27/10/2012 11:21
International press at a glance
Irish Independent
A nanny at a luxury New York City apartment building is believed to have stabbed two small children to death before turning the knife on herself.
USA Today
A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked in Cairo during the holiday celebrations with the crowds of rowdy men in the streets.
Al Jazeera
A suicide attacker has killed at least 41 people and injured 51 in northern Afghanistan, local officials have said. The attack on Friday occurred when a man detonated explosives that he was carrying outside a mosque in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province.
CNN
A 67-year-old cancer patient was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fire that ripped through a hospital in Taiwan killing at least 12 people and injuring 60 others.
Daily Mail
A two-year-old Syrian boy has been reunited with his family in Cyprus after they accidentally left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus in the summer.
BBC
Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.
Reuters
A powerful car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad clashed with rebels across Syria as a truce intended to mark a Muslim religious holiday unravelled and activists reported at least 70 deaths.
The Guardian
The hurricane left 41 people dead as it passed through the Caribbean and headed north. Sandy could strike the US coastline anywhere between Virginia and Massachusetts as early as Monday.
BBC
Chinese prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into disgraced politician Bo Xilai, state news agency Xinhua reports.