The United States are give North Korea 50,000 tonnes of food aid, government officials announced. The gesture may help bring the impoverished state back to talks on ending its suspected nuclear arms programs, according to experts.
At least 15 people have been killed and 50 wounded in three car bomb explosions in Baghdad, officials say. Policemen are said to be among the dead in Thursday morning blasts in the Karrada commercial district.
A US Air Force U-2 spy plane has crashed in south-west Asia killing the pilot, according to a US military source. The crash occurred at late on Tuesday, when the pilot was returning to base after completing a mission in support of US forces in Afghanistan
An American spy plane has crashed in south-west Asia Tuesday, on its way back from a mission. The pilot of the machine has died, the US military announced a day later.
Scientists in the US say they may have recovered a signal from the first craft designed to use light from the Sun to power space travel. Organisers of the mission in California say there is now hope that the "solar sail" craft is orbiting Earth, hours aft
Several people died and at least 60 were wounded in a train crash in Israel. A train collided with a truck near the city of Ashkelon Tuesday.
Michael Jackson is allegedly planning to flee the US and live in Elizabeth Taylor's mountain villa in Switzerland. The pop icon was cleared of child abuse charges last week, but his passport is still held by the police.
The world's first cannabis-based drug has been put out for sale, world media disclosed Monday. The Sativex mouth spray for multiple sclerosis treatment is now available on the Canadian market.
A suicide bomber in Iraq has killed at least 12 people in an attack on police in the northern city of Irbil. The car bomb went off at a recruitment centre for traffic police in the Kurdish city.
EU leaders travel to Washington on Monday for a one-day summit with the United States hosted by President George W. Bush.
A suicide bombing ripped through a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25. The bomber detonated a vest laden with explosives at lunchtime on Sunday in the Ibn Zanbour restaurant, which is just half a kilometer from th
The Basque militant group Eta has declared it will no longer attack Spanish politicians, in a statement reported by the Basque newspaper, Gara. The group said it has closed its "front" against politicians because of changes in the political climate.
The hardline mayor of Tehran is to face a veteran former president in a run-off for Iran's presidency, after a surprise result in Friday's first round. The second round pits conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who led
The US and the UK have closed their consulates in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, citing "security fears". The Foreign Office in London said the UK had shut its mission in Lagos as a precaution following the closure of the US consulate, which is just 100m
Hundreds of protesters invaded the main government building in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Friday. The demonstrators protested against the barring of a Kyrgyz businessman from running in the country's presidential elections in July.
Actor Tom Cruise is to marry girlfriend Katie Holmes. The star proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Police have ended the hostage crisis at an international school in north-western Cambodia, after gunmen seized dozens of children. All of the gunmen were captured, but one young girl died during the operation, according to witnesses.
The two largest Greek labour unions went Thursday on strike in response to governmental reforms in the country. The strikers believe that the changes introduced by the Greek government threaten the number of work places in the public sector as well as pen
A tsunami warning was briefly issued for the California coast last night after an offshore earthquake, prompting scattered evacuations but no reported injuries. The alert, the first of its kind since November 2003, was canceled at about 9:10 p.
Two people were killed by an explosion at an oil storage facility near the Russian capital, Moscow. At least one other person is injured, after safety regulations were reportedly violated as a railway tanker was being emptied.
The Iraq oil-for-food inquiry says it is "urgently reviewing" new material on the UN secretary general's alleged ties to a firm monitoring the programme. A memo by Swiss firm Cotecna published this week describes a meeting between Kofi Annan and its execu
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