Iraq’s death toll from violence in 2011 fell sharply from previous years, with nearly 1,000 fewer people being killed than in 2009 and 2010, official figures showed Sunday. A total of 2,645 people were killed last year as a result of violence, with December 2011 marking one of the lowest monthly tolls since the 2003 [...]
North Korea urged its people Sunday to defend new leader Kim Jong-Un to the death, in a new year newspaper editorial published by state media setting out policy for 2012. “The whole party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in [...]
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews, some wearing yellow stars or the uniforms of Holocaust death camp inmates, demonstrated Saturday against what they called media attacks against them over their efforts to segregate the sexes in public. The bearded men and young boys in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood were ostensibly gathered to protest the jailing of [...]
Kenya’s world championship marathon silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo won the women’s San Silvestre race here on Saturday in a record time of 48min 48sec. The 27-year-old – winner of the Paris and Turin Marathons during her career – beat home Wude Ayalew of Ethiopia while another Kenyan Eunice Kirwa was third for the second successive [...]
With glittering fireworks and celebrations from New Zealand to Times Square, the world eagerly welcomed a new year and hope for a better future Saturday, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil that many would rather forget. Revelers in Australia, Asia and the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which jumped [...]
Samoans celebrated in the streets at midnight Thursday when, with a song, a prayer and the ringing of bells, they wiped Friday off the calendar this week in a historic leap across the dateline. The midnight switch from Thursday, December 29 to Saturday, December 30 brought the Pacific island nation in line with its main [...]
Thousands of Cuban Catholics flocked to Havana Bay for an open-air mass marking the end of a 16-month island tour of the statue of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Cuba’s patron saint. The service was led by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the 73 year-old head of Cuba’s Catholic Church. Also present were senior members of [...]
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta conveyed his “deep concern” to Egypt’s military ruler over police raids on pro-democracy groups, the Pentagon said, after a major clampdown this week drew a torrent of criticism. In a phone call Friday to Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi that underscored Washington’s dismay over the issue, Panetta also thanked the military [...]
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