World/Local News

VEHICLES have been were hijacked and petrol bombs thrown in Londonderry in Northern Ireland as tensions rise over a Protestant parade through the Catholic-majority city. A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) spokeswoman said a […] […]

TENSIONS between Britain’s government and police leaders has flared over Prime Minister David Cameron’s recruitment of a veteran American police commander to advise him on how to combat gangs and prevent a repeat of the […] […]

LONDON—It wasn’t long ago that David Cameron launched what became known as his “Hug a Hoodie” campaign—an initiative born of a public outcry over Britain’s ill-behaved youths, and one that ended in ridicule when hooded […] […]

ACCRA, Ghana—As international aid agencies scramble for donations for East Africa’s famine victims, one multi-million-dollar fundraising drive has come from an unexpected source: a West African schoolboy. Andrew Adansi-Bonnah is 11. And during his eight-week […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has backed a call to withdraw welfare benefits from rioters as a London council became the first to begin evicting a tenant whose son faces unrest charges. Mr Cameron said overnight […] […]

PRIME Minister David Cameron has asked former New York police commissioner Bill Bratton to act as a consultant to British police on how to curb street violence, Downing Street said. Mr Bratton has agreed to […] […]

AN American man was kidnapped from his home in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing details published by local media. Police Senior Superintendent, Abdul Razaq Cheema, said a group […] […]

LONDON—Residents of a London housing estate laughed at a televised plea by police for parents to call their children and help rein in the youths who looted and burnt swathes of the city. Not only […] […]

A BLISTERING summer heatwave in Japan has claimed four lives and seen 900 people hospitalised this week, amid an energy saving campaign due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The mercury has risen above 35 degrees […] […]

KARACHI, Pakistan—A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced to death a soldier who shot and killed an unarmed youth as he was begging for mercy—an incident that was caught on videotape and repeatedly broadcast on TV, […] […]