Beirut - 16 July 2011 (AP): Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests on Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in a sign that security forces cannot break the revolt.Syrian authorities fi

Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan, was killed on Tuesday, an official and a family member confirmed. "I confirm that Ahmad Wali was killed inside his house," said Zalmay Ayoubi, spokesman for the governor of K

Juba - 9 July 2011: An ecstatic night and day of celebration has greeted the birth of the world's newest country, South Sudan, which has formally parted from the Arab-led Khartoum government to the north. In a day of firsts for South Sudan, the new country hoisted its flag in front of a crowd of

London - 09 July 2011: British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-communications chief Andy Coulson, who was editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World, and a former royals' editor for the tabloid were arrested on Friday as a scandal over phone hacking and bribing police rocked Britain and

CAIRO - 08 July 2011 (AP): Tens of thousands of Egyptians braved scorching summer heat to hold one of their biggest protests in months Friday, filling streets inCairoand other cities to demand trials for members of Hosni Mubarak's regime and express frustration with the slow pace of change.The exhil

WELLINGTON: A powerful 7.6-magnitude underseaearthquaketriggered tsunami alerts forNew ZealandandTongaThursday but warnings were cancelled as the quake proved less destructive than feared.ThePacific Tsunami Warning Centerissued a tsunami alert after the quake struck off New Zealand's Kermadec Island

Yingluck Shinawatra set to be country's first female leader as prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva prepares for opposition Thailand's Democrat government has conceded defeat in Sunday's election - putting Yingluck Shinawatra on course to become the country's first female leader, five years after he

WASHINGTON:US warslaunched since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have left 225,000 dead and cost up to $4.4 trillion, according to a new study by university researchers.The study published byBrown Universitythis week focused on the wars in Iraq,Afghanistanand counter-terrorism campaigns inPakistan

JERUSALEM: They're all aTwitter about the flotilla. It may still be anyone's guess when a small international convoy of vessels carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid will set sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip in a challenge to Israel's naval blockade of the territory run by Hamas Islamist

New York - 30 June 2011: About 150 turtles, in search of beaches to lay their eggs, crawled into the busy tarmac ofJohn F Kennedy airporthere and delayed dozens of flights.The parade of slow-moving diamondback terrapins began about 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday. ThePort Authority of New York and New Jersey

Jakarta - 29 June 2011: A moderate 5.6-magnitudeearthquakehit off Indonesia'sSumatra islandon Wednesday, the local geophysics agency said, but there were no initial reports of damage or casualties.The quake struck at a depth of 30 kilometres around 175 kilometres southwest of the city of Bengkulu at

JERUSALEM, June 27 (Xinhua) - Israel and Egyptian authorities have reached an understanding that ships participating in a flotilla to the Gaza Strip this week will be allowed to unload their presumed cargo of humanitarian relief at the Egyptian port of el-Arish. The goods will undergo inspectio

When US soldier Terry Brooks was sent to join military guards at the infamous Guantanamo prison that houses Moslem militants from Taliban and Al-Qaeda, he had not thought he would embrace the religion of those prisoners. After a few chats with a Moroccan inmate, he converted to Islam in 2003. Brook

Moscow - 21 June 2011: Forty four people were killed and eight survived with serious injuries when a Russian passenger plane crashed onto a motorway before landing, leaving bodies strewn over the road, officials said on Tuesday.TheRussAir Tu-134tried to land just before midnight local time on Monday

Istanbul - 13 June 2011: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) sailed to a clear victory with 50 per cent of the vote in elections Sunday, guaranteeing it a third consecutive term to govern. "It is Turkey that has won the June 12 election. Today, freedom, peace, justice and stability,

CHRISTCHURCH - 13 June 2011: A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand's quake-hit city of Christchurch on Monday, prompting the evacuation of a building holding an inquest into February's deadly tremor. The USGS measured the quake, which hit just 10 kilometres from Christchurch, at 5.2-magnitud

Sanaa - 03 June 2011: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is said to have been wounded in an attack on his compound. Reports indicate the president was lightly injured, while several other government officials were also hurt, some of them more seriously.Initial reports indicate a shell hit a

BERLIN: Iran temporarily withdrew flyover rights for the plane carrying German chancellor Angela Merkel to India on Tuesday, forcing it to circle over Turkey for two hours before the rights were restored and she could land in New Delhi. "An unusual start to the India trip," Merkel's spokesman S