Iran’s most influential powerbroker defied the Supreme Leader and used Friday prayers to declare the Islamic Republic “in crisis” yesterday as tens of thousands of protesters staged the largest show of dissent in weeks. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the leading cleric ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A former vice president has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the country's post-election unrest, official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. IRNA quoted the Tehran prosecutor, Abbas Jafari ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's official news agency reports a former vice president has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the country's postelection unrest. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as vice president during former ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran -An Iranian court sentenced a former vice president to six years in jail as part of a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest after the disputed June presidential election, the defendant's lawyer said Sunday. Mohammad ...Read More
KABUL, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Afghan parliament member Abdul Rasoul Sayaf on Friday escaped a roadside bomb attack in capital city Kabul, but his four bodyguards were killed and six injured. Witnesses said the bomb hit Sayaf's convoy in Paghman district, ...Read More
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras's post-coup de facto leader said on Friday he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after ...Read More
Nigel Bacon, 50, was found dead at his remote bungalow in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, last November, after a "planned, determined and cold-blooded killing", Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Mr Bacon's widow Susan Bacon, 55, his son Michael Bacon, 21, Michael Bacon's ...Read More
(CNN) -- De facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti will temporarily step down from power in the days surrounding the scheduled November 29 presidential election, Micheletti said in a speech Thursday.
Micheletti said he hopes that by stepping down from November 24 ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The White House stepped back Thursday evening from claims that the stimulus plan created or saved 640,329 jobs through September, in the face of mounting criticism over errors in reports by tens of thousands of recipients of stimulus ...Read More
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Aviation Administrationblamed a four-hour software failure for causing airline delaysand cancellations across the U.S. in at least the third suchdisruption since September 2007.
The shutdown lasted from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. New York timeafter ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional investigators said Thursday that tens of thousands of questionnaires aimed at measuring the mental and physical health of returning combat troops can't be found. As a result, the Government Accountability Office said, the military does not have ...Read More
As anticipated, Microsoft yesterday launched the first, and likely only, public beta of Office 2010. Because this is the last available-to-all milestone for the new suite, Microsoft's geared up to get the beta into the hands of a very large ...Read More
CEDAR CREEK, Tex. – As Sarah Palin launched her book tour Wednesday before the type of adulatory crowds she drew to GOP rallies last year, top Republicans here grappled with how to handle a figure as polarizing as she is ...Read More
London police arrested a couple on suspicion of spreading a malicious Trojan virus that is believed to have infected tens of thousands of computers around the world, officials said Wednesday.The Trojan, known as ZeuS or Zbot, is a sophisticated malware, ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Detectives have made the first arrests in Europe to tackle a "trojan" computer virus which is believed to have infected tens of thousands of computers across the world, London police said on Wednesday. The ZeuS or Zbot trojan, ...Read More
Afghanistan has slipped in corruption rankings
The problem of corruption in Afghanistan was highlighted recently when an international survey placed the country as the second most corrupt in the world.
The survey was carried out by Transparency International, an organisation that ...Read More
Three-quarters of universities in England have handed out emergency cash to students after severe delays to this year's loans and grants, a survey has found.
Tens of thousands of students are still waiting for their loans due to delays after the ...Read More
Mechanical pumps originally designed to supplement the pumping action of a failing heart and keep the patient alive until a transplant could be found have taken a major step toward becoming a permanent treatment -- a development that could expand ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
The five apparently include three death sentences announced ...Read More
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election. Opposition member Saimone Macuiana said Tuesday his Renamo party ...Read More
MAPUTO, Mozambique -Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election. Opposition member Saimone Macuiana said Tuesday his Renamo party does not ...Read More
