Fulham's Brede Hangeland celebrates his late equaliser against Manchester United at Craven Cottage. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters
A weekend of capering wins for Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle United ended with a reminder that the Premier League is still a place of gripping struggle. Fulham seized a 2-2 draw in the 90th minute when the centre-half. . . .
Armed men claiming to be al-Qaida members address a crowd in Yemen's southern Abyan province. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
The market at Jaar, a small city in Abyan province in southern Yemen, is on a filthy, dusty road strewn with garbage, plastic bottles, cans and rotten food. Plastic bags fly on the hot wind and feral dogs sniff around the vegetable stalls. Minibuses and donkey carts jostle for . . . .
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard: 'It is clear neither party has earned the right to government in its own right'. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features Australia faces days of uncertainty and political horse-trading after prime minister Julia Gillard acknowledged that neither the ruling Labor party nor the opposition conservative coalition had . . . .
Oil pipelines in Okrika, near Port Harcourt. The UNEP denies it has been influenced by Shell, which paid for its $10m, three-year study. Photograph: Ed Kashi
A three-year investigation by the United Nations will almost entirely exonerate Royal Dutch Shell for 40 years of oil pollution in the Niger delta, causing outrage among communities who . . .
British, Irish and Iraqi citizen Margaret Hassan was kidnapped and murdered by a Sunni group in 2004. Photograph: Care/AP
An Iraqi convicted of the 2004 kidnapping and murder of the British aid worker Margaret Hassan escaped from jail nearly a year ago, it was revealed today.
Ali Lutfi Jassar, who was serving . . .
President Cristina Kirchner’s administration won plaudits last month when Argentina became Latin America’s first country to legalise gay marriage, but critics say pressure from the Catholic church and conservative groups continues to curb reproductive rights. Photograph: Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of girls and women in Argentina . . . .
Rewa's Kelepi Qaqa and Navua's Adam Dickinson tussle for possession as Posiano Kalisito looks on during yesterday's BOG final at Prince Charles Park in Nadi.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducts his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Mr. Netanyahuspelled out his opening position for the new round of Mideast peace talks set to begin next week, insisting on key security conditions and saying an agreement . . . . .." (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)
This photo, released on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, reportedly shows the launch at an undisclosed location of the Karrar drone aircraft, which Iran says is the country's first domestically built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called it an. . . .(AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei)
Al-Qaeda is readying to exploit a possible war between Israel and Iran, according to the group’s second in command leader.
Yemen-based Saeed al-Shehri has predicted in a message to the Middle Eastern press that a war by "the Jews against Iran" will lead to Iran blaming Saudi Arabia.
He said Iran would blame the Saudis because of an agreement to between. . ..
President Lee Myung-bak, left, shakes hands with former Grand National Party Chairwoman Park Geun-hye during their luncheon meeting at Cheong Wa Dae, Saturday. / Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae
One-on-one meeting held Saturday over luncheon
By Na Jeong-ju
President Lee Myung-bak and former ruling Grand National Party (GNP) Chairwoman Rep. Park Geun-hye met on Saturday at Cheong Wa Dae to discuss . . . .
Australians chose between making a conservative male their fourth prime minister in three years or sticking with their first female leader in tight elections yesterday just two months after she took power. In early counting, the Australian Electoral Commission said the governing center-left Labor Party was . . . .
BAGHDAD - Young men from some of Iraq's poorest areas waited all night outside an army recruitment centre, only to become easy prey for a suicide bomber who killed 61 in the crowd. Desperate for jobs, dazed survivors rushed to. . .
SAN FRANCISCO - An American Airlines flight bound for New York City was halted just before takeoff after someone called police and threatened to hijack the jetliner, authorities said.
SPAIN: Officials in Barcelona are considering penalising Colombian singer Shakira for acts she committed while filming a video clip to promote her new record in the city.
Press and internet images have shown Shakira sitting on the back of a motorcycle with her hair flowing in the wind, while she should have worn a helmet, the sources said.
Some flights between Sydney and Canberra have been cancelled after Qantas grounded five Bombardier Q400 aircraft due to landing gear problems.
The aircraft, operated by the
Roads along the Yalu River in Dandong, northeast China. Photo / AP
Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks.
