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THE death toll from a killer bacteria outbreak rose to 36 yesterday, German health officials said, one day after warning that more fatalities cannot be ruled out. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany’s national disease […] […]

A MILITANT blew himself up in a bank in Islamabad today – the first suicide attack in the Pakistani capital for nearly two years. The attack comes with Pakistan on edge weeks after US Navy […] […]

NATO says two of its service members have been killed in insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan. The alliance says both deaths occurred yesterday. The international coalition released no other details about the attacks and didn’t […] […]

THE international online vigilante group Anonymous took revenge for the arrest of three of its hackers by blocking the website of the Spanish police, officials said today. “During the night of Saturday to Sunday at […] […]

THE US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missile technology to Burma and after dramatic stand-off forced it to turn back. Pyongyang was forced to recall the ship home after last month’s […] […]

FOUR decades after the Pentagon Papers began appearing in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press, the once top-secret study of the Vietnam War is being released. The Lyndon […] […]

GUNMEN have killed five members of a family, including two young children, in the drug cartel-plagued state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. State Attorney’s General’s Office spokesman Carlos Gonzalez says the unidentified gunmen took the […] […]

Feminist writer Germaine Greer was under pressure to apologise after she suggested that British troops might take part in rapes if they are sent into Libya. Greer was speaking during a BBC discussion about allegations […] […]

David Miliband is “waiting for his brother Ed to fail” as British Labour leader and is “poised” to make another bid for the job, friends of the former Foreign Secretary revealed. Ed Miliband, who pipped […] […]

Hikmat was one of the few remaining residents in Jisr al-Shughour when the Syrian army rolled in, firing wildly and at will. “They didn’t care what they were shooting at,” said the 39-year-old, who was […] […]