December 25, 2011
Sudan army ‘kills’ key Darfur rebel Khalil Ibrahim
It says Khalil Ibrahim was killed in fighting in the Wad Banda area in North Kordofan. The claim has not been independently verified. Khalil Ibrahim is known as the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement in conflict-torn Darfur. Earlier this…
December 25, 2011
Queen visits Prince Philip in hospital
Prince Philip has spent a second night in hospital after undergoing a procedure on his heart. The 90-year-old Duke of Edinburgh had a coronary stent fitted after he was taken to hospital on Friday suffering chest pains. The BBC's Royal Correspondent…
December 25, 2011
Nigeria conflict: Boko Haram sect battles kill scores
Nearly 70 people have died in days of fighting between Nigerian forces and suspected Islamist gunmen in the country's north-east, officials say. More than 50 Boko Haram militants were killed in a lengthy gun-battle in the town of Damaturu, said army…
December 25, 2011
Protesters take to Moscow streets, calling for fair elections
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Moscow, braving bitterly cold weather to demand fair elections after what they claim were rigged results earlier this month that returned Vladimir Putin's party to power. The protest,…
December 24, 2011
Bolt, Suarez leading Latina poll
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez have so far topped the poll for Sportsman Of The Year in Latin America and the Caribbean conducted by the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina. World record holder Bolt and ace striker…
December 24, 2011
NBA reduces player suspensions
The NBA has reduced suspensions for the Lakers' Andrew Bynum and the Pistons' Charlie Villanueva by one game because of the shortened season. The league on Friday trimmed one game off the five-game ban Bynum was given for knocking the Mavericks'…
December 24, 2011
Allen Stanford ruled fit for trial over ‘Ponzi scheme’
A US federal judge has ruled Texan financier Allen Stanford is mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly operating a $7bn (£4.5bn) Ponzi scheme. Mr Stanford, 61, is accused of one of the biggest white-collar fraud cases since Bernard Madoff. The…
December 24, 2011
Burrell back in the fold
Well-known personalities Horace Burrell, Ronald Jones and Yves Jean-Bart were among nine administrators appointed to restore the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to normality over the next five months. Burrell, the suspended president of the Jamaica…
December 24, 2011
Fifa riding roughshod over CFU officials—Jack
Former vice-president of world football governing body FIFA, Jack Warner, says the organisation is engaged in a hostile takeover of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and it must be stopped. Warner said FIFA had “no locus standi or even hierarchical…
December 24, 2011
St Kitts welcomes inaugural non-stop commercial flight from Canada
The Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport will today welcome its first non-stop commercial flight from Canada. Government said the Air Canada flight from Toronto will make St. Kitts and its sister island, Nevis, a more viable winter destination…