Police in Jamaica say they have arrested suspected drugs lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke on the outskirts of the capital, Kingston. Officials say he was detained at a roadblock accompanied by a Christian pastor, who said Mr Coke was going to the US embassy to hand himself in. The Jamaican government wants to extradite Mr Coke [...]
The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington in the wake of a magazine article that quotes him and aides criticising senior Obama administration officials and diplomats. Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologised over the article in Rolling Stone. In it, Gen McChrystal is quoted as saying he feels betrayed by US ambassador [...]
The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington, US media report, in the wake of a magazine article that mocked senior Obama administration officials and diplomats. Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologised for the article in Rolling Stone. In the article, Gen McChrystal said he felt betrayed by US ambassador to Kabul Karl [...]
The main suspect in an attempt to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square has admitted weapons and terrorism charges. Faisal Shahzad told a court in Manhattan he wanted “to plead guilty and 100 times more”. The Pakistani-born US citizen admitted all 10 charges so there will be no trial. He will [...]
A Deepwater Horizon rig worker has told the BBC that he identified a leak in the oil rig’s safety equipment weeks before the explosion. Tyrone Benton said the leak was not fixed at the time, but that instead the faulty device was shut down and a second one relied on. BP said rig owners Transocean [...]
Lying on his hospital bed in Andijan, in eastern Uzbekistan, 65-year-old Khikmatullo Urunbayev, an ethnic Uzbek grandfather from Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, had tears in his eyes as he lifted his arm for us to see. A bullet fired by an ethnic Kyrgyz gunman had shattered his bone a few days before. The agony, he [...]
Oil giant BP is to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill and will not pay shareholders a dividend this year. Barack Obama announced the compensation deal after talks at the White House with senior BP executives. Shortly afterwards, BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said dividends would not be [...]
US President Barack Obama has called on his party and supporters to back a “new future” of clean energy. Visiting areas affected by the BP oil spill, he said the full resources of government were being deployed, with 17,500 National Guard troops available. Mr Obama is touring Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, on his fourth visit [...]
US President Barack Obama has said the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11. In an interview with US website Politico, he said the disaster would “shape how we think about the environment… for years to come”. Later on Monday, Mr Obama will pay [...]
Saturday began with calm on the streets of Tehran but witnesses said scattered clashes erupted later in the evening between Iran’s security forces and demonstrators gathering at key sites to mark the first anniversary of a contested presidential election. The first skirmishes Saturday were reported at about 6 p.m. as uniformed riot police and plain-clothes [...]
