2 Sep 10
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has declared an end to US combat in Iraq, calling on its people to chart their own destiny as Americans turn to combating al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and rebuilding their own battered nation.In a major address last Tuesday, Obama...
2 Sep 10
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BBC Gear's Stig finally unmasked
LONDON: The identity of "The Stig", the mystery test car driver on the popular BBC TV motoring show "Top Gear" was revealed yesterday after the broadcaster lost a legal battle to keep his...
2 Sep 10
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BRITAIN'S former prime minister Tony Blair published his memoirs yesterday, saying he had no regrets over the 2003 Iraq war but stressing he was "desperately sorry" for those who died.Entitled "A Journey", the book is Blair's...
2 Sep 10
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VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden yesterday launched a new American military mission in Iraq, ushering in a fresh phase in a seven-year-old deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 troops.Addressing soldiers at Camp Victory outside Baghdad a day...
2 Sep 10
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BOSNIAN police said yesterday they were investigating claims by a local animals rights group that a Bosnian girl threw half a dozen puppies into a river in a video that sparked global outrage.Animals rights group "Flekice" (Spots) filed a...
2 Sep 10
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THE morale of 33 miners trapped in Chile soared yesterday after music and hot meals were supplied, and Nasa added its experience to keeping them healthy while a rescue drill inched closer. A new video shot by the miners and broadcast on state...
2 Sep 10
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A SOMALI rebel group has told the Horn of Africa nation's embattled president to resign and said hardline rebels had succeeded where the government had failed, in establishing order in areas they controlled.Hizbul Islam, which has waged a three-year...
2 Sep 10
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UNITED STATES holidaymakers yesterday began to flee the path of Hurricane Earl, slightly weakened but still packing potentially devastating winds and rains as it sped toward the US east coast.Weather experts said the category three storm —...
2 Sep 10
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama steps into Middle East peace efforts in a bold bid to relaunch direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations amid scepticism over his chances of success.Fresh violence blamed on the Hamas and continued deadlock over Israeli...
2 Sep 10
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton there would be no extension of an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction that expires at the end of the month, his office said yesterday."It is impossible to...
2 Sep 10
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A TOP Swedish prosecutor said yesterday she would reopen a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, overturning a previous ruling to quash a probe of the Australian."There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed...
2 Sep 10
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POLICE opened fire on demonstrators protesting against rising prices in Mozambique's capital yesterday, killing two children and at least four other people, police and hospital sources said.Police shot live ammunition after running out of rubber...
2 Sep 10
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VOTING was set to start yesterday to elect a new leader of Britain's Labour party months after it was ousted from power after 13 years, with former foreign secretary David Miliband tipped to succeed Gordon Brown.Miliband's campaign was also in the...
2 Sep 10
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LEBANON'S chief prosecutor yesterday sent an arrest warrant against a suspected spy for Israel to international police agency Interpol, after reports the suspect, who fled the country last year, may be in France.Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan...
1 Sep 10
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PRIME Minister Nuri al-Maliki said yesterday that Iraq's own soldiers and police were capable of defending a "sovereign and independent" country as American forces ended seven years of combat operations.A major troop pullout over past...
1 Sep 10
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Palestinian teens charged with killing
JERUSALEM: Two Palestinian teenagers were charged with murder on Tuesday for killing an American Jew by smashing him on the head with a plank after he refused to give them cigarettes, Israeli police said....
1 Sep 10
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US AUTHORITIES are considering coastal evacuations along the eastern seaboard if Hurricane Earl's track suddenly shifts westward after coming close to the North Carolina coast this week, federal officials said yesterday. "There is still some...
1 Sep 10
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IRAN has dismissed as "unacceptable" the continued deployment of American troops in Iraq as US President Barack Obama was to announce yesterday the end of combat operations in the country."You see in practice that the massive presence...
1 Sep 10
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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi caused anger yesterday after calling in Italy for Europeans to convert to Islam, and demanding billions of euros to stop migration leading to a "black Europe". The controversial leader returned home after a...
1 Sep 10
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NEW YORK voters contradicted themselves over a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site, with majorities saying both that Muslims have the right to build one but that they should be forced to move it, a poll issued on Tuesday...
