Five civilians were killed and more than a dozen others reportedly injured in crossfire after a gunbattle erupted between British soldiers and insurgents who set a fire in a market today, Iraqi police said.
The Birtish government today gave a cautious reaction to the suicides of three detainees at the Guantanomo Bay camp in Cuba, but one former inmate said he was not surprised at the deaths.
Malaysia's defense minister today proposed a regional humanitarian relief center as part of an Asian "security village," while his Australian counterpart warned that East Timor could become a haven for terrorists if the nation slides into civil war.
The Danish parliament yesterday unanimously voted in favor of a new royal succession law that would allow a first-born child to one day ascend the throne regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl.
The Palestinian Authority vowed today that civil servants will finally receive their back salaries early next week amid growing discontent after four months without pay and successive dalays.
Thousands of Tibetan exiles, among them saffron-robed monks and nuns, lined up in this north Indian hill station on Saturday to cast their votes for a de facto prime minister.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, "blocked" an Anglo-American proposal to settle the Kashmir dispute in 1963 as Pakistan received the draft before India did due to a bureaucratic mix-up, according to a new US study.
Gunmen killed the son of Iraq's top judge Saturday as the country's prime minister-designate struggled to form a national unity government that could eventually open the way to stability.
President Bush plans to address the nation Monday night on the immigration debate, trying to build momentum for legislation that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens.
