World/Local News

AFGHAN and NATO forces said 35 people – most of them insurgents – have been killed in escalating violence as the Taliban try to regain territory lost during the winter months to the US-led coalition. […] […]

LIBYA’S regime accused NATO of killing at least seven people in an air raid on a medical clinic in Zliten, east of Tripoli, after rebels repulsed a counter-attack by loyalist troops south of the capital. […] […]

AN autopsy is being held to determine the cause of Amy Winehouse’s death, but a coroner’s official says police have found no suspicious circumstances. The singer was found dead on Saturday at her London home […] […]

THE gunman who slaughtered dozens of campers at a Norwegian island retreat used special bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause maximum internal damage, the chief surgeon at a hospital treating victims said. […] […]

The hunt by GTA police for killer and rapist Alexander Winston Sylvester began 30 years ago, at a time when there were no computerized police data banks or DNA testing. It successfully ended this month […] […]

HONEFOSS, NORWAY—Hussein Kazemi has faced danger many times before. Maybe that’s why the teenager still can smile as he sits in his hospital bed, bullet wounds in both legs and an arm, and images of […] […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—A bomb exploded in a busy neighborhood in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing at least eight people, a witness said Sunday. Badigma Bukar, 45, whose armed was injured in Saturday’s attack, told The Associated Press […] […]

Arrested gunman Anders Behring Breivik worked 9 years on a “manifesto” that blamed multi-culturalists, Marxists and Muslims for Europe’s problems and urged violent means to purge Europe of non-Christians and those he deemed traitors to […] […]

Amanda Knox’s appeal against her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy faces a fresh challenge. A prominent forensic scientist, whose DNA evidence helped to convict the American student and her […] […]

A Chinese high-speed train derailed when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 32 people. Officials had initially put that figure at 16. […] […]