At least 70 people have been reported killed over the weekend in separate incidents in Nepal. According to government officials and local media the worst fighting between government forces and Maoist rebels too place in Dailekh district where 35 rebels we
In Pakistan, an explosion went off just minutes after President Pervez Musharraf passed in his car. The blast reportedly occurred near a bridge in Rawalpindi.
A car bomb killed 17 policemen and wounded 30 more at a police station in western Iraq, international agencies reported. It went off about 8:40 am (0540 GMT) at the station on the main road about 20 kilometres (12 miles) to the east of Ramadi, a military
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti married his ex-secretary Nicoletta Mantovani on Saturday at a ceremony in northern Italy, attended by Irish rocker Bono and Italian singer Zucchero. The Giorgio Armani dresses of the bride and her daughter were pink, just like
Fears that the situation in Iraq could worsen mounted as US soldiers gunned down an Iraqi man in fallen dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit late Friday. He said he opened fire on them from a car just outside a US military base.
Former Azerbaijani President Geidar Aliev died at 80 at the Cleveland Clinic, after he suffered from congestive heart failure and kidney problems. No details on the death cause were given by the clinic.
A bomb exploded on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Mahaweel on Friday, injuring two Polish soldiers on patrol in the area. The soldiers' injuries were not life threatening.
Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Friday after a meeting with the US Secretary of State Colin Powell that he and Powell agreed that negotiations between Israel and the Palestina should begin immediately without preconditions. Shalom added that
Canada's Jean Chretien stepped down on Friday after 10 years as the popular Canadian prime minister ever. Paul Martin, a former finance minister took the post and pledged to seek smoother ties with the US despite strains over Iraq.
Queen Elisabeth II of Great Britain will have a key-hole surgery on Friday. She will have a torn cartilage removed from her left knee.
Six Palestinians were killed in a major Israeli operation against rebels in southern Gaza since Israel continued to face criticism over the construction of its West Bank separation barrier.
One US soldier was killed and 14 were injured in a suicide attack in Iraq on Friday after three bombers blew themselves up at the gates of a US Army base. It is the third attack of this kind from the beginning of the week.
German court surprisingly decided to free a key suspect for the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US - 30-year-old Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi. The reason for the dramatic legal twist was said to be that there was "a strong possibility for the man to p
A car exploded near a synagogue in the northern Italian city of Modena on Thursday morning when the man inside set himself on fire in an apparent suicide, police reported. Later in the day it was announced that the incident was not a terrorist attack but
Defense lawyers for the Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi who is on trial in Germany for assisting the terrorists in the September 11 suicide attacks against the US World Trade Centre demanded his release on Thursday. The judge Klaus Ruehle had previously made a
An explosion rocked a Tel Aviv coffee shop on Thursday, killing at least 3 people, news agencies reported. Emergency workers said at least 10 were wounded in the blast.
Four Palestinians have been killed and other 17 injured in an Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip. Israeli military forces rushed into a refugee camp surrounded a house where they believed an Islamic militant was hiding.
Yet another US soldier was killed in Iraq, after bullets were sprayed from a driving-by car at the American troops. The incident took place in the town of Mosul north of capital Baghdad.
Poland may veto the draft EU constitution if the country's voting rights, gained three years ago, are downgraded, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said ahead of his meeting with German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Thursday. The two top statesmen
The 2003 Nobel winners for Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf. Robert F.
Two US soldiers and a Kurdish official were killed in separate attacks in Iraq as France, Germany and Russia expressed bewilderment with a US decision barring countries that refused to join the Iraq war coalition from bidding for lucrative contracts in th
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