POLITICS

Four blasts rock eastern Ukraine city of Dnipropetrovsk at six weeks from the Uefa Euro 2012 Championship.

Missiles using solid propellants, like the Agni 5, have an edge over Chinese missiles which use liquid propellants.

Islamist terrorist sect Boko Haram claims responsibility for suicide bombings on three Nigerian newspapers

North Korea's resources have dried up because of international sanctions and cessation of arms exports.

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is facing renewed calls for an inquiry into his behaviour during News Corporation's bid to takeover BSkyB.

Under the Okinawa deal, the US will pull out 9,000 marines.

French drugmaker posts solid Q1 on Genzyme sales boost but says generic competition will hit bottom line

Osama bin Laden's widows and children put on chartered flight to Saudi Arabia.

Murdoch indicates involvement of chief lawyer of the organisation Tom Crone and its last editor Colin Myler.

Two new laws allowing men to have sex with dead wives and lowering the age of marriage to 14 have provoked uproar in Egypt.

Laxmi Sargara sought to have marriage annulled after discovering she was married at age of one.

Bombers target media outfits in capital of Abuja and northern city of Kaduna, killing 8 people.

Iran is a nation that is often said to be run by theocratic lunatics who want to "wipe Israel off the map" and deny the Holocaust but for once someone has spoken some words of sense about the Islamic Republic - a Lt. General from Israel of all people.

A video has gone viral on social media allegedly showing a man being buried alive by Assad's forces, he was accused of sending secret material to TV stations Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.

Special Court for Sierra Leone has found Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during civil war that wracked country.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of 'aiding and abetting' war crimes at Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

Government in Manama dismisses rumours activist missing from hospital bed three months into hunger strike.

Hansard Society's audit says only less than half of the population 41 per cent is interested in politics.

As Liberia's Charles Taylor considers his conviction, IBTimes UK traces background of the man who rose from political activist to warlord to president.

Media mogul quizzed on tabloid phone hacking and competition on second day of press ethics grilling.

Rupert Murdoch claim at press ethics inquiry rubbished by former prime minister.

Alain Juppe says UN-brokered ceasefire has failed to halt violence in Syria and wants to move on to 'next step'.

PM escapes jail sentence for failure to reopen corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Iran is considering a Russian proposal to halt nuclear programme to avoid EU sanctions.

China shows support for South Sudan as the latter's president visits Beijing to court Chinese leaders. Behind the relationship, a lot of oil exports to China are at stake.

Animal, mineral or vegetable: 450-million-year-old Kentucky fossil sparks debate among scientists.

Activists fear for life of hunger striker Abdullhadi al-Khawaja after mystery disappearance.

UN-African Union peacekeeper and 16 civilians killed in separate attacks in disputed area.

Court overrules wishes of dictator's family in fight to fund compensation for Pinochet victims.