A SUICIDE bomber today rushed into a crowd of police recruits in central Iraq and detonated his explosives-laden vest, killing at least 25 people and wounding 40, the local police chief said
LEBANON must improve working conditions for migrant domestic workers, who often commit suicide or die while trying to escape from their employers, a US-based rights group says
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice admitted today the Israelis and Palestinians have a lot of work to do if they are to strike a peace deal by the end of the year
ISRAEL freed 198 Palestinian prisoners in a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in the region to spur US-backed peace talks
HEZBOLLAH chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed today to destroy Israel if it carries out threats to hit Lebanon should the government give greater legitimacy to the Shi`ite militant group
A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today
