Marc Bartra has opened up for the first time about the April 11 bomb attack which blasted the Borussia Dortmund team bus and left the defender with a fractured wrist. "There was a loud bang and I felt a warm wave of pressure, then a great pain in my arm," he told Sport Bild magazine...

A Bahraini court Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the main secular Waad opposition group and the seizure of its assets, Waad said on its Twitter account. The ruling is part of a wider crackdown by the Western-allied government that has included outlawing opposition groups, imprisoning...

( The Guardian )- A 12-year-old Victorian girl was killed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad on Tuesday as she lined up at a popular ice-cream parlour to break fast for Ramadan. The girl, a year seven student from Thomastown in Melbourne, was in the Iraqi capital with her family to visit her...

( Al-Jazeera )- When Mahmoud Nowar was released from detention, doctors told his father that he was so withered and malnourished that he would only have survived a few more days of starvation and torture at the hands of Syrian government forces. The pro-democracy activist and former resident...