THE acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with mentally impaired women used to carry out devastating suicide attacks
SECURITY forces have launched a search for two journalists from the American television network CBS who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their hotel in the Iraqi city of Basra, an official said
A MODERATE earthquake shook southern Lebanon overnight causing no damage but sending many panicked residents into the streets in the coastal town of Tyre, officials said
US forces have found the bodies of 13 men in a mass grave in Iraq`s restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, police said, the latest such grisly find in recent months
ARAB countries, at the initiative of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have adopted a document which imposes "regulations" on Arab satellite television and bars offending their regimes
SEVERAL people were arrested in Denmark today in connection with a plot to murder one of the 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006, Danish media said
RUSSIA and China have proposed a new treaty to ban the use of weapons in space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a conference on disarmament in Geneva
SWEDEN`S Olympic Committee (SOC) said it would allow its athletes competing at the Beijing Games to express themselves freely as long as they respect International Olympic Committee regulations
CHAOS deepened in Nicolas Sarkozy`s political stronghold, as the French President`s plunging poll numbers fuelled fears of a looming election disaster for his right-wing camp
THE Barclays Premier League is confident the plan to play matches abroad will become reality after a positive initial reaction from the English Football Association
QUEENSLAND Roar coach Frank Farina remains confident that striker Reinaldo will be fit to lead the attack in the A-League preliminary final at EnergyAustralia Stadium
IT was to have been the series which relaunched Channel 9`s bid to recapture the title of the nation`s premier network
A SCREENWRITER has sued Mel Gibson, claiming he was misled into accepting a small payment for The Passion of the Christ
WHEN Daniel Craig hit the screen as the new 007, women everywhere gasped and men held their stomachs in
TIM Campbell has ended months of speculation and confirmed that he is seeing Idol heart-throb Anthony Callea
SYDNEY group Bluejuice always had an inkling they could attract radio airplay with their unique brand of tongue-in-cheek danceable pop
NATALIE Cole has spoken out against Amy Winehouse`s haul of Grammy awards, saying the star`s multiple wins sent a "bad message"
THE rock`n`roll romance between Sophie Monk and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden is over, according to Monk`s rep
