World/Local News

A police spokesman says a gunman has opened fire at a Texas roller rink during a birthday party, fatally shooting at least five people and wounding three others. Grand Prairie police spokesman John Brimmer told […] […]

A TOTAL of 97 people were wounded in twin attacks in Norway, police said today, giving the first injured toll from the bombing and shooting that also killed 92 people and left several missing. “We […] […]

IT was an end many had foreseen, but the death of troubled English pop star Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 is no less tragic or significant for that. Winehouse’s long-term problems with drugs […] […]

FRESH explosions rocked Tripoli and its suburbs early today after NATO said its warplanes had hit a military command centre in the Libyan capital. Two blasts occurred at 12.50am local time in the area housing […] […]

BRITAIN has condemned as “shocking and barbaric” a public execution in Iran of three rapists, after a video showed them standing on top of three buses as guards tied them onto a bridge overhead. “I […] […]

NORWEGIAN police said today the suspect in the twin attacks that left at least 91 dead was “cooperating” with investigators and “wants to explain himself”. They added that the man, arrested after seven were killed […] […]

OSLO, NORWAY — A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. It took investigators several hours […] […]

AMMAN, Jordan—Scores of Jordanian protesters demanding democratic changes from their king burned an American flag Friday, denouncing what they called attempts by Washington to interfere in the reform movement. About 300 protesters, mostly leftists and […] […]

The Chinese state news agency says 41 people have died in a bus fire in central China. The official Xinhua News Agency said the sleeper coach burst into flames along a highway in Henan province […] […]

Caribbean officials are calling for an immediate halt to a European shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste that will pass near the islands on its way to Japan. They contend the practice poses a major risk. […] […]