The Pakistani government has ordered foreign staff members of Save the Children to leave the country, a spokesman for the international aid group said today.

Five civilians, including a three-year-old child, were killed when a minivan hit a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, authorities said today.

A former Cambodian drug tsar has been jailed for life for committing the very crime he was hired to fight.

Most of the 35 Iraqi terror suspects who tunnelled their way out of a detention facility today were quickly recaptured, a security official said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother, a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Afghan government, was assassinated at his home in southern Afghanistan today, an official said.

A roadside bomb ripped through a van in the south of Afghanistan, killing 13 people, the country’s government said today.

A SUICIDE car bomber attacked a health clinic in eastern Afghanistan yesterday as women and children lined up for maternity care and vaccinations, killing at least 35 people in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians this year.

FIVE American troops serving as advisers to Iraqi security police in eastern Baghdad were killed yesterday when rockets slammed into the compound where they lived.

THE Formula One teams appear to be on a collision course with the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone after yesterday’s contentious decision regarding the rescheduling of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Formula One teams appear to be on a collision course with the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone after today’s contentious decision regarding the rescheduling of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Yemeni police armed with sticks and daggers beat back thousands of protesters marching through the capital in a third straight day of demonstrations calling for political reforms and the resignation of the country’s US-allied president.

At least six people were killed in an explosion that rocked a grocery store frequented by foreigners in Kabul.

An Afghan man working for the United Nations was shot and killed in his vehicle today near a busy traffic island in Afghanistan’s capital, the world body said.

A series of bomb blasts near the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad has killed 12 people and injured at least 25 others, Iraqi officials said today.

A remote-controlled bomb killed six Afghan civilians today as they travelled in the centre of the country, an official said.

Two US service members and four Afghan policemen were killed today in separate explosions in eastern Afghanistan, an area rife with violence, officials said.

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, arrived back in Britain today and declared: “I never imagined this would happen. I am just an ordinary primary school teacher.”

Thousands of Haitians sought shelter in schools as the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel rose to 143 across the Caribbean.

Iraq’s prime minister today disputed Blackwater USA’s version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead and declared he would not tolerate “the killing of our citizens in cold blood.”

Calling militant attacks “cowardly work,” Afghan President Hamid Karzai today deplored a suicide bombing that killed 12 schoolchildren and accused militants of running from battle by donning women’s clothing.

Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighbourhoods of Iraq’s capital, despite the coalition’s new Baghdad security plan, the UN said today.

A senior figure in an outlawed Sunni Muslim militant group that has been linked to al-Qaida was among six men arrested last week in eastern Pakistan, a police official said today.

In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier’s family can have his sperm impregnated into the body of a woman he never met.

The Palestinian government’s security chief, a key player in rocket attacks on Israel, was killed late yesterday in an Israeli air strike that threatened to escalate clashes between the two sides into a far fiercer conflict.

Iraq’s prime minister disclosed today that more than 170 malnourished Iraqi detainees were found at an Interior Ministry detention centre and that some appeared to have been tortured.

In a rare move, the Iraqi government criticised the state-run television network today for “whipping up emotions” by airing footage from the bombings at a Baghdad bus station and accused a leading Arab satellite station of airing false reports.

A suicide truck bomber targeted a Baghdad police station today, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 30, police said.

Scattered attacks across Baghdad left two policemen dead today, including a senior police official.

The son of Lebanon’s slain former prime minister, whose anti-Syrian slate swept to victory in the final round of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, has reached out to his defeated opponents with promises that he would not “close the door on anyone".

Iraqis voted today in their country’s first free election in half a century, defying threats of violence from militants vowing to sabotage the balloting.

A SUICIDE car bomber linked to al-Qaida killed 13 people in Baghdad yesterday as seven US Marines were also killed on the first anniversary of the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Tropical Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwaters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people and leaving dozens of Haitian families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said.

The author of a report into collusion between the security forces and paramilitary killers in Northern Ireland is to attend a Belfast conference into corruption within police force ranks.

Shooting erupted in the Saudi capital Riyadh after a police patrol tried to stop a car, the Ministry of Interior said today.

Six suspected militants and two Saudi Arabian policeman were killed today in a shoot-out north of the capital, Riyadh.