ISRAEL`S Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations
IRAQ forces supported by US troops laid siege to the city of Baqouba and arrested 35 suspects today, the second day of a major assault on al-Qaeda fighters in dangerous Diyala province
ISRAELI troops shot three Palestinians with rubber bullets in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics say
A SAUDI appeals court upheld a jail and flogging verdict against a biochemist and his female student whose research contact was ruled to be a front for a telephone affair that led her to divorce her husband
Bad to worse ... Wayne Carey and girlfriend Kate Neilson have admitted they both abuse cocaine. Picture: Norm Oorloff
