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BAGHDAD (June 29) – Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. A countdown clock broadcast on Iraqi TV ticked to zero as the midnight deadline passed for U.S. combat [...]
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Michael Jackson’s mother wins temporary custody of his three children ‘Bald and emaciated’ Michael Jackson died weighing just 8st, autopsy reveals Girl, 9, becomes first child in Britain to die from swine flu Swine flu scare hits Wimbledon Good Samaritan stops to help at road smash – only to find victim is dying teenage son [...]
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Cross-border shot kills soldier New 8:15AM Tuesday Jun 30, 2009 An Indian soldier was killed in cross-border firing in Kashmir yesterday, a security official said, the latest violation of a six-year-old ceasefire with Pakistan. It was not clear whether the firing was from separatist militants trying to sneak into the Indian side of [...]
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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 [...]
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The post-electoral unrest in Iran takes on a new international angle. From the Times of London: “Britain reacted angrily yesterday to the arrest of at least eight Iranians working for the British Embassy in Tehran, calling the move unacceptable ‘harassment and intimidation’. The eight, who are thought to work [...]
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To: Eric ZornFrom: Mary Schmich Michael Jackson dies at 50. Any time I see an obit headline that includes the number “50” I feel an iron hand at my throat. It’s an age that once seemed so old but now seems way too young to die. When a famous person dies young, we stare in [...]
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4:02pm UK, Monday June 29, 2009 Gordon Brown has described the detention of British Embassy staff in Tehran as “unacceptable” and “unjustified”. Riot police during a protest outside the British embassy in [...]
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Joe Jackson has said that he believes foul play may have been involved in the death of his pop superstar son Michael. Read more
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The Filipino inmates whose YouTube video of their “Thriller” dance went viral, recreated the event on Saturday in a tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson. The original idea was developed by Byron Garcia, the Cebu provincial security consultant who came up with the idea of adding dancing to poorly attended exercise sessions. Read full story [...]
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Soldiers seized the national palace and flew President Manuel Zelaya into exile yesterday, hours before a disputed constitutional referendum. Congress appointed a successor, but Zelaya, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said he was the victim of an illegal coup. Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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WASHINGTON — At a dinner gathering here over the weekend, a congressional staffer asked one of Venezuela’s most respected opposition leaders what the United States could do to help the South American nation. His advice was simple — do nothing. Read more
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PRAGUE, June 27 — Holocaust survivors and their heirs are still battling museums and governments for the return of thousands of pieces of looted art, despite pledges made by dozens of countries in Washington a decade ago to resolve the claims. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 28 — More than 70 years ago, the British army went to war against tribal forces loyal to a charismatic religious figure in what is now the Pakistani region of Waziristan. The ensuing guerrilla conflict lasted more than a decade. The British troops, though far more numerous and better armed, never captured [...]
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Soldiers ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras on Sunday and Congress named a successor, but the leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced what he called an illegal coup and vowed to stay in power. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia — In a White House ceremony in January, President George W. Bush awarded Colombian President Álvaro Uribe the Presidential Medal of Freedom and praised him for his “immense personal courage and strength of character” for taking on his country’s fight against Marxist guerrillas. Read more
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The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past six weeks and has sent funding to train Somali soldiers, a senior State Department official said yesterday, in the most complete accounting to date of the new American efforts in the strife-torn [...]
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CAIRO, June 27 — Over the past two weeks, Marcelle George has watched with amazement as legions of Iranian women, most wearing black, full-length Islamic garments, defiantly protested Iran’s leadership. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran accused the United States of trying to destabilize it and sparked a new row with Britain on Sunday, underscoring the hardline leadership’s efforts to blame post-election unrest on foreign powers rather than popular anger. Read more