PAKISTANI Taliban militants have kidnapped 30 security forces from a police station in the northwestern Swat Valley today, a day after killing three intelligence men
AL-QAEDA chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar was believed to have been killed today in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, security officials said
THREE suicide bombers, believed to be women, have killed 25 Shi`ite pilgrims as they headed to a holy shrine in Baghdad for a major religious ceremony that has been marred by bloodshed in the past
OIL prices rose today after rebels said they had sabotaged two pipelines in Nigeria, a major exporter of crude, and analysts said that the market was also tracking developments over Iran
AT least 10 Shiite pilgrims were killed in three suicide bomb attacks as they marched in a central district of Baghdad, security and hospital officials told AFP
THE grand master of Arab cinema, Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, died at the age of 82 in Cairo today after an often controversial career which spanned half a century
GUNMEN shot dead seven pilgrims heading to a holy Shiite shrine in Baghdad today despite tight security for a major religious ceremony expected to attract up to one million worshippers
IRAN has hanged 29 people convicted of drug trafficking, murder and rape in the notorious Tehran prison of Evin, the state broadcaster reported on its website
FOUR Palestinian militants and a little girl were killed today in an explosion near a beach outside Gaza City, officials at the Shifa hospital and the Hamas movement said
Video ... Princess Di`s former butler Paul Burrell was caught on camera admitting he lied to the ongoing inquest into her death, a British newspaper has reported / AP
