Suspected Shiite militiamen fired mortar bombs and grenades at US forces in the holy town of Najaf in southern Iraq overnight. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, which also targeted the city's US-led administration office.
Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller is due to leave office on Sunday, a day after leading the eastern European nation into the new, enlarged EU. He is to be replaced immediately by an ex-finance minister, Marek Belka.
Irish riot police have driven back hundreds of anti-capitalist demonstrators protesting at Saturday's historic enlargement of the EU. They directed a water cannon into the crowd near the Phoenix Park venue for the EU summit before a phalanx of officers wi
Irish Police are on high alert amidst concerns that this evening's demonstrations in Dublin against globalization might get out of hand. According to Irish press news based on intelligence units, the police fear that groups prone to create negative incide
A Canadian couple and an American died in a fire at one of Rome's most prestigious hotels early on Saturday. The American man plunged to his death from one of the balconies of the six-story Hotel Parco dei Principi ai Parioli as he tried to escape the fla
Images of smiling US military police humiliating Iraqi prisoners appeared in newspapers around the Middle East on Saturday. Arabs first saw the photographs on the satellite television stations Al-Arabiya, based in the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar-based
The leaders of wartime foes Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic hoisted the European Union flag together May 1 as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder welcomed his neighbors into the enlarged bloc, 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Schroeder, Czech P
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan today but there were no reports of damages or casualties.
Fifty-eight police officers were injured in clashes with May Day demonstrators early on Saturday in Berlin and 111 people were detained after violence erupted in a city park, Berlin police said. A police spokeswoman said that 55 of the 58 injured officers
Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, died at the age of 80 in the US where he was serving a prison sentence. Badalamenti became notorious in the US for masterminding a crime ring, which distributed heroin and coca
Michael Jackson pleaded not guilty Friday to a grand jury indictment that expanded the child molestation case against him to include a conspiracy count involving allegations of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. The indictment was released
A boat carrying Vietnamese school children and their teachers on a holiday outing sank off the country's south coat and 22 of them had drowned and about 70 were missing. The boat, a fishing vessel illegally carrying passengers, developed a leak and began
A foreign security man was killed and three were wounded by a roadside bomb in the northern Iraq town of Mosul Saturday, a U.S.
Cuba has broken its own world record for the most people playing chess simultaneously. Nearly 13,000 chess fans gathered in the centre Cuba city of Santa Clara for the mass game.
Waving rainbow-striped flags for peace, Italians marched to the front steps of the Vatican in solidarity with three Italians held hostages in Iraq. In a footage aired by Arab TV on Monday, their kidnappers demanded that within five days Italians rise up a
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US-Russian-Dutch crew returned to Earth from the international space station, landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan.The snug Soyuz TMA-3 capsule carried American astronaut Michael Foale and Russian cosmonaut
An Italian court has set free nine Moroccans suspected of belonging to a terrorist group. According to Italian press agency Ansa , the acquittal concerned three cases of 12 immigrants suspected of belonging to a terrorist group led by Pakistani Nasser Ahm
The suspected spiritual leader of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group will be re-arrested after he is released from jail on Friday. The cleric's supporters have vowed to resist the move.
Troops fanned out across southern Thailand to restore order after a day of carnage in which security forces shot dead 107 Muslim militants and the army said it faced thousands more insurgents. Army chiefs ordered two extra battalions of soldiers into
A construction crew's backhoe tumbled down a hillside onto a school bus on the highway below in Colombia, killing 21 children and two adults and injuring 36 others, officials said. The 45-ton earth mover was being driven along a section of road highe
Prosecutors have said that there might not be enough evidence to charge Israeli PM over a bribery scandal. There were claims that Ariel Sharon's son was paid by a local businessman in 1999 to get help from the PM in real estate deals.
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