World/Local News

AMMAN, Jordan—Islamic militants took to the Internet to call on Muslims to unite behind Egyptian protesters and not to “waste the chance” to topple President Hosni Mubarak and claim power in the North African nation. […] […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday. Awal Gul fell in the shower Tuesday night […] […]

FORMER US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to oversee the initial reconstruction of Iraq following his country’s invasion but was rebuffed by president George W. Bush, according to leaked pages of his forthcoming memoir. He […] […]

PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak wants to leave office, but fears there will be chaos in Egypt if he resigns now. The beleaguered Egyptian leader said he was “fed up with being president and would like to […] […]

TWO separate explosions in an industrial district of the Turkish capital killed at least 12 people today and injured dozens of others, authorities said. A powerful explosion collapsed two storeys of a factory, leaving at […] […]

WEEKS of clashes between rival Muslim rebel groups in the southern Philippines have left 13 people dead and forced thousands of others to flee their homes, the military said Thursday. More than 1000 rebels armed […] […]

ARMY investigators in Washington have concluded Iraq war commanders ignored recommendations that Bradley Manning, the United States Army Private accused of leaking classified documents, was not fit for deployment, FOXNews.com reported Wednesday. An internal army […] […]

EDMONTON—Would-be Jihadist suicide bomber or playful loving family man? Those were the two starkly different ways suspected terrorist Sayfilden Tahir Sharif was portrayed Wednesday at his bail hearing in Edmonton. A photograph snapped by Cara […] […]

CAIRO—The battle for the heart of Cairo has left a bloodied city seething with the hatred of hand-to-hand civil war. The prize is Tahrir Square: Protesters opposed to President Hosni Mubarak hold it, those who […] […]

A newly released U.S. diplomatic cable discloses the existence of previously undisclosed participants in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot: a group of Qatari men who conducted surveillance of targets in New York and the Washington […] […]