British Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by his foreign minister, paid a visit on Sept. 15 to Tripoli, the recently liberated capital of Libya. This was the first visit there by the head of state of a key European country since the deposition of former Libyan President Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
The Labour party conference 2011, second in the series of the UK's major parties' self-review, was a real sandwich between the preceding one of LibDems and the succeeding ones of Tories coming next week.
As high profile Al-Qaeda leader Awlaki was killed in a strike on his convoy directed by the CIA and carried out with the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command's firepower, Obama it seems wants to prove he is in control when it comes to the war against terror, leaving little room for the republicans to attack him on the subject during the next presidential campaign.
The news that Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, courtesy of a U.S. drone attack, must surely round off a pretty poor week in an even worse year for the followers of Al-Qaeda.
Heavy fighting broke out Friday close to Somalia's border with Kenya as extremist al Shabaab fighters launched an early attack on the town of Dhobley before being forced to withdraw, according to reports.
Unconfirmed reports that Ibrahim was dressed as a woman as he attempted to flee Sirte, where the NTC fighters are currently fighting pro-Gaddafi forces emerged just after Mustafa bin Dardef a commander for the NTC's Zintan brigade said: "Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Mussa Ibrahim has been captured."
Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing the death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity might be liberated after his lawyer told AFP on Thursday he is "optimistic" that the final verdict could see his client set free.
The U.S.-born radical Islamist cleric and accused al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, wanted by both the CIA and the Yemeni authorities, has been killed in Yemen, the country's Defense Ministry announced Friday.
The BBC have apologised to the EU after Daily Telegraph columnist, Peter Oborne repeatedly called an EU representative an idiot.
A Canadian advisory panel on business and the environment is warning that greenhouse gas emissions could cost the Canadian economy up to $43 billion each year by 2050 if the government does not come up with a domestic plan to tackle global warming.
In a move designed to provide relief to the eight-million households whose garbage bins are only being emptied fortnightly, Councils will be offered £250 million to reinstate the weekly rubbish collections.
Three teenage girls were wounded, one critically, by a drive-by shooting in West London Thursday night.
Typhoon Nesat has hit the southern Chinese island of Hainan, forcing 100,000 people to evacuate out of their premises after sweeping past Hong Kong and battering the Philippines causing 35 deaths.
With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back on the main international agenda, the role of the UN quartet charged of facilitating peace in the Middle East by the UN and more specifically of Tony Blair has also been put on the spotlight.
Saudi Arabia plans to spend over $100 billion to build 16 nuclear reactors in an effort to meet its growing domestic energy needs, the kingdom's former Saudi intelligence chief and former ambassador to Washington said in a recent speech.
While the situation in Libya is still far from stable as the National Transitional Council forces are still fighting pro-Gaddafi forces and the new government struggles to implement the transitional plan regulating the transitional phase, emerging political voices are starting to surface. For example include the Berbers, who after fighting with the NTC now want to be assured more political space in the 'new' Libya.
Amid international outrage, King Abdullah of Saudi has decided to revoke a sentence condemning a Saudi woman to be lashed 10 times for defying the country's ban on female drivers.
One of the reasons why Chris Christie is becoming the new Republican darling is his willingness to talk about foreign policy and to bring about the subject of American exceptionalism.
The wife of a MP John Hemming said today that she had 'no recollection' of stealing a kitten from of her husband's mistress.
While officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) have now said that fugitive former leader Moammar Gaddafi could be hiding in the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border, the Colonel has turned to a jihadist rhetoric calling his supporters to sacrifice themselves.
Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the Algerian border in the town of Ghadamis, according to the Libyan official leading the hunt for the former Libyan dictator.
Rihanna's newly filmed dance video in an area of Belfast has been criticized by the lands owner over its inappropriate nudity.
Just two days after Saudi King Abdullah's announced that Saudi women would be allowed to participate in elections, two Saudi women were punished for breaking the ban on female driving with one being sentenced to 10 lashes by a court in Jeddah while another was detained in Riyadh, leading rights activists to question the King's apparent new reformist tendencies.
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the county's ban on female drivers, according to Amnesty International.
While Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a return to negotiation to try and prevent the Palestinian statehood bid from seeing light, recent settlements development prove that if peace will not come out of the UN it is even more unlikely to come from peace talks.
Reports that Syrian Christians are throwing their support behind President Bashar al-Assad, despite months of a brutal crackdown on civilians protesters that call for an end to the regime, have emerged since the beginning of the uprising.
Britney Spears newly filmed pop video in an area of London plagued by riots has been criticized over its inappropriate depiction of violence.
One of James Murdoch's closest advisors has resigned from News Corporation over the way the media group dealt with the phone-hacking scandal.
The trial into the death of Michael Jackson began September 27, with his recent doctor Conrad Murray due to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter.
Defence company BAE has finally confirmed its plans to cut over 3,000 jobs across the UK, with most of the cuts occurring in the military aircraft division.
