Category Archives: Top news
Cannes festival rocked by $1m jewellery heist
Jewellery worth more than $1m which was due to be loaned to film stars has been stolen from a Cannes hotel in a pre-dawn heist. An American female employee of Swiss jewellers
Australian jailed over Indian student murder
An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase has been jailed for 45 years for the murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald,
Hackers target Saudi government website
Several government websites in Saudi Arabia were hacked in a series of heavy cyber attacks from overseas in recent days, disabling them briefly until the attacks were repelled, the government has said.
Deadly blasts hit mosques in Pakistan
Police say bombings in two separate mosques in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 12 people. Sources tell Al Jazeera that 50 have been wounded and many are in critical condition. Both
Nigerian forces ‘shell fighter camps’
A security official in northeast Nigeria says soldiers have shelled suspected camps of armed groups in the region, killing at least 21 people. The official said on Friday that the fighting happened
Republicans blast IRS for keeping scandal quiet, seek names of those responsible
Republican lawmakers accused IRS officials Friday of “lying” to members of Congress about the targeting of conservative groups, as they grilled the outgoing commissioner in the first hearing on the scandal. They
UN peacekeepers abducted near Syria border
Four UN peackeepers are being held in the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, where neither Israeli nor Syrian forces can operate. Josephine Guerrero, spokeswoman for the United Nations
US and Russia bid to revive Syria peace talks
The United States and Russia have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed, offering to hold an international conference in search of peace. UN-Arab League
Tough Slog for Obama’s Gun Orders
More than four months later, not only has Congress rejected new firearms restrictions, but some of the more modest steps the president initiated also face hurdles. His nominee to lead the Bureau
Fleeing Bangladesh Building Owner Caught
An elite paramilitary unit in Bangladesh apprehended the fugitive owner of a building that collapsed last week, as the death toll approached 400. Sohel Rana, who had been in hiding since his
Syrian warplanes launch ‘attacks’ in Damascus
Syrian warplanes have carried out several air raids on rebel-held areas in and around Damascus, while fresh clashes between troops and rebels have erupted in the eastern and southern suburbs of the
UN ‘considers’ peacekeeper deployment in Mali
The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution to approve the creation of a 12,600-strong UN peacekeeping force in Mali starting on July 1, which would be able to request the
Investigators hunt for clues in Boston blasts
Investigators are searching for the person or group responsible for planting two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three people and wounded more than 100 others. Police and Federal
Obama asks Congress for ‘BRAIN Initiative’
President Barack Obama has proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain
Eurozone unemployment rate hits record high
Unemployment rose to a record high of 12 percent in February in the Eurozone, according to the latest data released by the EU’s official statistics agency. The Belgium-based Eurostat said on Tuesday
Google faces EU action over privacy policy
Six European countries, including France and Britain, have launched a joint action against Google to get the US Internet giant to scale back on new monitoring powers that watchdogs believe violate EU
Putin orders officials to drop foreign assets
Russian officials have three months to get rid of financial assets abroad as part of a campaign led by President Vladimir Putin to stem corruption and capital flight. Sergei Ivanov, Putin’s chief
South Africa says Mandela ‘much better’
The ailing 94-year-old, who served as South Africa’s first black president, was making a steady improvement and doctors were happy with his progress, President Jacob Zuma’s office said in a statement on
North Korea blocks S Korea from joint zone
North Korea has banned the entry of South Koreans to a joint industrial complex in a rare move amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula, the South’s Unification Ministry said. Wednesday’s move
US vows to defend South amid N Korea threats
In a show of solidarity, standing side-by-side with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se after talks in Washington, Kerry denounced “unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the past days”. The
Al-Qaida-linked gunmen free 2 Filipino hostages in Philippines but still hold foreign captives
Abu Sayyaf gunmen have freed two Filipino crewmen of a Jordanian TV journalist who were kidnapped last year but the al-Qaida-linked militants continued to hold the reporter and four other foreigners in
Iranian space official says photo shows wrong monkey
One of two official packages of photos of Iran’s famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior
Ex-Navy SEAL was reportedly helping alleged murderer work through PTSD
The former top Navy SEAL sniper who authorities say was killed at a Texas shooting range was devoted to maintaining camaraderie and helping his fellow veterans find their way after leaving active
US military expands its billion dollar drug war in Latin America
The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped
At least 8 dead after Mexican tour bus crashes east of Los Angeles
A tour bus collided with a car and pickup truck, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others Sunday night on a Southern California mountain highway, authorities said. California Highway
Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the Super Bowl
A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco
New York mom killed by blow to the head in Turkey, police say
A New York City woman found dead after vanishing while vacationing in Istanbul suffered a fatal blow to the head, officials say. Turkish forensic experts said Sunday though they have finished their
Israel suggests responsibility for airstrike on Syria, as Assad warns forces ready to confront any ‘aggression’
Israel’s defense minister indicated Sunday that his country was behind the airstrike on Syria last week, in the first public comments from his government on the attack that U.S. officials said targeted
