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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
BUENOS AIRES — At least 45 people were injured in Buenos Aires yesterday when a train rammed a second passenger train that had stalled on the tracks, officials said. One of the victims was a woman who was seven months pregnant, officials at the Municipal Assistance Service (SAME) said. "Between 45 a
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
BEIJING — Large amounts of rice noodles made with rotten grain and potentially carcinogenic additives are being sold in south China, state press said yesterday, in the country’s latest food safety scare. Up to 50 factories in south China’s Dongguan city near Hong Kong are producing about 500,000 kg
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
KABUL — Two Nato soldiers were killed yesterday in separate rebel attacks in southern and western Afghanistan on the last day of 2010, Nato said, taking the death toll for foreign forces to at least 711 for the year. An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member "died following an
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
SEOUL — South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak named yesterday a retired general to head a newly set up office for national crisis management as two attacks from North Korea this year raised tension on the peninsula. The office was set up this month in response to questions over whether the South was
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
ISLAMABAD — Business centres were shut yesterday in a strike called by groups to pressure the ruling party which is scrambling to stop its main coalition partner from pulling out of the governing coalition. Parties called the action to protest against what it believes are plans by the government to
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Friday, 31 December, 2010
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Flash flooding killed a man and three children in the Mecca region of Saudi Arabia yesterday, as waste-high water snarled traffic in the nearby Red Sea port of Jeddah.
The governor of Mecca, Prince Khaled al Faisal, reported the deaths and added that another 200 people had bee
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Friday, 31 December, 2010
COPENHAGEN — Courts in Denmark and Sweden yesterday remanded four men in custody over a foiled plot to attack a Danish newspaper that published offending caricatures in 2005.
Five men were arrested on Wednesday in both countries for hatching what Danish officials called a plan to “kill as many peop
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Friday, 31 December, 2010
LONDON — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was “delighted” yesterday at becoming a great-grandmother with the birth of a baby girl to her grandson Peter Phillips and his Canadian wife.
Buckingham Palace announced that Phillips’ wife Autumn gave birth to the baby, weighing 3.9 kilogrammes (8 pounds 8 oun
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Friday, 31 December, 2010
MOSCOW — Former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky had his jail term extended until 2017 yesterday after being convicted of theft and money-laundering.
Moscow judge Viktor Danilkin granted the prosecutors’ request and ordered Khodorkovsky to serve 14 years in prison, including his current eight-year term
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Friday, 31 December, 2010
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican, whose bank is the focus of a money laundering investigation, enacted laws yesterday to bring it in line with international standards on financial transparency and the fight against funding terrorism.
It was the biggest action ever taken by the Vatican over financial open
