A French journalist has been found strangled with an electrical wire in his hotel room in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, security officials say.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for his regime’s deadly crackdown on months of protests.

Yemeni government troops have shelled residential areas in the restive southern city of Taiz for a fourth straight day, killing three people on Friday, residents said.

Heavy fighting has broken out in the Yemeni capital Sanaa between security forces and an army unit that joined the popular uprising against autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s agreement to step down failed to end the violence today as security forces killed five protesters.

YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a Gulf initiative last night to hand over power to his deputy as part of a proposal to end months of protests that have pushed the Arab country to the brink of civil war.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed an agreement to transfer power to his vice president.

Yemen’s embattled president must speed up reforms and begin a transfer of power according to a plan backed by the international community, a UN envoy said.

Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional female veils in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people.

Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional female veils today in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said.

Clashes between Yemeni government troops and a renegade army unit killed at least 20 people, including three civilians, in the capital Sanaa, officials said.

Fighting between troops loyal to Yemen's embattled leader and rival forces killed at least 18 people, including eight supporters of a powerful tribal chief who defected to the opposition in March.

Security forces in Yemen have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital, killing at least two people, a medical official said.

The media chief for al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch has been killed along with six other people in an airstrike, Yemen’s Defence Ministry said today.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he is willing to leave power in his first major speech since returning to the country.

Three women have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women’s roles in the spread of global peace, writes Bjoern Amland.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women’s rights.

Tribesmen shot down a Yemeni government warplane which was bombing their positions north of the capital Sanaa today, military officials said.

A Yemeni medic says 16 people have died as government forces and snipers attacked an opposition protest camp in the capital Sanaa.

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for a ceasefire after returning to the country, saying the only way out of the crisis is through negotiations.

Yemeni state television and radio said President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to the country from Saudi Arabia after an absence of more than three months following a rocket attack on his compound.

Renewed violence in Sanaa killed at least 15 people today as forces loyal to the Yemeni regime and its opponents shelled each other’s strategic positions from hills surrounding the capital, medical and security officials said.

BURSTS of shelling threatened a fragile new truce in Yemen’s capital Sanaa late yesterday as politicians scrambled to end the bloodiest fighting in eight months.

Rapidly escalating street battles between opponents of Yemen's regime and forces loyal to its embattled president spread to the home districts of senior government figures and other highly sensitive areas of the capital today.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Yemen have stormed the main university in the capital Sanaa, preventing the first day of classes from beginning and tearing down pictures of the long-time leader whose ousting they seek.

Clashes broke out in Yemen’s second most populous city between tribes and security forces during protests demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down.

YEMENI air force jets hit an al-Qaeda stronghold town in the south of the country, killing seven civilians when they mistakenly struck the wrong mosque, a local official said yesterday.

Yemen's ailing President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for an end to months of street protests seeking his ousting and urged dialogue during the holy month of Ramadan to end the crisis.

Residents of a town in southern Yemen overrun by radical Islamists say government shelling has killed more than 20 militants in the past two days.

YEMEN’S acting leader has put forward a new plan to end the country’s political stalemate, which would keep President Ali Abdullah Saleh in power longer than previously outlined.

At least 40 al-Qaida prisoners escaped from jail in Yemen today.

Yemeni soldiers battled Islamic militants today in an attempt to drive them from several southern towns under the control of hundreds of the fighters. The clashes killed 30 people on both sides, officials said.

YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh is out of intensive care in Saudi Arabia where he is being treated for bomb blast wounds, prompting celebratory gunfire that hurt dozens of people.

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh was burned on more than 40% of his body and suffered bleeding in the brain from last weekend’s attack on his palace, US officials said, indicating his wounds were worse than initially reported.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was more badly injured than first thought in a blast at his compound last week.

THE US made clear yesterday that it wants Yemen’s government to seize on the absence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a bid to effect a peaceful, orderly political transition.

Violence threatened a return to chaos in Yemen today with at least six people killed after a day of jubilation over the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen’s capital today to celebrate the departure of the country’s authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound.

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia for urgent medical care after a rocket attack on his palace, raising the spectre of a violent power grab in the impoverished country shaken by months of protests calling for his ousting.

Yemen’s embattled president accepted an offer from the Saudi monarch to seek treatment in his kingdom after being wounded in a rocket attack, raising the possibility today that he could leave the country after nearly four months of mass protests seeking to end his 33-year rule.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebellious tribesmen struck his palace with rockets, targeting him for the first time in a dramatic escalation of fighting that has turned parts of the Yemeni capital into a battleground and pushed the country toward civil war.

YEMENI President Ali Abdullah Saleh suffered minor injuries when opposition tribesmen hammered his palace with rockets yesterday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces.

Wounded Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh tonight called on armed forces around the country to move against the “armed gangs” who hit his palace with rockets.