Treasury unit grants license for al-Awlaki lawyers
The government issued a license Wednesday enabling private lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of the CIA's targeting of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen hiding in Yemen....
Rain brings Pakistan more misery
Poor weather forces more evacuations as Pakistan endures its worst floods in 80 years, with yet more heavy rain forecast.
Ukraine crop shrinks
Grain harvesters moved into Russia's rain-starved regions as the UN's food agency cut its 2010 global wheat forecast and warned world supplies may shrink next year if Russia's worst drought in over 100 years continues.
India 'regrets' Kashmir killings
India says that it deeply regrets loss of life in the Kashmir Valley where at least 28 people have been killed in the past week.
New York Mosque plans face lawsuit
A planned mosque and Muslim cultural centre near the site of the September 11 attacks faces a new hurdle as a lawsuit has been filed aiming to block the controversial project.
British Muslim MP charged with bigamy
The leader of the Conservative party on Slough Borough Council has been charged with bigamy.
Alcohol gangs peddle dangerous brews at labour camps
The workers, most of whom cannot afford to buy legal alcohol, risk blindness or death when they drink spirits mixed with lethal ingredients.
Peacekeepers ‘lost contact with Israeli general’
Analysis The Israeli general responsible for liaison with UN peacekeepers did not pick up his phone, three UN officials reveal.
State demolishes Beduin homes again
A week after the unrecognized Beduin settlement was leveled in an operation secured by over 1,300 police officers, bulldozers returned on Wednesday to Kafr al-Arakib to demolish structures that residents had rebuilt.
Wyclef to run for Haiti president
Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean is to announce plans to stand for president of the earthquake-hit Caribbean country.
First Sledgehammer suspect placed behind bars
Retired Col. Ahmet Şentürk was arrested on Wednesday by an İstanbul court as part of an ongoing probe into an alleged coup plan, making him the first person to be imprisoned due to suspected links to the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot.
China's trade with Iran 'legal'
Chinese investment in Iran isn't violating any UN resolution, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, refuting a US arms control official's remarks on Monday that China is "taking advantage of the responsible restraint of other countries."
Aboriginal children 'starving'
Aboriginal children are starving in some remote Northern Territory areas, welfare workers tell the Australian government.
Airships: a second age
They were once the future of travel. Now, more than 70 years after the Hindenburg crash, engineers are designing a new fleet of airships
Getting away with torture
Eight years ago, two Justice Department lawyers -- John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- put the finishing touches on a secret memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales with the anodyne title “Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 USC.
Nothing speaks of home quite like language
Living in Beijing, I don't usually come into contact with the Cantonese language, except when a Hong Kong magazine is thrown in my lap at the nail salon or Canto-pop drifts into my open window from a karaoke-equipped restaurant downstairs. But recently, Cantonese has been all over the mainstream headlines.
Time Magazine Cover of Disfigured Afghan Stokes Debate
Time Magazine’s cover of an 18-year-old Afghan whose nose was severed for fleeing a marriage has sparked debate on the fate of women if American troops leave.
What Darwin Got Wrong - review
Neo-Darwinism is, very roughly, the claim that natural selection is by far the most important explanation of biological form, the particular characteristics of particular kinds of organism. It usually includes a commitment to gradualism (the idea that evolution occurs in small steps), and often involves attributing central importance to genes as the units that natural selection selects, or at any rate as the objective measure of evolutionary change.
Fidel Castro to address Cuba's National Assembly for first time in four years
Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader, is expected to address the communist country's National Assembly for the first time in four years on Saturday.
Chinese want more flood protection: Poll
More than 80 percent of people in a survey blamed the flood disasters in recent months on a destroyed natural ecosystem.
Dumped prime minister enters Australian election campaign
Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister dumped by his own party, has vowed to campaign for the woman who replaced him, in a rare show of unity for a government that appears bitterly divided ahead of elections later this month.
Primaries in Missouri, Kansas and Michigan
Early reports on Tuesday primaries in Missouri, Kansas and Michigan all had essentially the same theme: Where is everyone?
Naftogaz owes $780 million for July gas
Ukrainian utility company Naftogaz owes Russian gas monopoly Gazprom nearly $800 million for July gas purchases, an official in Kyiv said. Naftogaz Chief Executive Officer Yevgeny Bakulin said his company owed Gazprom around $780 million for July gas
Jordan reduces budget deficit by 70% , holds $ 4.831 billion reserves
Jordan's budget deficit has shrunk by 70 percent in the first six months of the current year, official data showed.
Radical learning?
Muslim women 'targeted by extremists' on campuses
Cross-dressers flogged in Sudan
A group of men are flogged in Sudan after a court rules they broke strict moral codes by dressing and dancing in a "womanly" way.
Italy minister says snap polls possible in autumn
Snap Italian elections could be held as early as the autumn as a result of a break-up between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a key ex-ally, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said on Wednesday.
Why men can shirk housework
Men should be allowed to shirk housework because the idea that women are overburdened by professional and domestic duties is a myth, a study has claimed.
US judge rejects gay marriage ban
A US federal judge overturns California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages, saying it is unconstitutional.
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