An Irishman and a British woman accused of engaging in sexual activities in a Dubai taxi have been sentenced to three months in prison and then deportation, their lawyer said.

Libya's deputy foreign minister accused Nato today of intensifying its bombing campaign and backing foreign mercenaries to lay the groundwork for an advance by rebels trying to topple Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

Hundreds of angry Shiites poured onto the streets of two cities south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad today to protest over what they considered insults by Al-Jazeera television against Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.