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A French court rejected on Wednesday a U.S. request to extradite an Iranian engineer, who Washington said had illegally bought electronic equipment for military use in violation of a trade embargo on Iran. The U.S. […] […]

The U.S. State Department on Thursday extended a travel warning that had been issued for Mexico because of the region’s high level of drug and gang violence. The State Department warning also notes that the […] […]

A release from the organisers of show in Toronto, which should have been headlined by singer Sugar Minott, states that they “received sad news that reggae’s veteran entertainer, producer and sound system owner has fallen […] […]

National Commercial Bank (NCB) and its former owner, the United Kingdom-based Barclays Plc, have had a J$504.68 million lawsuit filed against them by the son and three daughters of a Kingston businessman who died 40 […] […]

The biggest pop group in America were in town last night and all eyes were on the support act, for a while at least. Cheryl Cole, playing her first proper solo concert in London since […] […]

A man banned from wearing skirts or showing bare legs on school days breached an Asbo, a court has heard. Peter Trigger, 60, from Farndon Close, Northampton, was given an anti-social behaviour order in December […] […]

China has seen a dramatic rise in cases of syphilis, as a result of rapid social change, US researchers say. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine says syphilis is now the most […] […]

The Soloist, Contributor I am sick of this crime thing but I am not running away. I don’t like any of the three big countries enough to do more than visit them. But I have […] […]

Captain Russell Capleton, who led the Jamaican Airline Pilots’ Association’s (JALPA) unsuccessful bid to purchase Air Jamaica, died early yesterday morning at Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew. Captain John Williams, who succeeded Capleton as […] […]

Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose election marked the first peaceful transition of power from one civilian to another in a nation once plagued by military coups, has died, his spokesman said. He was 58. Yar’Adua’s […] […]