2009-11-27 12:13
Britain's top diplomat at the United Nations in the buildup to the 2003 Iraq war is giving evidence to the country's inquiry into the invasion.
2009-11-27 10:38
Israeli troops have foiled a suspected attempt to bomb the southern resort city of Eilat, an army spokesperson says.
2009-11-27 09:00
The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture centre has asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him.
2009-11-27 09:00
A Briton accused of hacking into US military and Nasa computers faces extradition to the US after the British government rejected requests to block the move.
2009-11-26 22:12
The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran's nuclear programme is at a dead end because Tehran is not co-operating, the UN nuclear watchdog's chief says.
2009-11-27 07:23
Iranians have chanted death to America and Israel as some 2.5 million Muslims, drying out after a day of torrential rains, continued their hajj pilgrimage.
2009-11-26 20:19
Nato will protect its member countries and populations with an anti-missile shield if Iran gets its hands on a nuclear bomb, says the alliance's secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
2009-11-26 20:19
The queen of England will continue to rule - formally at least - over the eastern Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
2009-11-26 21:02
A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed.
2009-11-26 17:44
Thailand has issued new rules making sex change surgery more difficult, including requiring potential candidates to cross-dress for a year, over fears that some patients are rushing into the operation.