World/Local News

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 […] […]

SIX men and one woman were arrested in Birmingham, central England during counterterrorism raids, West Midlands Police said. The men were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism […] […]

AT least 27 people have died and dozens are missing after torrential rains and flooding in north and southwest China forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes. Unprecedented rains since last Friday have swamped […] […]