Michael Jackson converts to Islam

22/11/2008

POP singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel. The 50-year-old star, pledged his...

Gunmen attack Nigerian navy near Shell oil facility

22/11/2008

GUNMEN attacked a Nigerian navy houseboat guarding a Royal Dutch Shell oil flow station yesterday, the second such...

22/11/2008

Governator offers service to Obama LOS ANGELES: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is ready to take a...

22/11/2008

THE former chief of the Mexican agency fighting organised crime was detained Thursday in a sweeping probe of links...

22/11/2008

ZIMBABWE is struggling to contain "unprecedented" cholera outbreaks that have spread to nine of the country's...

22/11/2008

HUNDREDS of thousands of Chilean public sector workers on Thursday called an end to a four-day strike that slowed...

22/11/2008

US economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will grow more dangerous, with...

22/11/2008

FOLLOWERS of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched yesterday against a pact letting US forces stay in Iraq until 2011,...

22/11/2008

DOZENS of Somali insurgents entered a port yesterday in search of the pirate group behind the seizure of a Saudi...

22/11/2008

THE Democratic Republic of Congo demanded yesterday a stronger mandate for UN peacekeepers in the east of the vast...