World

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. senator called for an  investigation of News Corp following the telephone hacking  scandal at one of its British newspapers, signaling the crisis  could spread to the United States.

LONDON, (Reuters) – “The basic test of a decent  police force is that it catches more criminals than it employs.”

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former media mogul Conrad Black has been ordered to report to prison on September 6 to serve out his prison sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, according to US court documents filed yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN Security Council voted yesterday to wind down a peacekeeping force in Sudan that was operating in volatile border areas, but said it was willing to keep working there until new security arrangements are agreed.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court handed down life sentences yesterday to five ultra-nationalists convicted of the racist murders of 27 people, and shorter prison terms to eight members of their group.

SYUKEYEVO, Russia (Reuters) – Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive yesterday after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia’s worst river accident in three decades.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British government lawyers are  drawing up plans to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy out the  broadcaster BSkyB, the Independent newspaper said on Monday — a  move that could spare Prime Minister David Cameron a potentially  damaging parliamentary vote.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia unveiled its most  sweeping economic reform in decades on Sunday with a plan to tax  carbon emissions from the nation’s worst polluters, reviving  hopes of stronger global climate action with the largest  emissions trade scheme outside Europe.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Interpol has circulated arrest  warrants for four suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese  statesman Rafik al-Hariri, U.N.-backed

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper  reported yesterday that News of the World journalists had  offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private  phone records of victims of the Sept.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is  withholding some $800 million in military assistance to  Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on U.S. 

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Nearly 100 people were missing  after a tourist boat sank in Russia’s Volga river yesterday,  killing at least one person, emergency services officials said.

JUBA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence yesterday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil payments unresolved.

(Trinidad Guardian) The government is taking legal action against G-pan inventor Professor Brian Copeland and three associates for profiting from sale of the G-Pan whose intellectual rights are owned by the government, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – In a moment of celebration tinged with sorrow and no little anger, the staff of Britain’s best-selling News of the World tabloid cheered as they left their offices yesterday for the last time.

GUATEMALA CITY  (Reuters) – Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early yesterday when gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said.

JUBA, (Reuters) – Thousands of South Sudanese danced  in the streets today (last night local time) to mark their long-awaited  independence, a hard-won separation from the north that also  plunged the fractured region into a new period of uncertainty.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police arrested David Cameron’s  former spokesman yesterday over the scandal that has shut down  Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, forcing the prime minister  to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the  British press.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – An airliner ploughed into dense  forest as it tried to land during a rainstorm in the Democratic  Republic of Congo yesterday, killing 127 people on board, the  Congolese transport ministry said.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan shopkeepers, who  shuttered shops for two days this week to protest over the cost  of doing business, have complained about an influx of Chinese,  prompting the government to promise a headcount of immigrants.