A senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban has been captured by American military forces, a U.S. official said on Friday. Latif Mehsud was described by the State Department as a senior commander in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). “I can confirm that U.S. forces did capture......

Turkish TV presenter Gözde Kansu (pictured) has been dismissed after a spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party criticised her for wearing a low-cut top on television, saying he found her outfit “unacceptable”.   A Turkish TV presenter has...

There was a moment midway through Malala Yousafzai's much-watched interview on "The Daily Show" when host Jon Stewart announced, apparently spontaneously, and in words that seemed to channel how much of the West feels about this young Pakistani woman, "I want to adopt you." The comment captured...

The cucumbers at Haitham Mohammad’s stall used to travel a few miles to Damascus from the lush fields of Ghouta around the Syrian capital. They now get shipped from more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) away. The produce comes from the northern Aleppo Province after anti-government rebels...

Alice Munro , the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish...

  The U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try the alleged killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri said Thursday it had indicted a fifth suspect connected with the 2005 Beirut bombing .   A pre-trial judge confirmed the...

  It will be Morsi's first court appearance since his July 3 ouster by the military following massive and well-coordinated protests against his presidency .   The son of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi blasted an announcement by...

There is no difference between the post-coup interim govenment and Mubarak-era Egypt, said the Secretary General of German Amnesty International. The interim government in Egypt will destroy the Muslim Brotherhood," Secretary General of German Amnesty International Selmin...

 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the scientists' research in the...

  Turkey has frozen the accounts of people and organizations linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, in compliance with a decision by the United Nations’ Security Council. The Ministerial Cabinet decided to freeze the accounts of 219 people and 63 organizations linked...

Pakistani teenage activist shot last year by Taliban is awarded EU prize for fighting for girls' rights to education. Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament's...

An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers. The dissident National Council of Resistance...

  Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed by former rebels who seized him from a hotel earlier on Thursday, the state news agency reported.  Zeidan was seized by former rebels and was held at the ministry’s anti-crime department, according to Reuters. The...

The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation's first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil. While the...

 When Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, made no annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last week for the first time ever, his unspoken message could hardly have been louder. For most countries, refusing to give a scheduled speech would count...

Deposed president to stand trial on November 4 with 14 others over killings of protesters outside his palace last year. The trial of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the murder of protesters will start on November 4, the official MENA news agency...

 Syria National Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba said Iran has occupied Syria. “Iran must not have the role of the middle in the Syria talks because it has occupied Syria,” he said. The SNC has also called on the Lebanese Hezbollah to evacuate Syrian soil. Al-Jarba...

Saudi Arabia preacher Fayhan Al Gamdi gets 8 years, 800 lashes for torturing daughter to death A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a father who had tortured his five-year-old daughter to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes. The court in Hawtat Bani Tamim, 160...

Islanders on Europe's southern edge have become used to tragedy and trauma, they see it every day in the thousands of asylum seekers who land on their shores -- and they say they have had enough. The locals of the remote fishing community on Lampedusa island rush to help every time but their...

Israel and Iran are once again not seeing eye to eye, but this time it’s over something fairly unusual: Iran’s clothing choices . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proved how out of touch he is with Iranian society when he intimated in his first interview with BBC...