AT least six people were killed in a car bombing in Baghdad today targeting Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala for a religious festival, police and hospital officials said
AT least 18 Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala for a religious festival were among 22 people killed today as a spate of bomb blasts rocked Iraq, security officials said
US financier Morris Talansky, key witness in a case against Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has decided not to return to Israel for further testimony this month, the justice ministry said today
SIX American sailors working as prison camp guards in Iraq face courts martial for abusing detainees, some of whom were sealed in a cell with pepper spray
THE bodies of three Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while six people are missing
PALESTINIANS are mourning the death of poet Mahmud Darwish who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world`s greatest writers
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Salam Fayyad knew he had a big problem - foreign donors hadn`t given him enough cash to pay public service salaries this month
EGYPT is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king
