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The International Monetary Fund Chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was arrested on charges of raping a maid when he was trying to leave the country has been denied bail and ordered to be held at the New York City jail. The chief of the International Monetary Fund was spending the night in jail at Rikers Island, a 400-acre penal complex that ... Read More »

The police and the army have said that they have found a bomb in an Ireland bus and has been made safe. The bomb was detected and was defused just hours before the Queen’s arrival in Dublin. The device was found in the luggage compartment of a bus traveling on the outskirts of Maynooth in County Kildare west of Dublin, ... Read More »

A report of an engine fire forced an American Airlines flight to make an emergency landing Sunday, though no fire was found when the plane safely landed in Arkansas, authorities said. Little Rock National Airport officials said Flight 1720 landed at 4:08 p.m., about 15 minutes after the pilot declared an emergency. The twin-engine MD 80 jet was traveling from ... Read More »

Israeli troops shot Palestinian protesters who surged toward its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 13 people on the day Palestinians mourn the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the deadliest such confrontation in years of anniversary clashes usually confined to the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire in three separate border locations ... Read More »

The blame is on the economy for the demise of Las Vegas casino Sahara. Opened in 1952, the Sahara hosted everyone from Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis to Frank Sinatra and the Beatles in the 1950s and 60s, and their photos still decorate the walls above the reception. The spiraling economy has hit Las Vegas the worst with most casinos ... Read More »

A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in less than a week, officials said. An official from the media section of the Saudi embassy identified the man as a Saudi diplomat. Karachi police named him as Hassan al-Khatani. Pakistani police told ... Read More »

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been charged by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid. Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was taken off an Air France plane at JFK airport just minutes before it left for Paris. Police say he faces three charges, including attempted rape. His lawyers say he denies the ... Read More »