KAKUMA, Kenya – Fighting in the Somali capital has claimed more than 230 lives in the past two weeks and fleeing civilians are so desperate they are giving away their last possessions for seats on a bus out of the city, United Nations officials said.

TEHRAN, Iran – The European Union yesterday condemned the stoning to death sentence passed against an Iranian woman convicted for adultery, saying it was “barbaric”.

Yahoo users can now use their Yahoo logins to sign up for Google services thanks to OpenID, with other providers coming soon. Google announced Tuesday that it was implementing the OpenID standard for its login process in hopes of making things easier for Internet users who have too many logins to keep track of, though whether users will actually use it remains to be seen. For those who aren't ...

Senior officials of the Ministry of Tourism and the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) were updated on the progress of the swanky Limegrove Lifestyle Centre last Friday.

ISLAND VILLAS, a property management and villa sales and rentals company based in Barbados, has launched its environmental policy.

POLICE are investigating an unnatural death at Chalky Mount, St Andrew, last night.

TWO BARBADIANS are assisting the police in connection with 461.78 pounds of cannabis seized around 1 a.m. yesterday in a locally registered boat.

Pacific Shore Holdings, Inc., announced today that they are expanding their sales force, yet again, in an effort to keep up with the public demand for wider distribution for their affordable diet and energy product lines, Burner Balm and Energy-X lip balm's. Â This time they are pairing up with Texas-based, Convenience Marketing Services, Inc. and the Florida-based Jet Hills group, to represent ...

The new guidelines for securing an intelligent power distribution network released build on a security framework released in January and are the product of a 450-member public-private working group headed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.