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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The garden is in full bloom at Abdul Qadeer Khan’s house. A lazy summer haze has settled over his manse, and at the small police substation across the way, several men chitchatted amiably on a recent day, barely glancing at the upscale villa that for the past four years has been part […]
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SEOUL — It’s been a spooky spring in the beef-and-poultry aisle. South Korean shoppers have had to wrestle with risks real and rumored, domestic and imported, pathogenic and political.
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SAN BENITO, Nicaragua — As a young insurgent fighting to overturn Nicaragua’s Marxist-led Sandinista revolution during the 1980s, MartÃn Laguna chose the alias “Comandante Amargura,” Spanish for “Commander Bitterness,” to protest his suffering at the hands of a government that had gunned down his father and confiscated his family’s cattle ranch.
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BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela — Mauricio Herrera describes himself as a devoted soldier in President Hugo Chávez’s self-styled revolution. So when oil workers opposed to Chávez went on strike in 2002, Herrera was among loyalists at the state oil company who revived production.
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MEXICO CITY — Every Monday morning, President Felipe Calderón settles in at the head of the table in the presidential library at Los Pinos, Mexico’s fortresslike chief executive’s compound.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 6 — The opposition’s presidential candidate was briefly detained Friday for the second time this week as Zimbabwean authorities intensified a crackdown on political opponents and what they consider outside meddling.
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BAGHDAD, June 5 — The No. 2 commander of U.S. military forces in Iraq said Thursday that the withdrawal of most of the American troops that made up the “surge” has not harmed the war effort, adding that it was “certainly possible” thousands more could be pulled out later this year.
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BUENOS AIRES — After getting caught with contraband like ecstasy tablets and marijuana, a few young Argentines have been asked by judges recently to pay an unexpected price for breaking the nation’s drug laws: None at all.
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MAJINGXIANG, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops on Saturday eased pressure on a swelling “quake lake” threatening hundreds of thousands of people, but a smaller lake burst its banks in a show of destructive force.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Barack Obama basks in his historic accomplishment as the first black U.S. presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton ends her groundbreaking effort as the first woman to go as far as she did in the quest for the White House.
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The US and the four largest economies in Asia are to voice “serious concerns” over “unprecedented” oil prices.
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A collapse of the quake-formed lake, known as Tangjiashan, could potentially flood an area that is home to 1.3 million people in hilly central Sichuan province, compounding the misery in a disaster zone still reeling from the May 12 quake that killed nearly 70,000 people.
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HILLARY Clinton will bow out of the Democratic presidential race today at a Washington landmark where in 1996 her husband celebrated his re-election to the White House.
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A THERAPY tailored to individuals’ genes has transformed the treatment of a chronic disease, in a groundbreaking advance for personalised medicine.
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LONDON (June 6) — Britain’s Prince Andrew served 22 years in the Royal Navy, so he says it now makes him proud to see his two nephews, Princes William and Harry, have roles in the armed services, too.
Andrew, 48, spoke to CNN this week about his family and his own life, which included a stint […]
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Binmen have put two fingers up to common sense by issuing an astonishing warning to council-tax payers.
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Oil prices shot up more than US$10 (NZ$13) to a new record above $139 a barrel on Friday after a major investment bank predicted a spike to $150 in the coming weeks and rising tensions in the Middle East left investors uneasy about supply.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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After 800,000 were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations set up a war crimes tribunal based out of Arusha, Tanzania, to try the perpetrators. Since its formation in late 1994, 35 suspects have been brought before the tribunal with five acquittals.
Last week, the U.N. denied a request by Rwandan prosecutors to have the […]