More rain was expected to pound the region, which borders North Korea, and threatened to trigger more flooding Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Chinese permanent representative to the United Nations Li Baodong speaks at the plenary General Assembly session on flood-devastated Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Aug. 20, 2010. China on Friday announced its decision to provide an additional 50 million RMB yuan (about 7.37 million U.S. dollars) worth of humanitarian supplies to the Pakistani government as "the latest developments suggest . . . . .
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of hostages taken by armed gangsters at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro Saturday morning were freed, police said.The incident took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in the high-class Sao Conrado neighborhood of southern Rio de Janeiro, the website of local newspaper O Globo reported.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Capturing or killing al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden is still a priority for the United States, David Petraeus, the general who commands all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying Sunday.
Talking to NBC's "Meet the Press," Petraeus said bin Laden "remains an iconic figure and I think capturing or killing is still a very, very important task for. . . .
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro (1st, R) welcomes his Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Aug. 20, 2010. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin (L, Front)inaugurated the commissions on debt payment and trade, economy, social investment work plan at the border zone, joint development of infrastructure and security on Friday. (Xinhua/Hernandez)
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the Iftar dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington August 13, 2010. The Iftar dinner celebrates the evening breaking of fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
DANDONG, Liaoning, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Danger of a flooding Yalu River on the border of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) still looms large as a new round of rainstorm is forecast to pelt Sunday the river basin.
The flood-control headquarters in northeast Dandong City Sunday said although the river's flow was at 8,000 cubic meters per second Sunday morning, down from a daily high of ......
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MANILA, Philippines - Venus Raj, the country's representative to this year's Miss Universe pageant, said she is more determined to win the crown after hearing about the passing of her fellow beauty titlist, Melody Gersbach.
"I'm sure gugustuhin ni Melody (Gersbach) na ituloy ko ito...I'm dedicating this Miss Universe to her," a visibly saddened Raj said.
MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak has called for an investigation by the Penang Islamic Religious Council and police on allegations that the name of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was cited instead of the Yang di-Pertuan Agongs during Friday prayers in several mosques in Penang.
People displaced from floods queue to receive donated food at a tent camp in Sukkur, in Sindh province, Pakistan, yesterday.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
WITH entire towns and villages swallowed up by Pakistan's devastating floods, experts say it could take years to solve a shelter crisis now facing up to six million people camped out under open skies.
Quratul-Ain Bandial and Koo Jin Shen
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
Sunday, August 22, 2010
15 students sent for mandatory treatment
A TOTAL of 15 students under the age of 18 had been caught smoking in public this year and ordered to undergo mandatory treatment at a smoking cessation clinic. This was disclosed during yesterday's briefing on the hazards of smoking for
Pehin Dato Hj Hazair (L), Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, presenting the donation to the orphans yesterday at UBD's Chancellor Hall. Picture: BT/Zamri Zainal
Rasidah HAB BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
Sunday, August 22, 2010
HAITI'S provisional electoral council ruled on Friday that hip-hop star Wyclef Jean did not meet a residency requirement to run as a presidential candidate in the nation's November 28 election.
Singer-songwriter Jean, 40, an international celebrity who is popular in his impoverished and earthquake-ravaged homeland, was rejected from the list of approved candidates read aloud by the council on Friday night.
Les indicateurs économiques sont au beau fixe, mais les législatives de samedi s'annoncent très serrées.Vu d'Europe, on peut se demander comment les deux principaux candidats au poste de premier ministre d'Australie peuvent bien se différencier. Que proposer d'autre aux 14 millions d'électeurs, lors. . . .
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, was forced to flee Iran after the authorities became determined to silence him. Speaking to SPIEGEL from his exile in Norway, he talked of his plans to continue the fight to save Ashtiani. By Dieter Bednarz in Oslo more...
Alexander Lukashenko is regarded as Europe's last dictator, but after more than 16 years in power his days as Belarusian president may be numbered. As presidential elections approach, Russia seems to be determined to see the back of Lukashenko. By Benjamin Bidder in Moscow more...
While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing. By Thomas Schulz
Has American credibility been severely damaged by the Iraq War? One day after the last US combat unit left the country, some in the German press say that it has. Commentators are pessimistic about Iraq's ability to cope alone. more...
In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass talks about why he doesn't fear death, the missed opportunities of German reunification and why he thinks the Brothers Grimm had "oral sex with vowels." more...
Some 70 years ago, Hitler's Wehrmacht was chalking up one victory after the next, but then Winston Churchill stood up to the dictator. Their duel decided World War II. The former British prime minister has been viewed as one of the . . . .