Sen. Barack Obama won the Maryland primary to choose a Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday.For the first time Sen. Barack Obama may  lead over Sen.Hillary Clinton in terms of delegate tally. Continue Reading

Australia is sending additional police officers and soldiers to East Timor following an assassination attempt on the country’s president Jose Ramos-Horta and prime minister.Mr Ramos-Horta remains in a serious but stable condition.”Our country is right now in an extraordinary situation where a state of emergency will bring us back to normality,I ask for your help.” said Mr Gutterres in a televised address.

Up to 100 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze that ravaged the famous markets area in Camden Town, north London.

The fire was reportedly centred on Camden Canal Market, to the east of Chalk Farm Road.

BBC NEWS | UK | Blaze ravages London market area.

The Pentagon has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks said Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann,the legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system.Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks, in which hijacked planes were flown into buildings in New York and Washington, Mohammed al-Qahtani, the man officials have labeled the 20th hijacker; Ramzi Binalshibh, said to have been the main intermediary between the hijackers and leaders of Al Qaeda; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al-Baluchi, a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been identified as Mohammed’s lieutenant for the 2001 operation; al-Baluchi’s assistant, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi; and Waleed bin Attash, a detainee known as Khallad, who investigators say selected and trained some of the hijackers.

East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta is in a stable condition after he was shot at around 0600 on Monday (2100GMT Sunday) in the stomach by rebel soldiers,Alfredo Reinado, a renegade soldier who had threatened to use force against the government, in a pre-dawn attack, a spokesman said.

A 23-year-old British woman is to appear in court over a bomb hoax which led to the evacuation of of 161 staff at North Sea oil platform.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One, that the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.Dr Rowan Williams said that UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.H added that an approach to law which simply said that there is one law for everybody is a bit of a danger.Dr Rowan Williams said that Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court, and that they should not have to choose between “the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty”.

A female student at Louisiana Technical College shot and killed two women in a classroom at one of the school’s Baton Rouge campuses today before committing suicide, police said.”It appears that one of the deceased is the actual shooter. She shot two other young women in the classroom, killing them before turning the gun on herself. She did not at any point leave the classroom; no other students outside of the classroom were involved or were in any danger.”said Sgt. Don Kelly in a televised press conference.

The international manhunt for Dr. Amit Kumar has ended. The mastermind behind the cash for organs ring was nabbed in Saurah. The Nepalese town is 150 km south of Kathmandu ending a trail of terror.Dr. Kumar was carrying $145,000 U.S. funds along with a cheque for 900,000 euros when he was captured by a special police Continue Reading

Repulican Mitt Romney former Massachusetts governor with 294 delegates to the Republican National Convention is expected to suspend his struggling presidential campaign today, according to online political blog and the Associated Press

A decapitated body has been found wrapped in a blood-stained duvet behind a row of shops at Kingsgate Place in Kilburn in north-west London.A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the dead person is an adult male, but no head has been found and the victim has not been identified.

Canadian police have located a house in Brampton, Ontario owned by Amit Kumar, a kingpin of a ring that removed kidneys of poor laborers in India for transplantation to the highest bidding patients. Kumar has been dubbed “Dr. Horror” by the Indian press.

Super Tuesday’s results provided both Democratic presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, with significant wins. On the Republican side, Arizona Senator John McCain surged ahead of his main rival, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged several states in the American South overnight, killing at least 31 people, the Associated Press says, injuring dozens and causing widespread damage.Deaths have been reported so far in Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky.

The voters of 24 American States pronounce on Tuesday on their candidate for the presidential election of November 4th, on the occasion of more opened “Super Tuesday” than ever.
Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will confront one another in a very gripped duel, while at the republicans John MCcain definitely hopes to get rid of his big rival Mitt Romney
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President Bush submitted a federal budget of $3.1 trillion on Monday, declaring that the spending plan would keep the United States safe and prosperous and, that would boost military spending and trim health benefits for retirees.“Our formula for achieving a balanced budget is simple: Create the conditions for economic growth, keep taxes low, and spend taxpayer dollars wisely or not at all,”said President Bush.For Democrats, the Bush budget “is fiscally irresponsible and highly deceptive, hiding the costs of the war in Iraq while increasing our skyrocketing debt,President Bush’s fiscal policies are the worst in our nation’s history — he has turned record surpluses into record deficits — and this budget is more of the same,” Said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader,in a statement.