A giant Saudi oil tanker seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean is nearing the coast of Somalia, the US Navy says. The Sirius Star is the biggest tanker ever to be hijacked, with a cargo of 2m barrels - a quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily output - worth more

The Israeli Transport Minister,Iranian born Shaul Mofaz, want to go to the history as a Jew who campaigned for a holocaust on Palestinian leaders and the Palestinian resistance .Mofaz well known for his readiness to use crushing military force...

In Nigeria, rogue pastors prey on fears of black magic to drum up a lucrative trade in 'exorcisms'

The extent of the harmony seen on Friday was rare: EU leaders and Russian President Medvedev agreed to new talks in Nice about political and economic partnership between Moscow and Europe. There was even talk of a "pan-European security pact."

Bush is the wrong host. Washington is the wrong venue. His guest list is too selective. And Bush has made it clear he is still clinging to erroneous policies that created the crisis in the first place. The UN offered to host the summit; it's a World mess.

"As we condemned him in life, too, we condemn him in death," Philly Foot Soldier spokesman Zachariah Walker says. "As he did not let us live in peace in life, we will not let him rest in peace in death."

A local geological agency official says a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck eastern Indonesia. © 2008 Associated Press

The Iraqi cabinet has approved a security pact with the United States that will govern the presence of American troops in the country until their planned withdrawal in three years time. © 2008 BBC

An ex-soldier who served in the Gulf War has been found guilty of at least one of the Washington sniper killings in October last year. John Allen Muhammad, 42, may now face the death penalty. He was convicted of shooting dead Dean Meyers at a petrol .....

Homemakers Magazine editor in chief Kathy Ullyott speaks with Stephen Dohnberg about the struggle of women and what she witnessed during her visit to Kabul, Afghanistan The conversation reveals what a complex situation the Western presence in Afghanistan