2011-04-04

A US State Department spokesman has described the violent clashes taking place in Yemen as “appalling”. Hospital sources claim police shot dead 15

French military forces have been stepping up their action in Ivory Coast where a conflict between two claimants to the Presidency is becoming

The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay along with

Dozens of chanting supporters stand alongside the Libyan leader in his bombed-out bunker in Tripoli, waving their flags. It is the image that

Olav Mathis Eira, reindeer herder in Norway. “My reindeer are almost a year old. They were very weak in the winter so we had to bring them home and

The Turkish ferry sent to rescue hundreds of wounded Libyans from the fighting has left Benghazi to sail for home. On board are 250 evacuees

The queues keep getting longer at Spain’s job centres. In March, the number of Spaniards registered as without work rose by 0.8 percent from the

French experts say they could start recovering bodies of victims of the Air France plane that crashed off Brazil within weeks. The Airbus plunged

Libyan rebels have pushed forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi out of much of the city but they are still facing bombardment. Control of the oil town

A Russian Soyuz-21 spacecraft is going through final pre-flight checks at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.   The crew, which includes an

An Australian woman is recovering in hospital after surviving a plunge from a multi-storey car park in Melbourne. Witnesses said the noise of the

A United Nations plane has crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing at least 10 people and injuring 16. A UN official said the aircraft

A clearing-up operation is underway on the small Italian island of Lampedusa after over 2,000 Tunisian migrants were transferred to camps on the

More than three weeks after being separated by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, coastguards have reunited a dog and her owner following a daring

Police and snipers in civilian clothes have reportedly opened fire on anti-government protesters in Yemen. According to medical sources, at least

In Libya, the rebels are working to impose discipline among their volunteers in order to not only hold their positions but also to push forward.

It looks like the final showdown has begun. After days of waiting, troops loyal to Ivory Coast’s presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara have

The royal romance between Prince William and Kate Middleton is being chronicled in a new comic book. “Kate and William: a Very Public Love Story”

Jack Sparrow is back. This fourth series of pirate adventures involves a search for the fountain of youth. Both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley

In Libya, neither Gaddafi’s forces nor the rebels have been able to gain the upper hand. Both sides have made swift advances and rapid retreats and

French soldiers have moved more than 1,000 foreign nationals out of Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, for protection. They were escorted to a camp

Belgian chemicals group Solvay is set to take over France’s Rhodia with a 3.4 billion euros cash bid. Solvay is looking to improve sales in emerging

The latest big deal in the phone world has Britain’s Vodafone selling its 44 percent stake in France’s SFR to the French communications and

One year after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, BP is moving closer to resuming deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reportedly been

Japan’s major manufacturers expect business conditions there to worsen in the next three months following the earthquake on 11 March. That was the

October 3, 2010: After five years of delays, the first round of presidential elections takes place.   November 28, 2010: In the second round of

After almost 20 years of loyal service, space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off for a final mission on 29 April. NASA is planning one last

For Kazakhstan’s veteran president, it is a triumph. Re-election with a whopping 95.5 per cent of the vote will help Nursultan Nazarbayev further

Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council has rejected a proposal to end the conflict from Colonel Gaddafi’s most prominent sons. Salaam and Saif

The US President has launched his campaign for re-election to the White House in 2012. Barack Obama fired the opening salvo with a short