce giant […] […]