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A Qantas jet was stranded in Bangkok Friday after crew were forced to shut down one engine, the latest headache for an ...

Anton Hammerl, a South African photographer who had been missing in Libya, was shot dead six weeks ago by leader ...

Skull scans on two of the oldest known mammal species have shown their brains were large and well-developed in areas ...

NATO air strikes targeted the port of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday night, with a ship still ablaze in the ...

The wife and daughter of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi have fled the country into neighboring Tunisia, US ...

Israel should not be asked to withdraw to the borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War, Israel`s prime ...

A spate of bomb attacks against police in the disputed northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 27 ...

An Israeli government committee on Thursday approved the construction of more than 1,500 settler homes in east ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has called an "urgent" meeting of the Palestinian leadership after US President ...

NATO`s bombing campaign in Libya has significantly degraded veteran leader Moamer Kadhafi`s military power, the ...

Thirty-six people were killed and 20 wounded Thursday when the Taliban stormed an Afghan road construction company, ...

Yemen`s opposition blamed President Ali Abdullah Saleh Thursday for the failure of a Gulf plan aimed at ending a ...

Interpol on Wednesday announced the creation of a nuclear terrorism prevention unit to counter a threat "facing all" ...

A double bombing near the police headquarters of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 18 ...

Shells fired in battles between insurgent militant Islamists and African Union forces at a Mogadishu market on ...