adminHamilton fastest in Korean practice
LEWIS Hamilton kept championship leader Sebastian Vettel off the top of the timesheets in both yesterday practice sessions for the Korean Formula One Grand Prix while Kimi Raikkonen slammed his…
Woman shot dead after White House scare
US police have shot a female motorist dead after she led them on a high-speed chase from near the White House through the streets of downtown Washington to the Capitol…
Africa to debate ICC role amid growing opposition
Addis Ababa – African leaders will debate the continent’s “relationship” with the International Criminal Court at a special summit on 11 October, officials said yesterday, amid growing opposition to the…
Kenyan rioters torch church after Muslim cleric killed
Mombasa – Rioters set fire to a protestant church in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa yesterday, in furious battles with the police sparked by the killing of a Muslim cleric,…
Flash drive bomb sent to scribe
ROME – An Italian journalist who reports on the construction of a highly contested new high-speed rail line has been sent a flash drive filled with explosive, Italian media reported…
Russia disappointed by Obama cancellation of Asia trip
MOSCOW – The Kremlin expressed disappointment yesterday over US President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel a trip to Asia that could have seen him discuss the Syria crisis with Russian…
Italy mourns drowned asylum seekers
LAMPEDUSA – Italy yesterday mourned the 300 African asylum-seekers feared dead in the worst ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, as the government appealed for Europe to stem the influx of migrants.
Inspectors gear up to disable chemical weapons in Syria
DAMASCUS – International inspectors were yesterday gearing up to disable the chemical weapons programme in war-hit Syria after reporting “encouraging” progress in a day of meetings with regime officials.
Axe-wielding robbers strike in Paris shop
PARIS – About 15 men, some of them wielding axes and sledgehammers, yesterday burst into a luxury watch store in the heart of Paris in broad daylight and made off…
Pope says Church should rid itself of ‘worldliness’
ASSISI (Italy) – Pope Francis yesterday called for the Catholic Church and its faithful to rid themselves of earthly concerns like St Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage to the…