The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s devastated Ogoniland could be the world’s largest-ever oil clean-up, a United Nations report said Thursday, the pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations more far reaching than thought.

Port-of-Spain: Local Government Minister Chandresh Sharma will spend another night at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital. The Minister was expected to be discharged sometime this morning, but following examination by doctors…

Scores of people died in and around the Syrian city of Hama, activists said, corroborating reports of widespread casualties a day after the start of a military clampdown. FULL STORY | AL-ASSAD CALLS FOR MULTI-PARTY SYSTEM

Tropical Storm Emily unleashed potentially life-threatening heavy rains across Haiti early Thursday, as nearly 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers waited on emergency standby. The Dominican Republic also was to see heavy rain.

Turkey appointed its new military chiefs at the end of four-day Supreme Military Council meeting on Thursday, filling the vacant positions after the country’s top four commanding officers left their jobs en masse last Friday.

Bridgetown. Jason Pellew, 28 , was placed in the custody of the Immigration Department yesterday. Pellew pleaded guilty in the District A Magistrates' Court to using disorderly behaviour within the…