40,000 Join Lebanese "Marathon of Unity"
About 40,000 Lebanese people took part Sunday in a huge "Marathon of Unity," commemorating assassinated ex-PM Rafiq Hariri. The participants set out from Martyrs square and the grave of Hariri.
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About 40,000 Lebanese people took part Sunday in a huge "Marathon of Unity," commemorating assassinated ex-PM Rafiq Hariri. The participants set out from Martyrs square and the grave of Hariri.
An earthquake measuring 6.7 shook part of Indonesia on Sunday and was felt in Singapore as well.
A peace truce between Israel and Palestine was on the verge of breakup Saturday, after Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian teenagers in southern Gaza. Witnesses said the group of boys came under fire when they tried to retrieve a football.
Insurgents have killed 15 Iraqi soldiers just outside Baghdad on Saturday. The attack coincided with the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to coalition forces.
Four children were killed by a homemade bomb while collecting trash in Baghdad, police officials said. Meanwhile three masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer late Thursday in the Southern city of Basra, police also said.
UK car producer MG Rover will be placed in administration, as talks with China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) collapsed on Thursday. Rover bosses had warned the company would go under unless the state immediately approved a EUR 145 M taxpayer-
Two people have been killed and eighteen injured in a bomb attack in a bazaar in Cairo. The bomb was tossed into the crowded market by a man on a motorcycle, police said.
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani has been sworn in as the new interim president of Iraq. It happened a day after he was elected to the largely ceremonial post by parliament, ending weeks of deadlock.
A gunman burst Thursday in a school in Tehran taking hostages few students and teachers, who were later released, police officials announced. The militant, who turned out to be a military, was forced to give in by Iranian special security services.
Nine people were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday when a military helicopter crashed during severe weather, a US military said. The CH 47 Chinook helicopter crashed in Ghazni province, 80 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul, while on a routine mission
Iraq's new parliament is due to select its three-man presidency council, which will in turn appoint a prime minister. Senior government sources said Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani would be nominated as president.
American novelist Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 died in Massachusetts, aged 89. He was brought up in Chicago, and much of his work deals with that city and the experience of Jews and immigrants in 20th Century America.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has set May 5 as the date of general elections in the country. Speaking after asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament next week, Mr Blair said Labour had a "driving mission" for a third term in office, BBC reported.
The world famous Mona Lisa is due to move back to Paris' Louvre art gallery on Wednesday, four years after refurbishment work began. Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old masterpiece will be hung alone on a wall in the museum's Salle des Etats.
The United States carry out the biggest anti-terrorism exercise to test its response to attacks involving biological and chemical weapons. More than 10,000 people are involved in the five-day exercise.
New York's main crude oil contract has hit USD 58 per barrel for the first time on Monday over supply fears. Light sweet crude for May delivery surged 91 cents on Friday's closing price to strike an intra-day high of USD 58.
Airports in southern Thailand went on full alert on Monday after bomb blasts at the region's main airport and two other sites killed at least two people and wounded several dozen. The blasts raised concerns that Muslim insurgents were expanding their reac
Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev formally submitted his resignation on Monday, ending a crisis in the new government, which was struggling to obtain legitimacy in the wake of a bloodless revolution that saw the president flee to Russia on 24 March. The new Ky
A man wielding a sword has killed one person and injured others during a church service in Germany. Police said they found "grisly" scenes after the afternoon attack in the southern city of Stuttgart.
Ousted Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev says he has agreed to tender his formal resignation. Akayev made the decision after three hours of talks with a parliamentary delegation from Kyrgyzstan at the country's embassy in Moscow.
Iraq's Transitional National Assembly took a step towards forming a new Iraqi Government nine weeks after the country's historic elections, electing a Speaker and two deputies. With 241 of the 275 members of the National Assembly gathered Sunday, they cho
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