Taiwan executes four prisoners
TAIWAN – Taiwan has executed four prisoners in the first death sentences to be carried out since 2005, the state Central News Agency said. Justice Minister Tseng Yung-fu approved the executions on Wednesday, More...
Saudi king photo with women spices mixing debate
KSA – Saudi newspapers ran front page pictures on Friday of King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz in a crowd of women with their faces bared, adding fuel to the growing fight over mixing in More...
Google’s nightmare: Facebook ‘Like’ replaces links
London, England — Facebook dropped a bombshell on the tech industry last week in the form of a Web-wide “Like” button and the launch of the “Open Graph.” Using this new platform, Web More...
Sarkozy, other leaders in Shanghai for World Expo
SHANGHAI – Shanghai was counting down Friday to the opening of the 2010 World Expo, a six-month event that kicks off with a lavish riverside display of fireworks and lights expected to rival the Beijing Olympics’ More...
Australia’s ‘baby-faced killer’ buried in golden casket
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Notorious Australian mobster Carl Williams was buried in a golden coffin Friday after a lavish funeral which drew a large crowd of mourners and blanket media coverage after his savage jailhouse More...
Rescue mission under way for Mexican journalists
OAXACA, Mexico – Police and rescuers failed to find two journalists stranded for a third day among feuding militants in a remote village after their caravan of Mexican and European rights activists was caught More...
O’Brien: I wouldn’t have done what Jay Leno did
NEW YORK – In his first post-”Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly More...
Swiss don’t want secret testimony in Polanski case
GENEVA – Swiss authorities say an attempt by Roman Polanski’s lawyers to unseal secret testimony by a Los Angeles prosecutor and submit it to them is irrelevant to their decision whether to extradite the More...