Spanish judge to lead Assange defence
Source: The Courier-Mail
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-09-25 09:45:01 -0700 | political-news
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon to lead the legal team representing the group and its founder, Julian Assange. Garzon won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases. He is best known for indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet...
Turkey starts oil, gas search in north Cyprus
Source: The Daily Star
Ankara :: Turkey | updated 2012-06-26 14:58:22 -0700 | green-news
Turkey began exploratory drilling for oil and gas Thursday in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus, heightening a dispute over who is entitled to the Mediterranean island's potential fuel riches. The move counters an offshore gas search by rival...
Thousands of Norwegians to sing song Breivik hates
Source: Leader Post Online
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-06-26 14:58:20 -0700 | entertainment-news
Thousands of Norwegians were to gather in Oslo on Thursday to protest against mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by singing a folk song he hates and which he considers a Marxist indoctrination method. After an Internet campaign, more than 5,000...
Nine kids in car: drunk mum to plead guilty
Source: The Age
Epping :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-26 04:19:11 -0700 | political-news
Prosecutor Hew Roberts told Melbourne Magistrates Court the woman, Tanya Chilly, would admit to being over the limit and unlicensed when she crashed her car, injuring several of the children. Chilly will plead guilty to three counts of dangerous driving...
Unmarried mother of three set to become francei¿½s new first lady delivers veiled attack on Carla ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Paris :: France | updated 2012-08-11 18:43:54 -0700 | political-news
24 April 2012 The divorcee who is on course to become France's next first lady today suggested she will be a far more modest one than Carla Bruni. Valerie Trierweiler, 47, is the partner of Francois Hollande, the Socialist who...
Ways to kill Emily Longley discussed, court hears
Source: Wellington Dominion
Bournemouth :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-24 20:55:35 -0700 | political-news
Drowning Emily Longley in a bath, dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire or forcing a drug overdose, were just some of the things Elliot Turner allegedly discussed before her death by strangulation, an England court has heard....
Witnesses testify about Breivik's bomb
Source: United Press International
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-06-24 20:54:49 -0700 | sports-news
A guard testified on the destruction he saw when a bomb blew up a Norway government building in Oslo during the trial of confessed mass killer Anders Breivik. Tor Inge Kristoffersen, a government security employee, said Tuesday he was in...
Teenager declared brain-dead by FOUR doctors makes miracle recovery moments before life support ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Four :: France | updated 2012-06-24 10:42:03 -0700 | technology-news
Doctors described Steven Thorpe as 'truly a unique case' after he awoke from a two-week coma following a multiple car crash that left him needing a machine to stay alive. Steven was 17 years old when he suffered horrific injuries...
Egypt military confirms ban on Mubarak officials
Source: NOW Lebanon
Mena :: Ukraine | updated 2012-06-24 15:48:57 -0700 | political-news
The decision by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, ratifying an amendment to the political rights law approved by parliament on April 12, means former Mubarak premier Ahmed Shafiq could be barred from standing in the May election. Tantawi "ratified the amendments...
Wen Jiabao Arrives in Sweden, to Welcoming Committee and Protests
Source: Epoch Times
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2012-06-24 10:41:23 -0700 | business-news
SwedenWhen Chinese regime officials visit other countries, they are often greeted by loud protests. On Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to Sweden on Monday, there were protests, but there was also a welcoming committee drawn from a surprising source. Early in...
Court hears Bin Laden testimony
Source: BBC
Gloucester :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-24 10:41:23 -0700 | travel-news
US court hears Bin Laden testimony from UK bomb plotter Saajid Badat has refused to travel to the trial because he fears arrest in the US A British man convicted of plotting to blow up an aircraft has told a...
The fox attack myth, by BBC man: Chris Packham says he doesn't believe people who are attacked by ...
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-24 05:38:14 -0700 | entertainment-news
Chris Packham has come to the defence of the urban fox and said he doesn't believe people who say they have been attacked by them Chris Packham is becoming something of a champion for some of our less endearing wild...
Egypt will not license eight US NGOs
Source: NOW Lebanon
Mena :: Ukraine | updated 2012-06-24 00:35:26 -0700 | political-news
Egypt has refused to license eight US civil groups, including the election-monitoring Carter Center, amid a crackdown on foreign NGOs and a month before presidential polls, state media reported Monday...The news agency quoted a government source as saying it refused...
Victims of PPI scandal swindled twice say watchdogs as many are unaware claims firms take a fee
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-23 04:17:08 -0700 | business-news
The scandal of mis-sold payment protection insurance is being compounded by claims firms ripping off consumers who seek compensation, watchdogs said yesterday. Households are being swindled twice first by the banks which mis-sold them the unnecessary product, and then by...
Spy found dead in a holdall 'was being followed in the weeks before he died'
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-22 13:06:59 -0700 | sports-news
Why did it take colleagues eight days to realise he was missing? What happened to Mr Williams's possessions that he kept in a shared locker at the MI6 headquarters? Why have letters gone missing between the coroner and police in...
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