Monthly Archives: October 2009

A Yemeni court sentenced to death on Tuesday 10 members of a Shiite insurgency movement in the north that has displaced tens of thousands and raised doubts about the government's grip in the region.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said.

A double suicide bombing at a university campus in Pakistan's capital on Tuesday killed up to seven people, including the two bombers, an administration official said.

Citing political considerations, the British Museum has gone back on a pledge to send a famous cuneiform document from the time of King Cyrus to Iran,

A Christian man was killed in southern Egypt by attackers who accused his son of having an affair with a Muslim girl, police said yesterday.

North Texans were both angry and relieved last month when federal agents arrested a Jordanian teenager in a failed plot to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.

Insurgents of the Somali al-Shabaab group shot down a U.S. drone aircraft flying over the southern port of Kismayu on Monday and were searching for the wreckage, an insurgent spokesman said.

United States President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a new strategy on Sudan, offering incentives if the Khartoum government worked toward peace, but said it faced tougher steps if it failed to act.

HATE preacher Anjem Choudary sparked fury yesterday after calling for the Queen to become Muslim.