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THE Taliban has accused American phone hackers of sending a fake text message to media organisations saying the group’s leader Mullah Omar is dead. Rumours spread that Omar had died when a text message allegedly […] […]

THE crippled reactors at Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear power plant have reached stability more than four months since the disaster and the plant is on track for a cold shutdown within six months, the government and […] […]

CHICAGO—Dozens of sealed court papers from a recent Chicago trial related to the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attacks will be released publicly, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, though it’s unclear whether they’ll contain any new […] […]

LONDON — A protester splattered Rupert Murdoch with white foam in a foil pie dish on Tuesday, interrupting a dramatic hearing in which the media baron told British lawmakers he was not responsible for a […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s Conservative Party says a former News of the World executive may have given the prime minister’s former communications chief advice before the 2010 national election. The Conservative Party said Neil Wallis, who was arrested […] […]

A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while their bodies lay in the bedroom, US police said. Tyler Hadley of Florida is […] […]

SYRIAN security forces shot dead 13 civilians in the central protest hub city of Homs, rights activist Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. “Thirteen civilians were killed yesterday (Monday) and today (Tuesday) in several parts of […] […]

AN Afghan official says seven police officers have been poisoned and shot dead at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan. Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand province, said today that the policemen were killed yesterday by […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron last night called for an emergency session of parliament to brief MPs on the spreading phone hacking scandal. The call from Mr Cameron in Pretoria to extend the House of […] […]

THE biggest police force in Europe was last night without a leader and Britain without its most senior counter-terrorism officer after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson was followed out the door by Assistant Commissioner John […] […]