World

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York Police Department whistleblower’s report that his precinct was systematically under-reporting crime – an act that resulted in a suspension and time in a psychiatric ward – has been validated by an internal department investigation.

(Reuters) – Greece averted the immediate threat of an uncontrolled default yesterday when a sufficient number of private creditors agreed on a bond swap deal that will cut the country’s public debt and clear the way for a new bailout.

(Reuters) – Uganda said yesterday it would catch Joseph Kony dead or alive, after a video spotlighting the atrocities of his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) swept the Internet and drew a wave of international support.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane yesterday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.

MANAMA, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated yesterday to demand urgent political reforms, in what witnesses said was the biggest demonstration in a year of unrest.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Six world powers demanded Iran keep its promise to let international inspectors visit a military installation where the U.N.

BEIRUT/PARIS,  (Reuters) – Four more high-ranking officers have defected from the Syrian armed forces and joined the year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, two rebel groups said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Chinese cyberwarfare would pose a genuine risk to the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama praised the African state of Ghana yesterday as a model of democracy and growth in a continent that many Americans associate with poverty and violence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s press watchdog confirmed yesterday it was disbanding, a move seen as inevitable after the self-regulating body lost almost all credibility for failing to address a phone-hacking scandal at one of Rupert Murdoch’s British papers.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – The U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos accompanied a Syrian Arab Red Crescent team yesterday into a former rebel-held district of Homs where dissidents have reported bloody reprisals by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

BOSTON – Mitt Romney’s campaign told his Republican presidential rivals yesterday they could not catch him and nudged them to quit the race even though he failed to deliver a knockout blow in the biggest round of nominating contests.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s latest iPad sports a crisper display and an array of technology advances that, while less than revolutionary, may prove enough for now to keep rivals like Amazon.com

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Russia accused Libya during a U.N. Security Council meeting yesterday of running a training centre for Syrian rebels and arming the fighters in their battle to overthrow the country’s President Bashar al-Assad.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A Miami high school honors student who faced imminent deportation to Colombia has won a two-year reprieve after 2,000 fellow students took to the city’s streets to protest her removal from the United States, federal authorities said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim retained his position atop Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires yesterday with an estimated worth of $69 billion, while his Mexican rival Ricardo Salinas Pliego enjoyed the largest increase in wealth.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faced growing Western anger yesterday for preventing aid from entering a devastated district of Homs and over accusations of human rights abuses, including pictures said to show torture victims at a hospital in the city.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Rahul Gandhi failed spectacularly to deliver a promised comeback for his Congress party in crucial state elections, casting fresh doubt on his capacity to become the next member of a storied dynasty to lead the country.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria‘s President Bashar al-Assad faces growing pressure for blocking humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, with the UN humanitarian chief set to visit the country this week and the broadcast of harrowing pictures said to show torture victims at a hospital in the embattled city of Homs Secretly shot video footage aired yesterday by a British television station shows what it said were Syrian patients being tortured by medical staff at a state-run hospital in Homs.