Month: September 2011

GUNFIRE and shelling has rocked the Yemeni capital for the third straight day, with the civilian death toll reaching 53, including a baby boy shot in the head. Amid fears of civil war, residents awoke […] […]

A CAR-BOMB went off near a high school in the Turkish capital last night, igniting other vehicles and killing three people in a nearby building. The 11.30am (6.30pm AEST) blast, which the Ankara prosecutor’s office […] […]

FORMER Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading peace efforts in the war-torn country, was assassinated late last night in a suicide attack at his Kabul home. Two of Mr Rabbani’s close political allies said […] […]

EIGHT inmates were killed in an early morning fire today at a prison in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. At least 31 other inmates were treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries from the blaze that […] […]

TWENTY-two convicted drug traffickers were hanged in Iran, a local newspaper reported today. The 22 men were executed yesterday in the Tehran’s Evin prison and in Rajaei Shahr prison in the Tehran suburb Karaj after […] […]

A KENYAN court has charged a man with the murder of a British holidaymaker and the kidnap of his wife while staying in a luxury beach resort in the east African country. But Ali Babitu […] […]

The Kennedy clan has suffered another untimely death. US correspondent Richard Arnold told Newstalk ZB that Kara Kennedy, the late Ted Kennedy’s eldest daughter, was at a health club exercising when she collapsed and died […] […]

THREE international troops have been killed in southern Afghanistan. NATO says two soldiers were killed in roadside bomb attacks, a third was killed by a landmine explosion in the same region. The deaths raise the […] […]