• Malta

    Libyan hijackers plead not guilty - taken to court under heavy escort

    Two Libyan men who on Friday diverted an Afriqiyah Airways plane to Malta were taken to court under heavy police escort early this afternoon and pleaded not guilty to a range of charges including hijacking. Moussa Saha and Ali Ahmed Saleh, both in their 20s, were taken into the law courts ...

  • Malta

    Updated (4): Libyan hijackers plead not guilty to charges of terrorism

    The two Libyans who on Friday hijacked an internal Afriqiyah Airways plane and diverted it to in Malta have been taken to court under heavy escort. They were charged with committing acts of terrorism and terrorist activity.Saled Ali Ahmed Lano and Soko Moussa Shaha Ali, both in their 20s, entered the ...

  • Turchia USA Malta

    Updated (2): Firefighters, waiters, journalists - the thousands working on Christmas Day

    For many of us Christmas is all about spending the day with our families and loved ones, with the main highlight of the day being the traditional Christmas lunch.But thousands of workers are not so lucky and have to work on 25 December.Naturally, these include the disciplined forces. Crime does ...

  • Egitto Georgia (Country)

    Thousands of faithful celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem

    Thousands of pilgrims and tourists from around the world together with local Christians gathered in the biblical town of Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus, with spirits lifted by a slowdown in recent violence and cool, clear weather.Security was tight in Bethlehem after recent deadly ...

  • USA Malta Myanmar

    Updated: Knights of Malta to pope - Stay out of our internal affairs

    The Order of Malta, the ancient Roman Catholic aristocratic lay order, has told Pope Francis that his decision to launch an investigation into the ouster of a top official over an old condom scandal is "unacceptable."In an extraordinary rebuke of the pontiff, the group said late Friday that the replacement ...

  • Kenya Regno Unito

    2 million votes used to rig 2013 election - Raila

    Cord leader Raila Odinga has for the first time provided a detailed account of how he says Jubilee rigged and stole the 2013 election. The establishment jammed the electronic results transmission system and stuffed ballot boxes with two million extra votes to give Uhuru Kenyatta a first-round win, he told ...

  • Kenya

    Tripping badly: Why Raila has got it all wrong with the Rift Valley

    In 2013 shortly after the election of Uhuru Kenyatta, retired President Daniel Moi reportedly told the Kalenjin people that if they had listened to him in 2002, it would have been their turn at the presidency. To him, they had wasted a good decade in defiance after they rejected his ...

  • Spagna

    Sacyr con historial negativo

    El consorcio Sacyr – Agunsa (España y Chile) deberá superar el escollo de tener un historial negativo, puesto que la compañía española tuvo una rescisión de contrato en la administración del aeropuerto de Corvera, municipio de Murcia.

  • Corea del Sud

    [Herald Interview] ‘Investors will turn to logistics property for higher profits in 2017’

    The office market in Seoul saw a boom this year with foreign investment behemoths buying up two landmark office building

  • Pakistan

    The duty to defend the constitution (2)

    In Golak Nath v Punjab,(AIR [1967] SC 1643), which concerned a constitutional amendment that abolished property rights, the Supreme Court ruled that an amendment could not abridge fundamental rights even if it followed the constitutional procedure.In 1973, following the enactment of four constitutional amendments that limited the power of judges ...