While the international community battles over road maps, peace talks and cease fire plans, saying they are in touch with the Libyan government, one leader, Muammar Gaddafi seems blissfully unaware that he supposedly is on the brink of accepting a deal that will force him to step down from power.
According to BBC news, Somalia's al-Shabab Islamists have denied lifting their ban on Western aid agencies and say UN reports of famine are "sheer propaganda".The UN on Wednesday said that parts of Somalia were suffering a famine after the worst drought in 60 years, and millions of people are desperately trying to survive.
Hacker collectives LulzSec and Anonymous have sent a new message to the U.S. FBI after the law enforcement agency promised to increase the ferocity of its campaign against hacking.
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will continue to work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
A tweet posted by hacker collective LulzSec indicates that the group is delaying the release of the Sun newspaper's email database to ensure that it does not hamper the police's ongoing investigation of News International.
Beware, Superman, Batman or even Spiderman, Al Qaeda sympathisers are planning to produce a children's cartoon film to inspire young Muslim viewers to take up armed violence against the West, so Superjihadist might soon appear on the screens, security specialists who monitor militant websites say.
As the Muslim world prepares to enter Ramadan, it seems that Libya's rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within "days", indicating they are preparing for a pre-Ramadan offensive against Muammar Gaddafi' s forces.
The Somali president issued an urgent appeal for international aid as his drought-stricken country faces a famine that has left half of the population in dire need."The situation is very severe. The conditions are very harsh," President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed told CNN Wednesday during an exclusive interview at his residence in Mogadishu.
China says the Philippines infringed its sovereignty on Wednesday by sending a delegation of politicians to a disputed island in the South China Sea.Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said China had "indisputable sovereignty" over the island, in the Spratlys chain.
While the full moon has for long been a case of bloody tales and stories, forget about vampires or zombie attacks as a study recently published shows that predators, such as lions and maybe even wolves, are at their most dangerous when the moon starts to fade.
A wild leopard has mauled six people after it strayed into an Indian village in an attack that was caught on camera.The big feline first attacked a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village in West Bengal.
Thrust into the spotlight after she defended Rupert Murdoch from a shaving foam attack during the select committee hearing; is Wendi Deng more than just a loyal wife to the powerful media mogul?
The Libyan conflict is now being treated as a civil war, but while the Transitional National Council (TNC) is now recognised as the legitimate representative of the people of Libya by various international states including the U.K., France and most recently, the U.S., not much is known about who the Libyan people really support.
Thirteen people were killed in a powerful earthquake that hit Uzbekistan's heavily populated Ferghana Valley region early Wednesday, emergency officials said.A magnitude-6.2 quake in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan hit shortly after midnight in a mountainous area some 22 miles (35 kilometres) away from the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a population of more than 200,000.
Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Obama the all-time leading recipient, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation.
Although the Islamist group banned television during its time in power between 1996 and 2001, since being ousted of power by the U.S. after being accused of harbouring al Qaeda militants blamed for the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Islamist group has increasingly become aware of the necessity to use new technology and its communication tools now includes websites, mobile phone text messages, emails and posts on Twitter and Facebook.
Former tabloid editor Piers Morgan has demanded an apology from an MP who made claims about him admitting to phone hacking, at the London hearing on Tuesday which quizzed Rupert Murdoch.
Two members of Libya's rebel Transitional National Council are meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday amid international efforts to further support the Libyan opposition.
The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool, and Lower Shabelle," a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said.
President Obama today praised the much talked about proposal by the bipartisan "Gang of Six" to try and break the debt reduction deadlock with a plan to wipe $4 trillion off the ballooning national deficit.The group's ambitious new plan, offers a ray of hope in an increasingly grim standoff that has threatened the United States' top-notch credit rating, but while the president said the deal was a 'very significant step' he also warned that 'We are in the eleventh hour an...
President Alpha Condé escaped two attacks on his residence, it was reported on Tuesday.The assault that authorities linked to former senior officers in the army left at least three people dead.
Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands have arrested 20 suspected members of the hacker collective Anonymous.
President Obama's motorcade still owes outstanding congestion charges after the president's visit in May, officials said yesterday.
The Taliban on Wednesday said Mullah Omar was alive, accusing the Americans of hacking their phones after a text message sent to media from a spokesman's phone said the leader was dead.
After James Murdoch's performance at the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee yesterday afternoon, there has been some debate as to whether he performed well enough to save his career at News International.
A post on Microsoft's blog from Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Richard Boscovich has offered a $250,000 reward for information regarding the creators and operators of the Rustock botnet.
While its recently un-retired hacker colleague LulzSec rampage through News International's networks, Anonymous has taken the first steps to create a new social network for hackers.
During a climate change debate at the National Press Club in Canberra Australia, Lord Christopher Monckton argued that cutting emissions to curb global warming is like trying to "swat" an asteroid away with a cricket bat.
David Cameron will today admit that British aid money may have been wasted but that increasing the aid budget is still the right thing to do.
