A PALESTINIAN bulldozer driver has been shot dead in central Jerusalem after injuring at least 16 people in an attack mimicking one earlier in the month, Israeli police and rescue services said
FUELLED by soaring oil prices, Kuwait has ambitious plans to invest $132 billion building a model city in its northern desert, complete with rail links to the rest of the Middle East, central Asia and China
AN explosives-filled tractor exploded in a restive region of Iraq`s Diyala province today, killing at least seven members of a local anti al-Qaeda group, a police officer said
ISRAEL plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948
AN Israeli soldier is seen shooting an arrested and bound Palestinian in the leg with a plastic bullet, in a video released by an Israeli human rights group
AT least eight women and one man have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran and may be executed at any time, the lawyers defending several of those sentenced said today
US forces shot dead the 17-year-old son and another relative of the governor of northern Iraq`s Salahuddin province in a raid today, local officials said
US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to set a "time horizon" for US troop withdrawals as part of a long-term security pact
