US investigators have found that the firms drilling a British Petroleum (BP) Gulf of Mexico oil well had tests showing that cement used to seal it before it blew out was unstable.
Bangladesh (AP):Police said yesterday they have arrested 20 members of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party and seized homemade bombs from a house where they were holding a meeting.Police officer Monir Uz Zaman...
Croatia (AP):Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the opposition blaming her for the nation's economic decline and corruption in the upper echelons of her party.
MEXICO CITY (AP):Gunmen killed six young men yesterday in a gritty neighbourhood of the Mexican capital, an alarming attack in a city that has largely been spared the kind of mass shootings common in drug-trafficking hot spots....
Nigeria (AP): Israeli officials said yesterday that the military-grade armaments seized at a shipping terminal in Nigeria came from Iran and were bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. ...
BEIJING (AP):China's Communist Party newspaper issued a scathing attack on Western-style democracy yesterday amid growing calls for reform of the country's political system and a resulting push-back by party...
MOSCOW (AP):A court has convicted two Russian men of racially motivated murders. The Moscow City Court yesterday found Vasily Krivets, 22, guilty of 15 hate killings...
Pakistan (AP):Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a Japanese consular vehicle in Pakistan's largest city yesterday, wounding two local employees and underscoring the fragile security in the country.
Already beset by a massive earthquake and a tsunami, the Indonesian government is now contending with tens of thousands of persons who are now displaced as a result of a volcanic eruption.
ISLAMABAD (AP):Amnesty International yesterday called on Pakistan to investigate the alleged torture and killing of more than 40 political leaders and activists in south-western Baluchistan...
Mexico (AP):The bodies of two men, one of them decapitated, were found in a Mexican border city yesterday and police suspect they may have been behind the massacre of 14 young people at a birthday party.
Sri Lanka (AP):Sri Lanka's president has appealed for clemency for a maid awaiting beheading in a Saudi Arabian prison, his office said yesterday.President Mahinda Rajapaksa wrote to Saudi King...
Colombia (AP):The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front line of the battle against drugs said yesterday that a California ballot measure to legalise marijuana would send a contradictory...
SAO PAULO (AP):An outbreak of deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Brazil has killed at least 18 people around Brazil's capital, officials said yesterday, and has prompted hurried measures to keep the problem from...
More than 100 people have been killed and 502 missing as a result of a tsunami which was triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
