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Eurovision: UK’s Engelbert Humperdinck bombs in Baku
ENGELBERT Humperdinck said he “did the best for my country” at the Eurovision Song Contest after the UK’s hopes of breaking its competition curse came crashing down when the veteran crooner scraped into last-but-one place.
13 commentsScientist’s body found
The body of the second of two British men who died during a trip on a crocodile-infested river in India has been found.
1 commentLove could conquer all at Cannes film festival
THE Cannes film festival drew to a close last night with a screening of Mud, a coming-of-age tale set on the Mississippi River and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.
Arrest intensifies the spotlight on Vatican
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican confirmed yesterday that the pope’s butler had been arrested in its leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a tale of power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance.
2 commentsSpace station’s crew enter the Dragon
UNITED STATES: Astronauts on the International Space Station have entered the Dragon – the world’s first commercial supply spaceship.
1 commentYemeni army pushes militants back
YEMEN: The Yemeni army battled al-Qaeda-linked militants deep inside the southern port of Zinjibar yesterday, recapturing key positions inside the rebel-held city and killing at least 62 Islamist fighters.
Medvedev takes over at party in crisis
THE ruling party in Russia has appointed prime minister Dmitry Medvedev as its leader at a congress meeting in Moscow.
Teenager arrested after two shot dead
TWO people were shot dead and several others wounded when a gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finland town centre yesterday.
Ex-Mubarak premier sides with revolution in bid for presidency
EGYPTIAN presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq paid tribute yesterday to the “glorious revolution” that toppled Hosni Mubarak, a dramatic turnaround for the former regime official who fought his way into the runoff elections by appealing to public disenchantment with last year’s uprising.
Syria’s massacre of innocents
SYRIAN government forces killed at least 90 civilians, including 32 children, yesterday in one of the bloodiest attacks on a single area since the popular uprising began last year.
BBC music presenter arrested in Zimbabwe
A BBC classical music presenter has been arrested and detained in Zimbabwe.
Blast kills 19 workers in Hunan province
CHINA: A tunnel blast has killed 19 workers at a central Chinese highway construction site, officials said yesterday.
Private rocket launch delayed after hitch
UNITED STATES: The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida was delayed yesterday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the engines.
1 commentWill Smith slaps reporter over premiere kiss
RUSSIA: Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who tried to kiss him before the Moscow premiere of Men In Black III.
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Nine die in latest Syrian bombing
A SUICIDE vehicle bomb tore through the car park of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city yesterday, killing nine people, state media reported.
Philippines: Christian groups’ anger over ‘demonic’ Lady Gaga
RIOT police yesterday stopped hundreds of Conservative Christians from reaching a Manila concert venue where Lady Gaga is due to perform tomorrow in a protest against the controversial singer.
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and family on plane to US
BLIND Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng was hurriedly taken from a Beijing hospital and put on a plane for the United States yesterday.
Italy school bombing kills girl, 16
A TEENAGE girl was killed and at least seven others were injured yesterday when a bomb exploded outside an Italian high school named after a murdered anti-Mafia prosecutor.
1 commentFalcone and Morvillo: symbols of anti-corruption fight
ITALY’S most celebrated anti-Mafia crusader, Giovanni Falcone, and his wife, Francesca Morvillo, were killed on 23 May, 1992, by one of the biggest bombs ever used in an assassination by the crime network.
Suicide blast at Afghan border
A SUICIDE bomber killed 13 people when he blew himself up yesterday at a police checkpoint in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, police said.
G8 summit: David Cameron calls for action on Eurozone meltdown
GREECE should remain in the Eurozone, G8 leaders stressed yesterday as David Cameron warned that a rescue plan for the stricken currency must be put in place “very fast” to avoid its potentially-devastating collapse.
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Why are Batang Kali’s victims still awaiting justice, when their killers long ago admitted their guilt?
THE men were relaxing after a hard day tapping trees, the women chopping wood to prepare dinner, when the soldiers swooped on the isolated rubber estate of Sugai Rimoh near the Batang Kali river in Malaya on 11 December, 1948.
