A suicide attacker has killed 15 soldiers and wounded at least 40 more in a car bombing at Yemen’s defence ministry.

The US State Department says 18 of the 19 US embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa that have been closed due to a terrorist threat will reopen tomorrow or on Monday.

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award yesterday for an image of a woman holding a wounded relative after a demonstration in Yemen.

ON the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq the lessons of two disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been learned.

SUPPORTERS of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh tightened their control of Sanaa’s central square yesterday, after crowding out a planned opposition rally there the previous day.