World

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru is broadening restrictions on commercial fishing to prevent the collapse of an important global fishery that has been “pillaged” to worrisome lows, the government said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York City police officer was convicted today of plotting to kidnap, cook and eat women following a trial that shed light on an underworld of people who derive pleasure from fantasizing online about cannibalism.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has expelled two Venezuelan diplomats in retaliation for Venezuela’s having last week ordered two US military attachés to leave the South American oil exporter, a US official said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition TV channel Globovision said on Monday it had accepted a buyout offer, calling its operations financially and politically unfeasible after rows with the government and high inflation.

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (Reuters) – Residents of the Falkland Islands voted almost unanimously to stay under British rule in a referendum aimed at winning global sympathy as Argentina intensifies its sovereignty claim, results showed yesterday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Roman Catholic cardinals gather under the gaze of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” today to elect a new pope to tackle the daunting problems facing the 1.2-billion-member Church.

GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea condemned a threatened UN investigation into its alleged human rights abuses yesterday and denounced a UN report as “faked material … invented by the hostile forces, defectors and other rabbles”.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A reformist member of China’s decision-making Politburo, Li Yuanchao, is set to become the country’s vice president this week instead of a more senior and conservative official best known for keeping the media in check, sources said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed yesterday to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down his pioneering ban on large sugary drinks sold by the city’s restaurants, movie theatres and other food service businesses just a day before it was to take effect.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Wall Street rose modestly today, lifting the Dow to another record and giving the S&P 500 its seventh straight advance as early weakness enticed buyers.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in Kenya’s presidential vote presents Western states with the challenge of keeping an elected leader charged with crimes against humanity at arms length while preserving valuable security and business ties.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The driver of the bus in which a young Indian woman was gang-raped and fatally injured in December hanged himself in his jail cell on Monday, prison authorities said, but his family and lawyer said they suspected “foul play”.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition leader vowed yesterday to fight late Hugo Chavez’s preferred successor for the presidency next month and the pair quickly locked horns in an angry war of words.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Antibiotic resistance poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor surgery risk dying from infections that can no longer be treated, Britain’s top health official said yesterday.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai ratcheted up his criticism of the United States today, marring a debut visit by the new U.S.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition as postponed a meeting to form a provisional government, in the latest setback to opposition efforts to create an administration to take over if President Bashar al-Assad is ousted, coalition sources said today.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for crimes against humanity, was declared winner of Kenya’s presidential election yesterday, but rival Raila Odinga said he would challenge the outcome in court and asked supporters to avoid violence.

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian protesters torched buildings in Cairo and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt international shipping on the Suez Canal, as a court ruling on a deadly soccer riot stoked rage in a country beset by worsening security.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should consider leaving the European Convention on Human Rights because it interferes with the government’s ability to fight crime and control immigration, Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May said yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China unveiled details of a government restructuring plan today, which will see the number of cabinet-level entities reduced by two, including the dissolving of the powerful Railways Ministry.