WASHINGTON: The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad targeted and killed US reporter Marie Colvin in February 2012 to stop her from covering government atrocities, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Saturday.
WASHINGTON: Sydney Schanberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who chronicled the Khmer Rouge's brutal rise to power in Cambodia in the 1970s, died Saturday at age 82.
BARBADOS: Star West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle has welcomed newborn daughter into his family and apparently christened her ‘Blush’, according to his tweet on Thursday.
SOUTHPORT, AUSTRALIA: A television reporter on Australia's Gold Coast screamed out in surprise when an escaped parrot named Lola landed on her shoulder just as she was about to report live on camera.
Australian sports journalist Mel McLaughlin, who made headlines following West Indian batsman Chris Gayle asked her out during a live TV interview, has been slammed on social media for offering to buy a former cricketer a drink.
LAHORE: Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi lost his temper when a reporter raised a point over his performance as a team skipper, prompting Afridi to term question a “crap”.
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump denied Thursday even knowing a disabled New York Times reporter whose jerking arm movements the bombastic billionaire seemed to make fun of in a campaign speech.
MANILA: A Philippine radio reporter has been shot dead, police and colleagues said Monday, in the latest attack in a country known for dozens of unsolved killings of journalists.
LONDON: Mazher Mahmood, a British journalist whose undercover work posing as a "fake sheikh" led to a number of high-profile criminal court cases, was charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
PESHAWAR: In a tragic episode, a reporter belonging to ARY News channel lost two of her cousins in the deadly school attack that rocked Peshawar on Wednesday, ARY News reported.
WASHINGTON: A reporter for the Washington Post in Iran who has been detained for over four months was charged on Saturday, the newspaper reported, quoting a source familiar with the case.
PESHAWAR: ARY News reporter Faizullah has been freed from Afghanistan, who was in detention in the neighboring country for mistakenly trespassing the Afghan border during his reporting assignment earlier this year.
KABUL: Afghanistan has given a New York Times reporter 24 hours to leave the country, accusing him of not cooperating with an investigation into his reporting, the Attorney General's office said on Wednesday.