Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Kills Worshippers

A suicide bomber has attacked a mosque in Afghanistan as people gathered to celebrate the Eid al Adha holiday. Between 36 and 41 people, including at least five children, died in the attack in the town of Maymana, capital of northern Faryab province....

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Syria: Deadly Car Bomb Attack In Capital

At least five people have been killed and 32 wounded in a car bombing in southern Damascus, according to Syrian state television. The blast in the capital comes on the first day of a ceasefire brokered by UN and Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi....

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Berlusconi Sentenced To Four Years In Jail

Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud connected to his television channels. An Italian court delivered the verdict against the ex-leader and 10 others in a six-year-old tax fraud trial. Lawyers...

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Hurricane Sandy: US Braces After 11 Die In Cuba

Hurricane Sandy has killed 11 people in Cuba and is now expected to batter the east coast of the US – after lashing the Bahamas. Cuban state media announced that a four-month-old boy, who was crushed when his home collapsed, was among the dead as the...

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Syria: Four-Day Ceasefire Begins For Eid

A ceasefire is under way in Syria after the army and the main rebel force agreed to stop fighting for the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. The country was calm in the early hours of Friday morning, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory...

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British Oil Executive Gunned Down In Brussels

A British oil executive - named by Sky sources as Nicholas Mockford - has been shot dead in Brussels. The killing took place on October 14 but Belgian investigators have only just revealed information about his death. Mr Mockford, who worked for ExxonMobil,...

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Obama 'Bubble' Confident On Home Straight

US President Barack Obama has launched an unprecedented campaign blitz through eight states in 39 hours in his bid to secure a second term in the White House. Mr Obama is travelling more than 6,000 miles across four time zones in what he has described...

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Hurricane Sandy Hits Cuba After Lashing Jamaica

Hurricane Sandy tore down power lines and trees as it pounded Jamaica, before heading for Cuba and the Bahamas. The storm had developed from a Category One to Category Two hurricane when it made landfall just west of Santiago de Cuba with maximum sustained...

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Malala Shooting: Police Name Prime Suspect

Police have named the prime suspect in connection with the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist who spoke out against the Taliban. Detectives are attempting to track down 23-year-old Atta Ullah Khan, a chemistry student from the Swat district...

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Mining Firm Sacks 8,500 Striking Workers

The mining firm Gold Fields has fired 8,500 miners amid the bitter disputes crippling the industry in South Africa. The company, the world's fourth-largest bullion producer, said it had carried out its threat against strikers at its KDC East mine after...

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Obama Aggressive In Final Presidential Debate

Romney Avoids Foreign Policy Blow Updated: 10:35am UK, Tuesday 23 October 2012 By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent This was always going to be a tough one for Mitt Romney. The Republican challenger has not distinguished himself on foreign policy. ...

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Woman 'Set Herself On Fire In Staged KKK Attack'

A woman who told police she had been subjected to a racist attack in which three men set her alight and scrawled KKK on her car was lying, according to US investigators. "The wounds were self-inflicted," said Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI's...

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Obama Aggressive In Final Presidential Debate

Romney Avoids Foreign Policy Blow Updated: 5:37am UK, Tuesday 23 October 2012 By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent This was always going to be a tough one for Mitt Romney. The Republican challenger has not distinguished himself on foreign policy. ...

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Woman Set On Fire In 'Ku Klux Klan' Attack

A Louisiana woman found with burns over more than half her body says she was set on fire in a racist attack. The 20-year-old black woman told police that three men also wrote the initials KKK - an apparent reference to the Ku Klux Klan - and a racial...

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Taiwan Nursing Home Fire: 12 Dead

At least 12 people have been killed and 60 wounded in a fire at a nursing home in southern Taiwan. The fire started in the early hours in a nursing facility housing mainly bed-bound patients in Tainan city. An earlier official estimate had reported...

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Beirut Protests: Tense Stand-Off In Lebanon

Police in Beirut have fired warning shots and thrown tear gas at hundreds of angry protesters attempting to storm the Prime Minister's office in Beirut. Clashes erupted during the funeral for top intelligence chief Brigadier General Wissam al Hassan,...

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Wisconsin Spa Shooting: Suspect Haughton Dead

The suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and four injured at the spa where his wife worked has been found dead at the scene in Wisconsin. Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer in Wisconsin, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound....

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'Al Qaeda Terror Plot' Foiled By Jordan

Jordanian authorities have foiled an al Qaeda plot targeting shopping malls and Western diplomats, according to reports. Sameeh Maaytah, a spokesman for the Jordanian government, said 11 suspected militants were in police custody. State news agency...

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Israel Diverts Activists' Ship Away From Gaza

Israel has stopped a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists from breaking the naval blockade on Gaza. Israeli naval commandos boarded the vessel in international waters after the passengers' "unwillingness to co-operate" and they "ignored calls to...

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Confusion Over Gaddafi Ex-Spokesman's Capture

Confusion is growing over the fate of Muammar Gaddafi's former spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, who has been reportedly captured - exactly a year after the death of the Libyan dictator. Conflicting reports surround his whereabouts after an audio tape has surfaced...

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Beirut Bomb Blast: Call For Demo At Funeral

Lebanon's opposition has called for an anti-Syria demonstration at this afternoon's funeral of a security chief killed in a car bombing blamed on the regime in Damascus. General Wissam al Hassan, a prominent figure opposed to President Bashar al Assad,...

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