World

  • Some 500 arrested in Syria crackdown: rights group
    A Syrian protester beats a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad with a shoe, as he attends protest against the on going violence in Syria, in front of the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, April 26,
    World / 27th April 2011
  • Pak naval bus attacks kill four in Karachi
    (LEFT): Pakistani paramilitary soldiers gather around a damaged bus at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, April 26. Twin bomb attacks against Pakistani navy buses that were talking employ
    World / 27th April 2011
  • Nearly 500 Taliban flee in daring Afghan jailbreak
    An Afghan solider, center, stands guard  outside of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 25 (AFP): Almost 500 Taliban p
    World / 25th April 2011
  • NATO bombs hit Gadhafi office as rebels advance
    In this photo made on a government organized trip, guards inspect damage at Moammar Gadhafi’s compound following an airstrike, in Tripoli, Libya, early on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) TRIPOLI, April
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Factory fire kills 17, injures 24
    Investigators go through the remains of a  fire in Daxing district of Beijing, China on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) BEIJING, April 25 (AFP): Seventeen poor migrants died when a fire swept through an
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Syrian tanks roll into Daraa, fire at protesters
    This video image taken from amateur video released by Sham News Network, a Syrian Freedom group, shows a man, left, preparing to throw an object at a tank as others look on in Daraa, Syria on Sunday April 24. (
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Syrian forces fire on demo, “armed criminals” kill six
    In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, taken on Monday April 18, Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of the city of Homs, Syria. Syrian security forces fired tear
    World / 20th April 2011
  • Last Supper was a day earlier: scientist
    “The last supper of Tongerlo” by Leonardo da Vinci is pictured during the exhibition “The European Genius”, in 2007 in the National Basilica of Koekelberg, Brussels. Christians have long
    World / 20th April 2011
  • Gaddafi’s forces hit Misrata amid diplomatic disputes
    Libyan pro and anti-Gadhafi protesters fight at the street in front of the Arab league headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, April 14. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chaired a meeting Thursday of intern
    World / 14th April 2011
  • ‘Militia kill 17 before polls in Sudan state’
    KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters): Sudanese militia have killed 17 people in the oil-producing South Kordofan region just two weeks before long-delayed elections, a candidate for state governor said on Thursday. Gub
    World / 14th April 2011
  • Ouattara takes charge after I. Coast victory
    ABIDJAN, April 14 (AFP): President Alassane Ouattara stamped his new authority on Ivory Coast on Thursday, as troops formerly loyal to his ousted rival Laurent Gbagbo flocked to his banner despite ongoing viole
    World / 14th April 2011
  • Yemen opposition spurns talks, sets Saleh deadline
    Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen on Thursday, April 14. Gunmen loyal to the government attacked t
    World / 14th April 2011
  • Japan emperor makes first trip to disaster zone
    Japanese Emperor Akihito, left, and Empress Michiko, kneel down and smile at people at an evacuation shelter in Asahi City in Chiba Prefecture, about 86 kilometers (54 miles) east of Tokyo on Thursday, April 14
    World / 14th April 2011
  • Gunmen attack Pakistani embassy official in Kathmandu
    KATHMANDU, April 14 (Agencies): Mehboob Asif, visa assistant at the Pakistani embassy in Kathmandu, miraculously survived a gun attack on Thursday, triggering speculation about the growth of the underworld in N
    World / 14th April 2011
  • Libyan rebels take to the world stage
    Libyan men carry a banner with a pre Gadhafi flag and reads in Arabic "February 17th revolution, we don't surrender its victory or death" as they take part in an anti Gadhafi rally and supporting Fran
    World / 13th April 2011
  • Evacuees slam Japan nuclear plant operator
    TOKYO, April 13 (AP): Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant gathered in protest at the Tokyo headquarters of the plant's operator Wednesday, demanding compens
    World / 13th April 2011
  • Film claims discovery of nails from Jesus’s cross
    Documentary film "The Nails of the Cross" by veteran investigator Simcha Jacobovici. JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters): Could two of the nails used to crucify Jesus have been discovered in a 2,000-ye
    World / 13th April 2011
  • Libyan woman finally reveals horrific details of attack by Gadhafi’s thugs
    Ordeal: Iman Al-Obeidi says following her rape ordeal she is now being stopped from leaving Tripoli. Sky News reporter Lisa Holland, bottom left, and FT journalist Charles Clover, back, attempt to protect al-Ob
    World / 13th April 2011
  • U.N. and French helicopters attack Gbagbo forces
    A soldier allied with Alassane Ouattara is given a handful of bullets for his new AK-47 after a shipment of weapons arrived at a republican forces operating base on the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Mond
    World / 12th April 2011
  • Gaddafi forces shell town after he accepts peace plan
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (Right) talks with Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguessou (2nd Left) as they stand for photograph outside a tent in Gaddafi’s heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound
    World / 12th April 2011
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