Month: May 2012

Schapelle Corby, the Australian serving time in a Bali prison on a conviction of drug smuggling, has had her jail term cut by five years.

Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe.

It’s an annual tragedy in Singapore: domestic maids falling to their deaths from high rise apartments, often while carrying out duties such as cleaning outside windows.

South Korea is set to carry out the chemical castration of a serial rapist later this week, implementing recent legislation for the first time.

Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday about Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.