Shops in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza have been told to dress their window mannequins to ensure lingerie is not on...

Jerusalem police have told deputy mayor Yitzhak Pindrus he will not be able to hold a so-called “donkey parade” alongside the annual Gay Pride Parade this...

Iran Thursday said it is ready to rethink its uranium enrichment to 20 percent level if it will be supplied with fuel for Tehran research...

Etihad Airways has, for the third consecutive time, passed a rigorous aviation industry safety...

The United Arab Emirates will develop comprehensive, professional and academic programmes for fighting sexual exploitation and abuse of...

His father may have been an officer in an elite Israeli combat unit who went on to become prime minister, but that was not enough to save corporal Yair Netanyahu when he turned up late for...

Britain's military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan brought the Army close to the point of "seizing up", a former head of the service has...

Worshippers at a mosque in a Saudi Arabian village near Mecca discovered they were praying for 10 years in the wrong direction, a newspaper in the country reported...

A musical play - 'Zayed and the Dream' - with performances by over 100 artistes from China, Spain, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be performed in London this...

Only 58 bodies of the 152 killed when an Airbus A-321 crashed in the Margalla Hills near this Pakistani capital have been identified, officials said Thursday, adding that DNA tests would be carried out on the...

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, November 2007 (Sean Gallup, Getty Images) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria on Thursday warned the United States to stop trying to interfere as Arab leaders try to...

Last Updated: July 29. 2010 9:23PM UAE / July 29. 2010 5:23PM GMT It will be quite a sight. When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Bashir Assad of Syria arrive in Beirut today, it will be a...

Last Updated: July 29. 2010 11:16PM UAE / July 29. 2010 7:16PM GMT TEL AVIV // The Arab League yesterday announced that it has agreed in principle for the Palestinians to restart direct negotiations...

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, right, yesterday met Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, in Sharm El Sheikh. Above, the leaders in Riyadh last...

The Obama administration is pushing China and other key nations to enforce tough international sanctions against Iran and to enact their own penalties.Senior U.S. officials said Thursday they would...

Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president's refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy U.S. pressure.The Arab foreign ministers endorsed the idea of direct...

BAGHDAD (AP): Militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country Thursday in a combination of shootings and roadside bombs that was a bitter demonstration of the dangers Iraqi...

CAIRO (AP): Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president's refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy US pressure. The Arab foreign ministers endorsed the...

ETS, the U.S.-based organization that administers the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and other exams, has said on its website that it is resuming registrations in...

Al-Qaeda briefly planted its flag in Baghdad as militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country. The worst attack came in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah when 16...

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of an attack on their checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Militants Thursday killed a number of Iraq's security forces with a combination...

Earlier this year, Congress went through the arduous task of coming up with new economic sanctions on Iran in an effort to discourage Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Separately, the United Nations...

CAIRO: Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president’s refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy US pressure. The Arab foreign ministers endorsed the...

WASHINGTON: Top US officials announced Thursday they were heading to China in late August to press Beijing to “step up” and fully implement sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday it was “saddened” by remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron that it was exporting terror, adding these did not reflect ground...

ISLAMABAD: Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, but recovery work was badly hampered by rain...

WASHINGTON: A US senator on Thursday pressed outgoing BP chief Tony Hayward and other witnesses who snubbed a congressional hearing into the Lockerbie bomber’s release to take lawmakers’...

SANAA: Shiite Zaidi rebels are to take part in a national dialogue between Yemen’s ruling party and the opposition aimed at easing tensions across the country, a ruling party member said on...

GAZA CITY: Thousands of kites filled the sky over Gaza on Thursday as children gathered to break their own Guinness World Record in an event organized by the UN agency for Palestinian...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli settlers backed by police took over a house in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City and briefly evicted a Palestinian family who have lived there for more than 70 years...

The lack of a government nearly five months on from parliamentary elections is “embarrassing” and is impeding any long-term decision-making, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP...

DUBAI: The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf said Thursday investigators now believe the ship was involved in a...

Legitimate debate is one thing. But reflexive bias against Israel means even basic security efforts to defend innocent civilians are criticized as violations of human...

Cairo: The Egyptian central bank held its benchmark interest rate at a four-year low for the seventh straight meeting after core inflation was almost unchanged. The Cairo-based bank kept its...

New York: JPMorgan Chase plans to become the first US bank to open a full-service commercial branch in Saudi Arabia this year, six years after Citigroup exited a venture in the world's biggest oil...

London: Petrofac on Thursday said it won a $400 million (Dh1.4 billion) contract from Kuwait Oil Company to design and install pipelines from the Mina Al Ahmadi port to power stations in the country....

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria and Saudi Arabia pledged on Thursday to work on stabilizing Lebanon and Syria advised the United States against interfering with Saudi King Abdullah's visit to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. officials said on Thursday they will travel to China in August to push Beijing to abide by international sanctions on...

David Miliband claims his brother Ed was in the same position over Iraq as all the other candidates save Diane Abbott. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty...

news archive ] in Iraq. Couso, a television cameraman, was killed in 2003 when a US tank fired into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The 3rd Division infantrymen named in the warrant, Sgt. Shawn...

B AGHDAD — Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood today after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a...

Shaikha Moza bint Nasser Al Misnad along with Shaikh Hamad's personal presenter Shaikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani and Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Energy Abdullah bin...

Digg Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Washington this week with the message that not even the far-reaching sanctions adopted by the U.S. and its allies against Iran are likely to change...

Iran will suspend uranium enrichment to 20 percent if it acquires nuclear fuel for a research reactor, the country's atomic chief said on an Iranian television channel yesterday."We will not need to...