World/Local News

Rupert Murdoch’s son James has been accused of misleading British MPs while answering questions at a Parliamentary hearing into phone hacking. Murdoch Junior told MPs he did not know when authorising a settlement that phone […] […]

PENTAGON chief Leon Panetta has decided to end the ban on gays serving openly in the armed services, certifying that repealing the 17-year-old prohibition will not hurt the military’s ability to fight, officials say. His […] […]

A FORMER reporter for the Daily Mirror who says the News of the World was not the only British newspaper involved in phone hacking says he’s likely to make himself available to testify to the […] […]

CHINA has told the United States to respect Chinese “territorial integrity”, amid simmering tensions focused on the South China Sea. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi made the comments to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […] […]

AUTHORITIES say floods triggered by monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh have killed 6 people and displaced more than 10,000. Government administrator Zainul Bari says two rivers in the region have overflowed after five days of […] […]

BRITAIN’S deputy prime minister says the tabloid phone hacking scandal has created a once-in-a-generation chance to clean up murky relations among media, police and politicians. Nick Clegg also defended Prime Minister David Cameron at a […] […]

A UK judge says four elderly Kenyans who claim they were tortured during an anti-colonial rebellion in the 1950s can sue the British government. The Kenyans say they were beaten and sexually assaulted by officers […] […]

A 32-year-old Japanese man was today sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and killing British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker in 2007, before burying her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub. Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32 – who […] […]

A SAUDI woman will be tried for taking the wheel, in what she said was an emergency, despite the ultra-conservative kingdom’s ban on females driving. The unnamed 35-year-old was arrested in the Red Sea city […] […]

The death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World journalist and whistleblower on the escalating phone-hacking scandal, was “not suspicious” and involved no third party, police said a post-mortem has showed. The post-mortem […] […]