SEVEN people including a six-year-old boy were killed in Taliban-style bombings in Afghanistan today, including a suicide attack in the insurgency-hit south, officials said]]>
LEBANON and Syria have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, opening embassies in each others` capitals for the first time since their independence from colonial rule
IRAN has dismissed speculation that it risked being attacked by the United States over its contested nuclear drive, saying that a military strike would be "craziness"
IRANIAN police have arrested a man suspected of murdering a total of eight women, six of them in a spate of serial killings in Tehran`s satellite city Karaj
Big day out ... Manuel Uribe, who weighs 310kg, visits the beach in his first outing in five months / AP
