BAGHDAD — A spate of bomb attacks and shootings in Iraq yesterday killed five people, including a television presenter, as Baghdad imposed a ban on motorcycles ahead of Eid al Fitr. The violence, which left dozens wounded, came three days after a co-ordinated suicide attack on an Iraqi military com

RABAT — Nine Portuguese tourists were killed and 14 injured when their tour bus plunged into a ravine in northern Morocco yesterday, the interior ministry said. Eight of the dead in the accident near the border with the Spanish enclave of Ceuta were female, including a teenager, and one of the inju

LONDON — The father of British Prime Minister David Cameron has died after suffering a stroke while on holiday in France, Downing Street said yesterday. “It is with deep regret we can confirm that Ian Cameron died earlier this afternoon,” a statement said. “He passed away shortly after the prime mi

LONDON — Britain is to review its extradition laws after widespread concern existing treaty arrangements with the United States are biased against the UK. Home Secretary Theresa May announced the year-long review of agreements with the United States and European countries to examine whether they ar

KADUNA, Nigeria — Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant sect, police said yesterday. State police commissioner Danlami Yar’Adua said the gunmen killed four people includ

BERLIN — A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station”. The “Milchtankstelle” near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine. The milk filling station is op

MADRID — A British father and his adult son have drowned in the sea while on holiday on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain, a British embassy spokeswoman said yesterday. The accident happened on Tuesday at the Playa del Tesorillo in the Granada region, she said, without providing further details.

BERLIN — Lenin and Stalin must have been turning in their graves yesterday as statues of the fathers of communism in the heart of the former East Berlin were moved to new positions, facing west. The statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were shifted some 80 metres to allow the extension of the

HONG KONG — A 13-year-old schoolboy sent a suicide note to his parents by mobile phone text message before leaping to his death from a Hong Kong high-rise flat, a news report said yesterday. Chan Wai-lok, who jumped from his family’s 14th-floor flat early on Tuesday morning, wrote in the message, “

SYDNEY — A Melbourne court yesterday jailed the hosts of a partner-swapping session who killed an Australian millionaire because he turned up without a partner to trade. Bernadette Denny, 42, and Mario Schembri, 58, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 51-year-old Herman Rockefeller and were sente