4 commentsEgyptians aid talks on hunger strikers
Israelis and Palestinians are negotiating through Egyptian mediators to end a mass Palestinian hunger strike, officials said yesterday.
King Abdullah dismisses adviser
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia’s official news agency has reported that King Abdullah has dismissed a conservative adviser after he publicly criticised reforms aimed at easing restrictions on women.
Three US students die in minivan crash
NEW ZEALAND: Officials have identified three Boston University students who were killed yesterday when their minivan crashed in New Zealand, where they had been studying.
Hudson’s brother-in- law guilty of murder
UNITED STATES: A jury in Chicago has convicted the former brother-in-law of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson of murdering her mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew in what prosecutors called an act of vengeance by a jilted husband.
Chavez returns from treatment in Cuba
VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez has returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba, saying his latest round of radiation therapy was successful.
Analysis: Political implosion seems an augur of wider economic collapse
GREECE is becoming almost ungovernable. Since last week’s election, three of the political parties have tried to form a government. Each has failed. Now it has fallen on the president to bring the parties together, appealing to them to create a government of national unity.
Support for Iran’s president falls away
SUPPORTERS of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been reduced to a small fraction of Iran’s legislature, outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to challenge the authority of top clerics, results from a runoff parliamentary election announced yesterday show.
Hollande still ahead of a rallying Sarkozy as France goes to the polls
CAMPAIGNING ended in France yesterday for a decisive second-round presidential vote expected to crown François Hollande the country’s first Socialist leader in two decades, despite polls showing President Nicolas Sarkozy clawing back some ground.
Town tells king: you are not welcome here
SPAIN: A town has declared the king of Spain an unwelcome person, dealing another blow to the 74-year-old monarch who has faced criticism for going on an elephant hunting trip.
Putin takes reins of a less submissive Russia
Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency tomorrow will technically give him greater powers than he wielded as prime minister. The irony is that his position will arguably be weaker than at any time since he first came to power more than 12 years ago.
Chaos of coalition looming for Greece
IT WILL be Greece’s most critical – and uncertain – election in decades. As the Greeks head to the polls today, disillusioned voters look set to severely punish the country’s two main parties, which are being held responsible for Greece’s dire economic and financial straits.
23 bodies dumped in drugs turf war
THE bodies of 23 people have been found hanged from a bridge or decapitated in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escalating turf war.
9/11 accused pray in court protest
THE self-proclaimed mastermind of the 11 September terrorist attacks repeatedly declined to answer a judge’s questions yesterday and his co-defendants knelt in prayer in what appeared to be a concerted protest against the military proceedings.
Four die in Afghan compound shootout
TWO Taleban militants and two Afghan security guards were killed in a gunbattle inside a provincial governor’s security compound in the south of the country yesterday.
Syria accuses UN chief of encouraging ‘terrorist attacks’
A Syrian state-run newspaper yesterday accused United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of encouraging “terrorist” rebel attacks by focusing his criticism on the Damascus government.
Heywood murder scandal claims Xi’s main rival
When Xi Jinping, the vice president of China and its presumed next leader, returned from a crucial image-polishing tour of the US in February, he faced an even more delicate matter at home.
Yellow-shirt riot hits Kuala Lumpur
POLICE fired tear-gas canisters and water cannoned thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia’s largest street rallies of recent years yesterday.
Deep-sea drill probe plumbs record depths
JAPAN: A Japanese deep-sea drilling probe has set a world record for depth, reaching 25,400 feet below the sea surface, the research institute that launched it has announced.
France’s presidential front-runner vows to combat new wave of lay-offs
FRANCE’S Socialist presidential front-runner Francois Hollande said yesterday he was expecting a wave of lay-offs to follow next weekend’s election, but pledged his government would not stand idly by as companies dismissed workers.
Border checks resume to block ECB protests
SPAIN: Authorities have temporarily restored border checks in Spain’s north-east and at two major airports in an attempt to stop protesters entering the country ahead of a European Central Bank meeting in Barcelona.
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng flees guards for US haven
A BLIND civil rights campaigner – jailed for highlighting forced abortions and sterilisation in rural China under Beijing’s one-child policy – has fled house arrest and is now under American protection, activists said yesterday.
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