Syria's bombardment of its citizens should be declared a war crime, Turkey's foreign minister told the World Economic Forum.

An officer who was investigating a corruption case against Pakistan’s Prime Minister has been found dead in the capital, Islamabad, police said today.

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Twenty civilians have been killed in an explosion in Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan, an official said today.

French police have said they will storm the flat where the suspected Jewish school massacre gunman is holed up if he does not surrender.

An Indian man has reportedly served 18 months of his brother-in-law's life sentence for murder.

In the days since the five brothers vanished at a checkpoint manned by Gaddafi loyalists, a small army of friends and relatives have fanned out across Tripoli.

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A CITY’S rapidly growing Muslim community will gather tomorrow to mark one of Islam’s holiest days.

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The Pakistani Taliban denied any role in the botched car bombing in Times Square but praised the suspect for a “brave job”, as New York authorities pressed him on his claims of terrorist training.

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett claims to have been “pleasantly surprised” on a visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss new club academies.

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett has played down speculation that a buy-out of the Barclays Premier League club is imminent.

US and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen firing heavy weapons from concrete high-rises in a Sunni insurgent stronghold north of the heavily fortified Green Zone today. Iraqi’s defense ministry said as many as 30 militants were killed and 27 captured.

MUSLIM leaders and Saudi princes bade farewell to King Fahd yesterday, saying prayers in a jammed mosque and then burying him in an unmarked desert grave in keeping with the kingdom’s austere version of Islam.

Heads of state from around the world jetted into the Saudi capital of Riyadh amid tight security today to attend the funeral of King Fahd, the oil-rich country’s ruler for almost a quarter of a century who died yesterday from a long illness.

Rangers have handed Lebanon captain Faisal Antar the chance to win a dream move to Britain.

IRAQ’S new governing council — a US sanctioned first step toward democratic government — put off selecting a president yesterday but voted to send a delegation to the UN Security Council.

The Iraqi National Congress (INC): Founded in 1992 as an umbrella group for other exiled opposition groups, the INC has since faced claims it acts unilaterally as its own party.

A LONDON-BASED Muslim cleric accused of supporting Osama bin Laden was found guilty yesterday of urging his followers to kill “enemies of Islam” in a holy war against non-believers.

SAUDI ARABIAN princes paid Osama bin Laden and the Taliban $200 million to spare targets in the oil-rich Gulf state, according to court papers.