SRI Lanka’s Tamil Tigers struck with a suicide bomb yesterday during a Muslim festival in the island’s south, killing 14 and wounding 35, including the telecommunica
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THE sentencing of a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread has sparked new criticism o
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THE Somali cabinet yesterday voted to make Islam the basis of the country’s legal system, in a bid to undercut an increasingly fractured Islamic insurgency and win popular
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FIVE men charged over the 9/11 attacks in the United States have mocked the American authorities and proclaimed themselves terrorists to the bone in war crimes co
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IVORY Coast has docked 11 government ministers a month’s pay for missing a meeting on cutting pollution in the sprawling city of Abidjan.
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THE chant echoed around the stadium: Why? Why? Why?
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A SUICIDE bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders and high-ranking Iraqi security officials touring a market after a reconciliation meeting west of Baghdad yesterday, ki
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AN INVESTIGATION into child pornography in Scotland found links with paedophiles in the United States and Netherlands, a court heard yesterday.
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RUSSIA may freeze a reported deal to deliver S-300 air defence systems to Iran, a source was quoted as saying yesterday, days after Moscow and Washington signalled they want
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DISGRACED financier Bernard Madoff could face a 150-year prison sentence after his lawyer yesterday indicated he would plead guilty to charges of fraud.
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