Al-Qaida in Yemen has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at the weekend which killed at least 25 people.

FRANCE’S prime minister has condemned an apparent arson attack that destroyed the offices of a satirical French newspaper that had “invited” the Prophet Muhammad as a guest editor.

Tens of thousands of Syrians carrying olive branches and calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad's regime have poured into the flashpoint city of Hama, where the US and French ambassadors travelled in a strong show of support for the protest movement.

Somalia is more dangerous for civilians than Afghanistan or Iraq, a group that works to prevent civilian deaths said.

At least 40 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded in the Somalian capital in fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers.

One of four men charged accused of plotting a suicide attack on an Australian military base angrily denied he was a terrorist today and accused the country’s troops of killing innocent people overseas.

IRAQ and Iran could only be “tamed” through a second world war-type effort by the western powers involving drafts, rationing and sacrifice, Libertas founder Declan Ganley suggested in a little-seen paper.

At least 43 people died in Algeria’s deadliest terrorist attack since the 1990s when a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into applicants queuing outside a police academy today.

An al-Qaida-linked militant claimed responsibility on tonight for suicide boat attacks that killed three Americans and disabled Iraq’s biggest terminal for more than 24 hours.