World/Local News

A PROMINENT Afghan television news journalist and political activist has been stabbed to death near his Kabul home, police say. Sayed Hamid Noori, who was also deputy head of Afghanistan’s National Journalists’ Association, was found […] […]

Just days after Mideast peace talks began in Washington, the first major crisis is already looming: Israel hinted Sunday it will ease restrictions on building in West Bank settlements, while the Palestinian president warned he’ll […] […]

PALESTINIANS and Arabs have seen a possible breakthrough in Middle East peace talks. Key Palestinian and Arab leaders  been surprised by what they now see as the real possibility that the new round of peace […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. Meanwhile, two coalition troops, one British and one from […] […]

BAGHDAD—Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious […] […]

THE diary of Mr Cedric Murray, the wanted gunman who led the Stone Crusher gang before the police killed him last month is instructive, albeit sensational. That is why we are publishing the details of […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation’s largest bank despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe. Crowds gathered Saturday at Kabul Bank branches around the capital to withdraw dollar […] […]

VIETNAM: The remains of 44 communist soldiers believed killed during the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive have been found in a mass grave, bringing the number of remains recovered at the site to 74, a military […] […]

CHRISTCHURCH braced for more destruction today as aftershocks rocked the region following New Zealand’s most devastating earthquake in decades and as a powerful storm approached. New Zealand’s civil defence officials warned that the ongoing aftershocks […] […]

WASHINGTON: The income of one group of US women is catching up to and even overtaking men, a study shows. They are single women in their 20s without children, who live in large cities and […] […]