Nato warplanes resumed daytime strikes on targets in the Libyan capital Wednesday despite alliance member Italy calling for the "immediate suspension" of hostilities in the North African nation.
Dozens of militants, many of them suspected al Qaeda members, have today escaped a Yemeni prison located in the south-eastern province of Hadramout, by using a tunnel they dug over the past months in what appeared to be a brazen, coordinated jailbreak, according to reports.
Transocean ltd, the owners of the deep water horizon drilling rig that was destroyed by the explosion before the initial Gulf of Mexico oil spill has claimed that the full responsibility for the disaster should be placed on BP's shoulders.
Two years after Neda Agha-Soltan was killed governments in the Middle East are still using brutality, lies and live ammunition to suppress street protests.
First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS while using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to try and motivate youth across the continent.
Since suspected LulzSec member Ryan Cleary's arrest the hacker collective has been uncharacteristically quiet and moody, even going so far as to release the names and addresses of two hackers it suspects of leaking its private chat logs to the police.
When the US and Nato invaded Afghanistan in 2001 two reasons were widely advanced. One, the Taliban needed to surrender Bin Laden, and two, the US could not let the Islamist movement treat women so barbarically.
s there a new wave of sectarian violence sweeping the streets of Belfast or is it simply a common problem that only now has been reported on?
The suspected LulzSec member Ryan Cleary, if found to have taken part in LulzSec's attacks on the U.S., could face up to ten years in jail.
US President Barack Obama is expected to use a prime-time TV address to unveil plans for an initial withdrawal of thousands of US troops from Afghanistan.
Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton closer to romance as Royal couple’s Canadian itinerary is confirmed.
The hacker collective LulzSec has posted the names, addresses of two hackers suspected of leaking its chat logs.
Four months into the conflict and while the battle for Libya is still going strong, various conspiracy theories have by now emerged. After Gaddafi's own theory of Al-Qaeda putting drugs in the people's Nescafe flopped, the idea that Libya could in fact be the theatre for a new cold war attracted quite a lot of attention.
Hacker collective LulzSec has denied the authenticity of a previous statement posted online claiming that it had had stolen and planned to release the U.K. census data.
Hacking collective LulzSec's day of celebration, hacking the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crimes Agency and census databases, has been soured as news comes that the Metropolitan Police have arrested a suspected member of the collective.
London's Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit has arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of involvement in LulzSec's recent distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crimes Agency's website.
The Greek economic crisis may affect the Eurozone first, with France and Germany set to lose a vast amount of money if Greece defaults, but there will be considerable damage done to the United Kingdom as well.
Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a general amnesty on Tuesday, a day after his address to the Syrian nation, in which he promised wide-ranging but vague reforms to counter a three-month popular revolt against his autocratic rule.
Over the last month the Nato-led operation in Libya has been attacked from all parts. While the rebel fighters have reproached the Alliance lack of support on the ground coupled with weak organizational and operational skills and abilities, political figures have also come out and directly attacked the organisation.
A Tunisian court sentenced the country's ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, to 35 years in prison and a fine of roughly $66 million after a trial in absentia for embezzlement and misuse of public funds, state news media said Monday night.
Just as the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous begin Operation Anti-Security against the world's governments and banks, new E.U. laws are set to force banks to warn customers when their personal information has been compromised.
The aircraft, carrying 43 passengers and nine crew members, crashed on its final approach to an airport in the city of Petrozavodsk in Russia.
The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs.
Tunisia's ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali said he was tricked into leaving his country for Saudi Arabia, as Tunisia begins to try him in absentia in the first of what are expected to be multiple trials related to his years in power.
The hacker collectives LulzSec and Anonymous this weekend announced a new combined campaign against the world's governments codenamed Operation Anti-Security, quashing earlier reports that the two were on the brink of war with each other.
In a statement released over the weekend the hacker collective LulzSec has promised to unite with its 4Chan-born brother Anonymous in a new cyber campaign against the world's governments.
As anti-government feeling in Syria refuses to quiet down, in his latest speech following three months of unrest, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday he would form a committee to study reforming Syria's constitution, claiming it would make recommendations within a month.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has voted to allow the creation new website domain suffixes.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said publicly for the first time on Saturday that the United States and the Nato-led coalition have been actively negotiating with the Taliban, an assertion that was yesterday confirmed by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
Palestinian officials say a high-profile meeting between the leaders of the rival Fatah and Hamas movements has been called off and postponed indefinitely.
