World/Local News

THE Dutch parliament has passed a bill banning the slaughter of livestock without stunning it first, removing an exemption that has allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules. If […] […]

EIGHT heavily armed Taliban militants stormed a top Kabul hotel, sparking a ferocious battle involving Afghan commandos and a NATO helicopter gunship that ended hours later with at least 10 civilians dead. Officials said all […] […]

AT least one suicide bomber and several gunmen have attacked a major Kabul hotel frequented by foreigners and Afghan officials, police and officials said, in a brazen strike claimed by the Taliban. Witnesses reported hearing […] […]

At least ten people are reported to have been killed at a Western-style hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul. At least one suicide bomber blew himself up and at least six gunmen were thought to […] […]

Riots have again erupted outside the Greek Parliament as demonstrators protested more taxes and spending cuts. Greece has begun a two-day general strike, which has halted nearly all public transport, forced airlines to reschedule or […] […]

Ultra-modern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries – an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. And with it […] […]

GREEK police and anti-austerity protesters faced off in a tense duel yesterday that quickly escalated into full blown clashes as angry workers were teargassed seeking to pierce unprecedented defences. Radicals among some 10,000 protesters sought […] […]

LIBYA has rejected an arrest warrant issued for Muammar Gaddafi, saying it does not accept the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction and the move was a “cover” for a NATO bombing campaign. The ICC’s decision is […] […]

The top US military nuclear research lab has been ordered to stay closed after flames reached it and the local town began evacuating. However officials say all high-risk materials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory […] […]

Grammy Award-winning pop star Prince has told a British newspaper that women forced to wear burqas in Islamic countries were “happy” to wear them. Prince told The Guardian newspaper: “It’s fun being in Islamic countries, […] […]