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Hussein Shafei prepared Saturday for a journey back to a place of darkness in Libya. Soon, he plans to stand again in Cell 14, Block 2 at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. Only this time, the metal door will not slam behind him, caging him in a bathroom-size cell. He will be a free […]

Al-Qaeda’s number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has been killed in Pakistan, the United States said on Saturday, claiming another “tremendous” blow to the group following the death of Osama bin Laden. News of Rahman’s demise comes as the US gears up to mark the 10th anniversary of al-Qaeda’s most spectacular attack, on September 11, 2001 […]

Apple’s legendary co-founder and top ideas man Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive Wednesday in a move long expected after he began a dramatic fight with cancer. In a written statement, Apple, the world’s second most valuable company by market capitalization, announced that chief operating officer Tim Cook would replace Jobs as CEO, and said […]

A Malaysian woman has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping her husband’s mistress for several days and forcing him to listen by phone while his lover was tortured and beaten, police said on Wednesday. The enraged wife was arrested on Tuesday in a suburb of the capital Kuala Lumpur, after her husband filed a police report, […]

Rebels fought gun battles in Tripoli with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday as they hunted for his relatives and supporters, Reuters witnesses and an Arab television station said. A Reuters correspondent said bursts of gunfire rang out near the Corinthia Hotel in central Tripoli late on Wednesday and a column of smoke rose from […]

Prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss all the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against former IMF chief and one-time French presidential favorite Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A judge was expected to accept the dismissal of recommendation at a hearing on Tuesday, bringing to an end the three-month-long criminal case against Strauss-Kahn that has humiliated the French […]

AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri, who took dramatic images of Thai ‘Red Shirt’ protesters confronting security forces, was among leading winners of the first Yonhap International Press Awards presented in New York on Monday. Mr Asfouri, AFP’s senior photographer in Bangkok, won the US$5,000 gold prize in the Enhancement of International Peace category of the awards […]

Fade Sarkis, a Christian who fled Iraq after receiving death threats, says he has finally found a sense of safety in Roman Catholic youth festivities in Madrid. ‘I am very, very happy here. I have never seen so many Christians in one place,’ he said as lounged on the grass of Madrid’s central Retiro park […]

Attorneys for Michael Jackson’s former physician Conrad Murray, on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop icon, want a sequestered jury during Conrad’s trial, court papers showed on Friday. ‘There is reasonable expectation that Dr Murray’s trial will be the most publicised in history,’ wrote the doctor’s attorneys in court papers given […]

A British scientist claims Allied spies considered spiking Adolf Hitler’s food with female hormones in a bid to make him less aggressive. The plan to sneak oestrogen into the Nazi leader’s food never went beyond the planning phase. It is one of several hare-brained schemes revealed by Professor Brian Ford in his book, Secret Weapons: […]