Police said two men — ages 64 and 42 — were arrested at Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth, in Wales, while a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, Obama told his audience that his generation's task was to reignite the true engine of America's growth – which he said was a rising, thriving middle class.
Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
KANO, Nigeria (AP):Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women gunned down while trying to administer polio vaccines, officials said yesterday.
Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP):Romanian food safety officials say the country produced 6,300 tons of horse, mule and donkey meat last year, and that it was correctly labelled when it was exported to other European countries.Amid a growing scandal over...
Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP):A fire on a Carnival float has killed four people and injured five in the Brazilian port city of Santos.A fire department official says the float caught fire shortly after the Sangue Jovem samba school ended its parade at dawn...
Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP):A Somali journalist is being detained without charge in Somalia for speaking out against the imprisonment of a fellow reporter, said an international human rights group.Daud Abdi Daud has been held without charge since February 5...
SRINAGAR (AP): Three young people were killed violently in the Indian-controlled Kashmir, despite a curfew that continued for a third day yesterday, following the execution of a Kashmiri man convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on India's Parliament....
KABUL (AP): The United States (US) began its withdrawal from Afghanistan in earnest, officials said yesterday, sending the first of what will be tens of thousands of containers home through a once-blocked land route through Pakistan....
THESSALONIKI (AP): When Greece adopted the euro, it poured billions into modernising its infrastructure, building spectacular bridges, highways, and a brand-new rail transit network for Athens.Now, locked in recession and crushed by debt...
CHARLESVILLE (AP):Eleven bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in Liberia, with Guinea's army chief of staff and top military officers among its passengers, officials said yesterday.The military officers were on their way...
HOUSTON (AP)Turns out even former presidents can fall prey to hackers.A mysterious email hacker apparently accessed private photos and messages sent between members of the George W Bush family.The US Secret Service is investigating the breach, which...
BERLIN (AP):Germany's education minister resigned yesterday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarised parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as it prepares for elections...
NEW DELHI (AP):India's government has failed to curb rampant sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state-run child-care facilities, a rights group said yesterday.The report from Human Rights Watch comes in the wake of the fatal gang rape...
LUSAKA (AP):A bus operated by Zambia's postal service carrying passengers towards its capital Lusaka smashed into a semi-truck and another car yesterday, killing at least 53 people in one of the worst traffic crashes in the nation in recent history,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):In a country where one in four women is raped and where months-old babies and 94-year-old grandmothers are sexually assaulted, citizens are demanding action after a teenager was gang-raped, sliced open from her stomach to her genitals,...
IRVING, United States (AP):Faced with intense pressure from two flanks, the Boy Scouts of America said yesterday it needed more time for consultations before deciding whether to move away from its divisive policy of excluding gays as scouts or adult...
SYDNEY (AP):A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands yesterday generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 metres (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and left at least four people missing and presumed dead in the South Pacific island chain....
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (CMC):Police have extended the bail of ex-premier McKeeva Bush to late March this year, after he presented himself to law-enforcement officers on Tuesday, in keeping with the terms of his original police bail following his...
OHIO (AP):A central Ohio man's heart sank when he realised that burglars had broken in and stolen a safe holding his most prized possession, a 300-year-old family Bible.The Bible, written in German Gothic script and containing the handwritten dates of...
