Detectives on the trail of ,7-million in stolen Versace jewellery thought they had a break in the case when they got a warrant to search a Manhattan storage room – only to find a cheap, ratty green recliner.
CNN began airing excerpts on Sunday from a cache of videotapes acquired in Afghanistan that purport to show al-Qaida terror training, bomb-making and poison gas experiments on dogs.
The huge drop in crime in New York City over the past few years has intrigued law enforcement agencies around the world. Behind the progress is political will, and an ingenious tool: CompStat.
A US federal court began preliminary hearings on Friday into a multibillion-dollar lawsuit brought by South African apartheid victims against a host of multinational corporations and banks.
New York City’s sexual subcultures will have an official address on Saturday when the first Museum of Sex opens its doors to the curious, the voyeurs, the scholars and those who want to educate themselves of centuries of sexual underworld.
At least 38-million people in Africa are threatened by hunger, caused mostly by a drought that is extending from the Horn of Africa to the southern part of the continent, warns the World Food Programme.
David Emil’s ‘Windows on the World’ was touted as the world’s most lucrative restaurant before the terrorist strikes of September 11 brought it crashing down 107 floors.
Against a backdrop of promised peace in Africa and possible war in the Gulf, President George Bush on Friday met with leaders of 11 African nations, many in the thick of that continent’s oil production.
CNN and CBS both paid for videotapes that depict al-Qaida poison gas experiments, but insisted that the money didn’t go to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organisation.
In a new book, New York’s former fire commissioner describes a department ”in complete disarray” on September 11, with many top officials missing and its people at the World Trade Center knowing less than television viewers.
In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor.
A group of private sector financial players on Tuesday laid out a new plan to combat Argentina-style meltdowns in emerging economies.
Watching television on September 11 could seriously damage your health, warn recent scientific studies.
Despite stock market woes that cost him -billion this year, Microsoft boss Bill Gates remains the richest person in the United States.
A conservative Jewish group in New York said on Monday it planned to put armed patrols on the streets to guard against possible terrorist attacks.
Stocks climbed on Thursday, boosted by strong orders for durable goods and a federal panel’s approval of a new key drug of Biogen Inc.
Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix on Friday warned Iraq against playing ”cat-and-mouse games” with weapons inspectors due to arrive there shortly under UN mandate.
In the waves of Roman Catholic sex scandals over recent years, a dozen bishops worldwide have been publicly accused of misconduct.
As the first anniversary of the September 11 tragedy approaches, plans for the World Trade Center site are in disarray, tainted by criticism that they’re boring and small-minded.
President Bush yesterday continued to assemble the team he hopes will get the US economy back on track with the nomination of William Donaldson as chairman of the securities and exchange commission.
The bronze miniature of French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s most famous sculpture, ”The Thinker,” which was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Towers, has disappeared, officials said on Monday.
Fears of war and a spiraling confidence crisis in Corporate America pummelled the broad stock market to an 8-month low on Thursday.
Evidence against men tried in the bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 shows that al-Qaeda has made eastern Africa an important base.
Leaders of nine African nations and scores of high-ranking world diplomats will meet next week to discuss the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an ambitious plan created by Africans to advance economic development.