World News
06 Aug 10 | US authorities trying to solve a shooting in New York have zeroed in on identical twin brothers - but now they have to figure out which one to charge.
06 Aug 10 | The stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.
06 Aug 10 | Supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony in the war crimes trial of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is the latest flash of glamour to shine on the sordid issue of blood diamonds.
06 Aug 10 | Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a war crimes court on Thursday she had received a gift of "dirty-looking stones" she assumed was from Liberia's Charles Taylor after a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela.
"When I was sleeping I had a knock at my door and I opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said: 'A gift for you'," the model, dressed in a classical, beige two-piece with a knee-length skirt, told the court.
06 Aug 10 | A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a US state appeals court has found.
06 Aug 10 | MAIMANA, Afghanistan: The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has called for an investigation into a US-backed anti-corruption taskforce following the arrest of several senior Afghan officials on graft charges.
06 Aug 10 | MADRID: Michelle Obama and her youngest daughter, Sasha, 9, arrived in Spain for a short holiday as US officials scrambled to defuse embarrassing allegations of institutional racism against their host country.
06 Aug 10 | MEXICO CITY: The Mexican President has joined calls for a debate on the legalisation of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year are being slaughtered in cartel wars.
06 Aug 10 | A federal judge in California has ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection, the first step in a legal struggle that is widely expected to end at the Supreme Court.
06 Aug 10 | KATHMANDU: The Nepalese Supreme Court has charged the lawyer of the notorious murderer Charles Sobhraj and her daughter with contempt after they accused two judges of bias against him, a court official said yesterday.
06 Aug 10 | PARIS: Putting your faith in GPS, it appears, is not as reliable as putting your faith in the Lord.
06 Aug 10 | KARACHI: A third night of violence has rocked Pakistan's commercial capital, keeping some factories and markets closed, after a spate of killings triggered by the shooting of an MP.
06 Aug 10 | Indonesia has demanded that the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone establish a data processing centre in the country or face ''legal consequences'' in the latest challenge to the device from governments around the world concerned about its unique security features.
06 Aug 10 | TOKYO: The disappearance of some of Japan's oldest citizens is raising concern some families are cheating the pension system even as others risk being deprived of payments for the same reason - poor record-keeping.
06 Aug 10 | BEIRUT: Senior Lebanese army commanders planned and authorised the cross-border shooting on Tuesday that killed an Israel Defence Forces colonel who was supervising the removal of a tree within Israeli territory, the Lebanese press has reported.
06 Aug 10 | The Australian Defence Force has admitted its soldiers in East Timor have been involved in nine vehicle crashes since 2008 in which civilians have been injured - but has ruled out paying compensation to the victims.
05 Aug 10 | Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a war crimes court on Thursday she had received a gift of "dirty-looking stones" she assumed was from Liberia's Charles Taylor after a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela.
05 Aug 10 | A controversial scheme in Britain, under which a prolific teenage burglar initially avoided custody, has been defended as he was jailed for five years after reoffending.
05 Aug 10 | The death of the 16-year-old son of a British baronet has brought into sharp focus the enormous toll that youth suicides take on families.
05 Aug 10 | An American man says he's grateful his dog ate most of his toe while he was passed out drunk.