A car bombing near Syria’s ruling party headquarters in Damascus has killed 53 people, according to state media, while mortar rounds exploded near the army’s central command in the city.

At least two people have died in a suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the US Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara, police say.

The president of Central African Republic urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital city, but French officials declined to offer any military assistance.

Fiction couldn’t be any stranger than the truth in Argo, based on real-life events following the 1979 storming of the US Embassy in Tehran.

France has stepped up security at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical magazine published crude caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.

The US has temporarily closed its consulate in Indonesia’s third-largest city due to ongoing protests over an anti-Islam film produced in America.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

Chanting “death to America,” hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital and burned the American flag today, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

Iran has released 11 hardline students held for storming the British Embassy and diplomatic compounds in Tehran.

Residents in Manila waded through waist-deep floodwater, dodging branches and flying debris today as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire areas of the Philippines capital.

More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the British Embassy in Madrid tonight to protest at the detention of the founder of the WikiLeaks website and the closing of the site's Swiss bank account.

Militants fired a rocket at a convoy carrying Britain’s deputy ambassador in Yemen and killed a Frenchman working for an oil company today in a pair of attacks increasing fears over the safety of Westerners.

FINBARR KIRWAN, High Performance Director with the Irish Sports Council (ISC), praised not only the achievement of the Irish boxers at the European championships in Moscow but their commitment, the preparations and the team that masterminded the record medal haul.

SUICIDE attackers detonated three car bombs near embassies in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 42 people and wounding more than 200 in back-to-back bombings.

Preparations were today under way for the return to the UK of former hostage Peter Moore after his release yesterday from two and a half years of captivity in Iraq.

Iranian security forces attacked anti-government protesters on the streets of Tehran today as state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover took place nearby.

Iranian riot troops attacked anti-government protesters with batons and tear gas today during state-backed rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran.

A SUICIDE car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling centre of the Afghan capital yesterday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement – a charge Pakistan denied.

At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in the busy centre of Kabul as commuters arrived for work today, officials said.

GAA president Christy Cooney has defended the fee levied on the Ladies Football Association for the use of Croke Park last Sunday and rejected any suggestion that the figure extended into six figures.

Today’s suicide car bomb explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul killed four civilians and wounded 91 Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry spokesman said.

South East Asia’s most wanted terrorist was reportedly shot and killed by police officers who stormed a suspected militant hide-out in Indonesia today to end a 16-hour siege.

More than 30 firms from the Republic and the North take part in one of the biggest trade missions to Russia this week.

A US soldier was among at least five people killed today by a suicide car bomb attack on a heavily guarded road between the German Embassy and a US military base in the Afghan capital Kabul.

A suicide car bomb attack today on a heavily guarded road between the German Embassy and a US military base in the Afghan capital killed two Afghan civilians and wounded five US troops, officials said.

Explosions and gunfire have been heard around the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital San'a, officials said today.

Around 2,000 protesters rallied outside Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, demanding that it revoke the diplomatic passport of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and extradite him from Britain.

A car bomb exploded near the Iranian Embassy today in Baghdad, killing at least two civilians and wounding five, police said.

China urged its citizens to be “calm” and “rational” as nationalistic protests against French supermarket Carrefour spread today to more cities across the country.

Chinese cheerleaders and Tibetan protesters greeted the Olympic flame today amid a massive security clampdown for the latest leg of the international torch relay in India, home to the world’s largest Tibetan exile community.

America gave Serbia a blunt warning against inciting violence after an angry mob protesting at the independence declared by its former province of Kosovo stormed and set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade.

One of the world's most-wanted terrorists has been killed in a car bomb explosion in the Syrian capital Damascus.

A suicide bomber drove his lorry into a police station north of Baghdad today in the deadliest of a series of blasts that killed at least 24 people.

Relatives of those who died in the September 11 terror attacks will remember their loved ones as they descend a ramp into Ground Zero this week.

Dozens of Shiite villagers in northern Iraq were massacred by Sunni extremists, officials said today, while car bombs killed at least a dozen people in Baghdad.

Hundreds of protesters carried an effigy of Uncle Sam and staged a mock trial of US President George Bush in demonstrations against his visit to the Czech Republic and American plans to build a missile defence system.

A 26-year-old was tonight released with a police caution after he had earlier climbed onto a balcony at the Irish Embassy in London.

An Irish protester was arrested by police today after climbing onto the Irish Embassy building in London.

The US and North Korea today stepped up diplomacy at international arms talks, meeting one-on-one to address the communist nation’s nuclear weapons program and alleged financial crimes that have been an obstacle to the disarmament negotiations.

Armed Islamic militants attempted to storm the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria, today in a bold attack using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives.

An American military convoy was the target of a massive suicide car bombing that killed at least 10 people including two US soldiers in the Afghan capital today.

About 100 demonstrators threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran today, damaging the building but harming nobody.

England World Cup footballer Wayne Bridge was injured during a “disturbance” outside a nightclub, it emerged today.

Several hundred students threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran in protest at the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq.