A WOMAN suicide bomber blew herself up outside a courthouse north of the Iraqi capital today, killing killing six security personnel and three civilians
A BATTLE over hommus and tabbouleh is shaping up between Lebanon and Israel - two neighbours still technically at war - with efforts being made to clearly identify such dishes as exclusively Lebanese
THE Islamist Hamas movement sent a delegation to Egypt today for talks aimed at restoring Palestinian unity amid a dispute over the presidency that could sharpen internal divisions
IRANIAN fighter jets have forced an aircraft carrying US troops to land in Iran after it entered its air space without permission, the Fars news agency said today
FIFTEEN Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels were killed in an audacious rebel attack near the Iraqi border, the army said today, in the bloodiest skirmish in a year
ELEVEN people were killed, including three women and three children, when a suicide bomber struck and a gunbattle broke out during a US raid on a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul today, the US military said
IRAN will continue with uranium enrichment, the focus of international fears about its nuclear program, even if the country is promised supplies of nuclear reactor fuel, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today
VISITING French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned that Israel would strike archfoe Iran before it was able to develop nuclear weapons, in comments published today
ELEVEN people were killed, including three women and three children, when a suicide bomber struck and a gunbattle broke out during a US raid on a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul today, the US military said
Cool discovery ... the supposed body of a Bigfoot crammed into a freezer, while the hunters who claimed the find prepare to present more proof. Pic: Screengrab from searchingforbigfoot.com website