World

(Trinidad Express) Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago awoke to darkness early Friday morning after a major natural gas disruption shut down turbines at all three of the country’s power generation plants late Thursday night.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential election victory today and his defeated rival accepted the ruling, helping douse tensions after tribal violence blighted the election five years ago.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea said today it was entering a “state of war” with South Korea in a continuing escalation of tough rhetoric against Seoul and Washington after coming under international sanctions for its nuclear test.

NICOSIA,  (Reuters) – Big depositors in Cyprus’s largest bank stand to lose far more than initially feared under a European Union rescue package to save the island from bankruptcy, a source with direct knowledge of the terms said on Friday.

SOWETO, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South African former President Nelson Mandela is in good spirits and making progress, doctors said today, after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero was taken to hospital for the third time in four months for a lung infection.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande declared yesterday that companies would have to pay a 75 percent tax on salaries over a million euros after his plan for a “super-tax” on individuals was knocked down by the constitutional court.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent’s first victim of climate change, researchers said.

SEOUL/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – North Korea put its missile units on standby yesterday to attack U.S.

NICOSIA – Cyprus conceded on Thursday that tight capital controls would remain in force longer than expected as the island’s banks reopened for the first time after the government was forced to accept a tough EU rescue package to avoid bankruptcy.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Justin Timberlake’s first album since 2006 made a bumper U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt said yesterday that he will return to jail for his conviction linked to the 1993 Mumbai bombings, giving up a long-running legal battle for his freedom.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, one of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, is selling some of her diamond jewelry to raise money for stem cell research, saying now is the time to give back for the fortunate life she has had.

(Reuters) – Pioneering journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said today, renewing concerns about the health of the revered anti-apartheid leader.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court seemed to be leaning yesterday toward striking down a law that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples in a move that would reflect a shift in Americans’ attitudes about gay marriage.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – One of the largest ever cyber attacks is slowing global internet services and the disruption could get worse, experts said yesterday, after an organisation blocking “spam” content became a target.

NICOSIA,  (Reuters) – Cyprus trucked out cash for its banks last night to prepare them to reopen to a siege by anxious depositors, with tough controls imposed on the use of currency to avert a bank run as a result of its harsh rescue deal.

SEOUL – Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – One of the largest ever cyber attacks is slowing global internet services and the disruption could get worse, experts said today, after an organisation blocking “spam” content became a target.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Egyptian appeals court today ordered the ministry of justice to reinstate the prosecutor general sacked by President Mohamed Mursi in November, cancelling his decision to appoint a new one, the court judge said.