A man who used a sledgehammer to inflict fatal head injuries to his mother and two brothers has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment.Christopher Oliver, 26, who was employed as a clerk at the Taxpayer Audit and...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Ramble Community Development Committee (CDC) is rejecting claims by Water Minister Dr Horace Chang that the Royale Rest Cemetery in Ramble, Hanover, will not affect the community's underground water...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it will be reintroducing its express service come Monday.The bus service was temporarily discontinued in February as the cash-strapped company sought to refurbish several of its regular buses, which were out...
The assistant commissioner of police in charge of the Anti-Corruption Branch, Justin Felice, says 24 members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have been arrested and charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act since the start of the...
Christians are being severely persecuted in Iraq. German churches arenow urging the government to be generous in granting them asylum - andhave encountered broad support.The peaceful, idyllic scenery outside their window is completelyforeign to them. The house in the western
Ban Ki-moon speaks out amid global food shortage; 33 countries facing unrest as families go hungry.United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has called for acomprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in globalfood prices - partly caused by
George Bush Friday promised to send more troops to Afghanistan afterhis departure from the White House next year, whatever the status oftroop withdrawals from Iraq.The pledge, delivered at a NATOsummit in Bucharest, would add a "significant" number of troops inAfghanistan
The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Cuba to become self-reliant inits agricultural production. The country's innovative solution wasurban organic farming, the creation of "organonponicos". But will itsurvive a change of government?Below the high ceilings of the Telegraph hotel in
In public, NATO is demanding that all alliescontribute their fair share to the ongoing effort in Afghanistan. Butbehind closed doors, a paper has been circulated that may provide thebeginnings of an exit strategy. Germany is pushing the plan. So far,
Some 30 officers from elite police units and the armed forces inGermany are under investigation over allegations they secretly trainedLibyan security forces on their own time and without permission.More than 30 German elite police officers and soldiers are underinvestigation over
The smiles in Bucharest were little more than show. Politically, theNATO summit was a fiasco. The Western alliance remains deeply dividedand faces an identity crisis - with Russian relations just one of thealliance's many points of dispute.Around 40 presidents, prime
Germany's second biggest state-owned bank, Bayerische Landesbank, revealed Thursday that the global credit crunch has cost the bank â ¬4.3 billion ($6.7 billion) - far more than it hadpreviously predicted and more than any German state-owned bank hassuffered so far.BayernLB,
Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have made morethan $109 million since they left the White House seven years ago, accordingto tax records released Friday. The Clintons paid more than $33 million in taxes on their income anddonated about
German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee is being investigated by public prosecutors on suspicion that he aided the enrichment of others while he was mayor of Leipzig. His spokesman has denied the accusation.
TAXPAYERS have picked up a cleaning bill of nearly £5,000 for Gordon Brown, and John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, ate his way through £4,000 of groceries in o
AT last, the Gospel according to Tony Blair. As prime minister he permitted his spokesman to declare: "we don't do God", now, as a retired elder statesman he decid
WHILE Alex Salmond, the First Minister, is pressing the flesh of the great and the good in the United States, and telling them how fantastic his home country is, trouble has
