PARIS: A Frenchwoman who wears an Islamic face veil, flouting a nationwide ban, announced on Thursday she wants to run for president in next year's elections....

RABAT: After the revolutions, it is elections. The celebrations have barely abated over the scalps of such invincible strongmen as Muammar Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak that key voices....

LONDON: A long-awaited memoir by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally being published - without his approval...

WASHINGTON: A three and half hour tutorial for Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar. Four hours of talks with the military-dominated country's obdurate army chief Pervez Ashfaq ...

NAIROBI: A typical prize for a children's contest might be a backpack, a lunchbox or maybe some toys. But not in Somalia....

KABUL: The head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, former

COLOMBO: Post-war Sri Lanka will need another decade to clear the half million landmines which lie

KARACHI: A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives on Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said that the military is adequately prepared for the official lifting of the legal ban on gays serving openly on Tuesday....

WELLINGTON: It was enough to spark a major security scare: A man posing as a pilot tried to gain access to a restricted part of an international airport and then escaped when questioned....