World/Local News

AT least five people were shot dead as thousands of Syrians took to the streets to rally against President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of Ramadan in support of the protest hub of Hama, […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son was killed in a NATO airstrike, Libyan rebels said last night, after the dictator’s regime accused the alliance of targeting civilians. A spokesman for the rebels said Khamis Gaddafi, commander of an […] […]

THE British phone-hacking saga deepened as it was revealed that the assistant editor of The Guardian – the newspaper that originally uncovered the scandal – admitted hacking into telephone messages and getting a “thrill” from […] […]

PORTLAND, ORE.—The U.S. Labor Department has fined three Washington state strawberry farms a total of $73,000 for employing children as young as 6 years old as pickers. The department’s Portland, Ore., office says Thursday the […] […]

A JUDGE is allowing an army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the US military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally for damages. The veteran’s identity is […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son says his family has forged an alliance with Islamist rebels to drive out the secular opposition to the regime. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who along with his father had long branded the entire […] […]

CNN host Piers Morgan is under pressure to admit his apparent involvement in phone hacking after a claim by Heather Mills that a journalist from Britain’s Mirror group had confessed to intercepting her phone messages […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Police arrested three suspects in the grisly slayings of a mother and daughter whose beheadings during a home invasion last month renewed a sense of fear and outrage among crime-weary Jamaicans, officials said Tuesday. […] […]

PARIS—French authorities have agreed to extradite former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to his native Panama, his lawyer said Tuesday. Yves Leberquier said French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed the extradition on July 6 and that […] […]

POLICE investigating phone hacking and bribery at defunct British tabloid News of the World have arrested a man, believed to be a former executive at the newspaper. The Metropolitan Police said a 71-year-old man had […] […]