THE owner of the nightclub where at least 112 people died in Russia��s worst fire in decades was jailed yesterday pending the results of an inquiry as shocked and grieving relatives began to bury the victims of the...
WORLD concern about climate change has fallen in the past two years, according to an opinion poll yesterday, the eve of 190-nation talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, meant to agree upon a United Nations deal to fight global...
PROTESTERS hurled rocks and burning garbage at police in Greece yesterday as violence erupted during a march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots. ...
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A SPECIAL police force has closed 95 unlicensed clubs and 42 liquor stores in Baghdad since the start of November after neighbors complained of underage drinking, public drunkenness and lewd advertising, Governor Salah...
UNITED States President Barack Obama was to pay a rare visit to Capitol Hill to urge Senate Democrats forward as they work over the weekend to try to resolve their differences on his sweeping health care overhaul. ...
ROMANIANS voted yesterday in a hotly contested presidential runoff that could resolve almost two months of political crisis and unfreeze an international loan Romania needs to emerge from recession. Centrist President...
POLICE commandos acting on a tip killed one militant and arrested five others yesterday in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said. ...
ITALIAN tax police said on Saturday they had seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art in a crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat. Authorities...
PHILIPPINE troops arrested 62 people and discovered another major weapons cache yesterday after martial law was imposed in a southern province following the country's worst political massacre. Thousands of troops,...
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THE number of deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus has hit 100 in Japan, Kyodo news agency reported today, as the pandemic continues to spread around the world. The latest fatality in Japan was reported in the...
RUSSIAN emergency officials say the number of people killed by a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm has risen to 112. Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Darya Kochneva said today the latest victim was a man who...
THREE more people have been detained over the tragic fire that ripped through a nightclub in Russia's Urals city of Perm, said the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office yesterday. ...
AMANDA Knox sought comfort from visiting family members on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering her British roommate. The family of victim Meredith Kercher said yesterday the verdict brought...
POLICE arrested at least 160 youths and raided what they said was a firebomb-making hideout yesterday in an effort to prevent riots on the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer. Police...
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