Osama bin Laden is alive, probably in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence network said in a newspaper interview. Bin Laden is the United State's main suspect in the September 11 attacks on New
India Sunday condemned a raid in Kashmir by gunmen, some dressed as Hindu holy men, who killed 27 slum dwellers and the government said it would give its response Monday. After an emergency cabinet meeting, India sent Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Adv
The authorities in Afghanistan and aid agencies are taking urgent measures to prevent a cholera epidemic in the capital Kabul. Some 6,000 patients have been admitted to Kabul hospitals in the past three weeks with diarrhoea-related diseases and three have
At least 58 people are now known to have died in severe storms that have been pounding the Philippines for a week, the authorities say. Four people are missing and 43 have been injured and the death toll is expected to rise further as reports trickle in f
Supporters of the new global war crimes court have reacted with anger to a United Nations compromise that exempts American peacekeepers from any prosecution. The UN Security Council voted unanimously for the 12-month exemption - to be renewed annually - t
A Tibetan scholar, believed to be the country's longest-serving political prisoner has arrived in the United States after being freed by the Chinese authorities. Former teacher Tanag Jigme Sangpo, who is 76, had been in prison for most of the past 40 year
The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has condemned an attack by suspected Muslim militants near Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir, which killed at least 27 people and injured 30 others. Mr Straw is due in India in a few days' time as part of the
An open air memorial service has taken place in the Urals city of Ufa for the victims of the mid-air plane collision over Germany last week which killed 71 people, most of them Russians. More than 1,000 mourners attended the ceremony in Ufa's central squa
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has described Aids as a "war against humanity". Ending the International Aids Conference in Barcelona, he called for an end to the stigma of HIV, especially for children orphaned by the disease.
China is preparing for a potential conflict with Taiwan, according to a Pentagon report released on Friday. Beijing is modernising its military to make possible a forcible reunification with Taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province, the report says
The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to exempt US peacekeepers from prosecution by the new war crimes court for a year - ending a bitter row that threatened peacekeeping operations. The Bush administration, which considers the court a
Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has said that he may consider resignation if his party suffers more defections. Mr Ecevit was speaking in a live interview on Turkish television, shortly after his former Foreign Minister, Ismail Cem, announc
President Vladimir Putin told his top diplomats on Friday that Russia remained a global power, but that post-September 11, relations with Washington were a source of international stability, not rivalry. Putin told 500 ambassadors and envoys, summoned for
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian policeman and a 13-year-old boy in the Gaza Strip on Friday, and a photographer died of his wounds a day after troops shot him in the West Bank, Palestinian security sources said. The army also arrested dozens of peo
Ismail Cem, who resigned as Turkey's foreign minister this week, said on Friday he had agreed with two other prominent figures to form a new movement that would press reforms needed for EU membership talks. Cem, explaining his resignation at a news confer
Groups of suspected al Qaeda operatives are being closely watched by the FBI in some of America's biggest cities, including Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and Detroit, government sources told CNN Thursday. The sources would say only that the number of suspecte
The drugs firm Bristol-Myers Squibb has said that US regulators are investigating its sales practices. The firm said it had been talking to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since April regarding the sale of drugs to wholesalers last year wh
Tens of thousands of Venezuelan demonstrators have brought the capital, Caracas to a halt, demanding the resignation of President Hugo Chavez. Three months after an abortive coup attempt against him, demonstrators yelled "Out! Out!" to the accompaniment o
A recovery in Asian share prices has fuelled hopes that the worst of this week's market turmoil could be over. Japan's Nikkei 225 share index gained more than 1%, fuelling a surge in markets around Asia, after Wall Street rallied late on Thursday.
Two State Department workers are suspected of selling U.S.
A British transsexual has won her battle in the European Court of Human Rights to be recognised as a woman and be allowed to marry. Christine Goodwin's solicitor called it a "milestone" in her campaign to be treated equally with other women.
Bulgaria's Perperikon: A European Counterpart to Peru's Machu Picchu
Bulgarians Among EU's Least Frequent Vacationers, Struggling with Affordability
