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Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war."
An extremist Muslim cleric, described by a judge as Osama bin Laden's spiritual ambassador in Europe, is to be released on bail a judge ruled today.
Royal Mail's post bag has shrunk by three million letters a day in the last year, pushing its regulated letters and parcels business into a £200 million loss.
Cannabis is to be reclassified as a class B drug, Jacqui Smith has said.
Armed police have been shot at after being called to a square of residential homes in Chelsea, west London. The officers returned fire but it is not thought that anyone has been injured.
Afghanistan’s defense minister confirmed Sunday that a police captain was connected with the group behind the assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai a week earlier and that an army officer supplied the weapons and ammunition used in the attack.
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.
Police in Zimbabwe have freed more than 180 opposition activists without charge four days after they were detained.
This comes as a Zimbabwean human rights group accuses the government of using violence in rural areas to rig a possible presidential run-off.
A BBC contributor in the southern town of Masvingo reports that the bodies of two opposition activists have been found after they were abducted.
Allies of President Robert Mugabe say the violence is being exaggerated.
Another BBC contributor, in the eastern town of Mutare, reports that opposition activists are starting to take ...
DNA evidence supports an Austrian man's confession that he fathered six children by his daughter while keeping her prisoner for 24 years, police say.
China appeared to bend to international pressure on Friday as the government announced it would meet with envoys of the Dalai Lama, an unexpected shift that comes as Tibetan unrest in western China has threatened to cast a pall over the Beijing Olympics in August.
Turkey said its warplanes struck Kurdish separatist targets inside northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday in what military sources called the biggest Turkish air operation in northern Iraq this year.
China has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest user of the internet, thanks to a rise of more than 61 per cent of people in the country using the web in the past year.
About a third of schools in England and Wales have been disrupted by the first national teachers' strike in 21 years.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was the "clear" victor of last month's poll, a top US envoy says.
Jendayi Frazer was speaking in South Africa, at the start of a tour to lobby Zimbabwe's neighbours to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe.
The results of the presidential election have not been released.
Mr Tsvangirai says he won outright but the ruling party has said no candidate gained 50% of the vote, so a run-off will be needed.
The opposition says its supporters are being attacked ahead of the run-off - claims denied ...
The Government wants councils to spy on supermarkets shoppers to find out where eastern Europeans are settling in Britain.
Bolstered by record crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported huge first-quarter profits and fueled new congressional vows to come up with legislation that would tax windfall profits or demonstrate concern about high gasoline prices.
President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy.
The Scottsdale-based stun gun manufacturer increasingly is targeting state and county medical examiners with lawsuits and lobbying efforts to reverse and prevent medical rulings that Tasers contributed to someone's death.
A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.
The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
Film star Wesley Snipes should spend three years in prison and be fined $5m (£2.5m) over tax evasion charges, US prosecutors have said.
The actor was found guilty in February of failing to submit tax returns, although he was cleared of more serious charges, including fraud.
Prosecutors have now recommended that he faced the maximum penalty for a "brazen defiance" of US tax laws.
The 45-year-old star of Blade was not immediately available for comment.
In court papers filed on Monday, ...
Oil prices rose slightly to near mid-$110 a barrel Friday after slipping from a record at midweek as investors locked in profits from a stronger U.S. dollar.
An unexpected decline in U.S. crude and gasoline inventories drove oil prices to a trading record of $112.21 a barrel on Wednesday amid concerns about inadequate supplies.
But oil slipped back the next day after data from tanker tracking firm Oil Movements showed that shipments from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries rose last week. Oil Movements’ report suggests more supplies might ...
By Heather Stewart
The Guardian
America's mortgage crisis has spiralled into "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression" and there is now a one-in-four chance of a full-blown global recession over the next 12 months, the International Monetary Fund warned today.
The US is already sliding into what the IMF predicts will be a "mild recession" but there is mounting pessimism about the ability of the rest of the world to escape unscathed, the IMF said in its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook. Britain is particularly vulnerable, it warned, as it ...
Authorities stormed the temple of a Texas ranch that's home to a rogue Mormon sect Saturday, as part of a search for victims of physical and sexual abuse, police said.
Police called in ambulances and other emergency vehicles as they prepared to search the polygamist group's temple, officials said.
Authorities wanted medical backup "in case they're involved in sensitive areas that could escalate into a negative reaction," a law enforcement source said. A police helicopter circled the ranch Saturday night.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a ...
A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
The U.S. Defense Department accidentally shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The record of longtime Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan -- worshipped by business leaders and dubbed "Maestro" in a 2000 biography by The Post's Bob Woodward -- is getting a critical look as his successor Ben S. Bernanke wrestles with problems that began on the Maestro's watch.
The US mortgage-backed bond fund will collapse if, as expected, its lenders seize its remaining assets.
In afternoon trading, U.S. light crude for April delivery surged to a high of $110.20 before closing at $109.92. Oil had traded as low as at $107.09 following the report's release on Wednesday morning.
Crime-fighting New York Governor Eliot Spitzer came under mounting pressure to resign Tuesday, a day after the key ally of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was linked to a prostitution ring.