Al-Qaida leader urges Muslims to wage holy war against U.S., Israel
The leader of al Qaeda has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam. Ayman...
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Car suicide bomb kills 16 in Pakistan
A suicide bomber on Saturday blew up a car at a crowded market in a north-western Pakistani tribal town, killing at least 16 people and...
UN adopts resolution on northern Mali
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution paving the way for military intervention in Mali to retake the north from Islamist extremists. The resolution requests...
Francophonie summit brings Harper to a city in lockdown
Prime Minister Stephen Harper flew to Kinshasa on Friday night, into a city in lockdown, where protests were banned, soldiers were stationed on the main...
Nobel winner Mo urges Liu Xiaobo’s freedom
China’s newly-named Nobel laureate for literature, Mr Mo Yan, expressed hope yesterday that an imprisoned Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be freed,...
European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a...
Mystery Florida eyeball is probably from ’10ft swordfish’, experts say
Suggestions of eyeball’s origin included a giant squid, a bigeye thresher shark and an unusually large sailfish. A giant eyeball found washed up on a Florida beach...
Fact-checking the vice presidential debate
In the one-and-only vice presidential debate of the general election campaign, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican candidate Rep. Paul Ryan went head-to-head over issues...
Four factors pushing Turkey and Syria to war
Neither Turkey nor Syria want a war, but both sides don’t want to appear to back down and there are four factors pushing them towards a...
Turkey intercepts Syrian plane; it leaves after arms inspection
Turkey scrambled fighter planes to force a Syrian passenger jet to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to...