Reuters Image Caption: A woman, believed to be the relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries at the Beijing Capital International Airport (reuters tickers) March 8, 2014 - 04:06 By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday, the airline said in a statement, the plane likely missing in Vietnamese airspace. Flight...
Congolese warlord Germain Katanga has been convicted of involvement in war crimes by in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Judges found Katanga guilty of murder and pillage during an attack on a village more than a decade ago. They found he had made a "significant contribution"...
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal sentenced opposition leader Datuk SeriAnwar Ibrahim to five years imprisonment for sodomising former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008. EARLIER REPORT He was earlier convicted of sodomising former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008. The three-man...
SANAA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants shot dead a man in southeastern Yemen on Thursday for allegedly giving the United States information used to carry out drone strikes against militants, witnesses and the SITE monitoring service said. Residents said the man was found shot dead on a sandy football...
Ankara - Turkey's embattled prime minister has warned that his government could ban social media networks YouTube and Facebook after a raft of online leaks added momentum to a spiralling corruption scandal. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already...
Oscar Pistorius is back in court for the fifth day of his trial for the alleged murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Neighbour Johan Stipp is continuing his testimony. On Thursday, Dr Stipp told the court he found the South African athlete praying over the body of Ms Steenkamp as she lay dying....
