Two arrested after pharmacy siege

Just your friendly neighbourhood cops SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Islamist revolt. Around them, young boys on clanking bicycles ...

National Book award-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick recalls the lead-up to the first large-scale battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Bunker Hill. The author recounts that Boston, then a city of 15,000 inhabitants and under British ...

Boston was a city under siege Friday, as more than 9,000 police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles hunted for a teenager wanted for the deadly marathon bombings.

So far, we have not cancelled any bus services. We are in contact with all district SPs and DCPs in the city. Based on their advice, we will take a call on Tuesday morning whether to operate services or not, an APSRTC spokesperson said.

Srinagar, Mar 16: Taking a dig at the ruling National Conference led coalition over frequent siege of the old City, traders’ fraternity Saturday accused the government of resorting to step motherly treatment with the Shaher-e-Khass. “It seems that the ...

Police in Russia rescued several hostages held at a college in the southern city of Astrakhan and detained the hostage-taker who claimed to have a bomb, the interior ministry said.Four people, including two young girls, were held hostage at the Volga-Caspian ...

Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs on Sunday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally mixed city of Sunni Muslims and ...

, the Mexican army which supported the government of President Benito Juárez, siezed the point known as La Cruz in the city of Querétaro. Having imprisoned the local garrison, the republican troops used their artillery to fight the imperial ...