Snow has fallen in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for the first time in living memory.
LONDON - Eyebrows were raised in the House of Commons on Thursday when a motion calling for the Church of England to be disestablished was listed with the number 666, symbol of the Anti-Christ.
In a letter handed to US president, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu warns him not to take action that would harm Jewish people. "The Jewish nation forever remembers those that inflict harm upon it"
Hospitals are treating more than a thousand cases of serious alcohol-related conditions every day of the year, it was revealed last night.
Yasuo Fukuda's government on Friday used its two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament to bulldoze a law through parliament that will allow Japanese naval vessels to supply oil to allied ships on anti-terror missions in the Indian Ocean.
Bush's trip to Ramallah produced plenty of happy talk.
A suicide bomber struck in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, ending a two-week lull since the spate of spontaneous violence that followed the December 27 assassination of former prime minister and parliamentary candidate Benazir Bhutto.
Middle East Quartet envoy and former UK PM Tony Blair says he believes it is possible for a peace deal to be reached between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding along the Zambezi valley, authorities say.
International and domestic observers have also raised their concerns. There are several reasons to be suspicious about the official results
Kenya's main opposition party will resume mass protests after last month's disputed elections, its spokesman says.
NAIROBI - An African Union mission ended in failure on Thursday to resolve a political crisis in Kenya that has killed 500 people. The president and opposition leader accused each other of wrecking talks.
In a speech last night at the London School of Economics, Europe Minister Jim Murphy argued that opposition in the UK to the revised Constitutional Treaty is based on "all sorts of made up stories".
The former prime minister - who is said to be earning as much as £1 million a month from speaking fees - will supplement his income as an adviser to JP Morgan, one of the biggest names on Wall Street.
The pound has slipped to a new record low against the euro and a 9½-month low against the dollar as markets bet that the Bank of England will cut interest rates today.