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October 5, 2009 7:53 PM
The new UK Supreme Court has begun hearing its first case as five men suspected of financing terrorism challenge the freezing of their assets. The suspects - who cannot be named for legal reasons - claim the measure is unfair and breaches their human rights. The case was chosen as it deals with huma...
October 5, 2009 7:52 PM
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According to reports, situation near Old City of Jerusalem is tense after sporadic clashes with Palestinian worshippers around the al-Aqsa mosque compound. Israel has deployed large numbers of police officers in the area. An Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told media that Muslim men under t...
October 5, 2009 7:52 PM
The United Nations says Norway is the best place in the world to live while Niger is the least desirable. In its annual report, the 182 countries were ranked according to the quality of life their citizens experienced. Criteria examined included life expectancy, literacy rates, school enrolment and ...
October 5, 2009 6:28 PM
South Africa's former chief of police Jackie Selebi pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption trial in Johannesburg. Mr. Selebi was South Africa's first black police chief. Mr. Selebi resigned as head of Interpol after he was charged with having links to organized crime and accepting bri...
October 5, 2009 5:17 PM
In Pakistan, at least four people, including an Iraqi national and two women, were killed and six injured today when a suicide bomber struck at the UN food agency's office Islamabad. Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters that the bomber, who was disguised as paramilitary Frontier Corps ...
October 5, 2009 2:50 PM
An international team of Scientists have revealed that Antarctica went through a heat wave nearly 15.7 million years ago during which plants and algae were abundant. The team led by LSU Museum of Natural Science in Washington said, it has found evidence of the warm period in Antarctica that lasted f...
October 5, 2009 2:22 PM
Today is the world habitat day.According to the United Nations, more than 100 million people in the world today are homeless. Millions more face a severe housing problem living without adequate sanitation, with irregular or no electricity supply and without adequate security. One out of every three ...
October 5, 2009 12:17 PM
Agriculture and farming ministers from across Europe are to gather in Brussels for a special meeting on what some call a crisis in dairy production.<br/> <br/>For weeks now farmers around the EU have been dumping millions of gallons of milk and withholding supplies. They are prot...
October 5, 2009 11:39 AM
In Thailand, a passenger train bound for Bangkok has derailed at Hua Hin coastal resort district, killing at least seven people and injuring forty-five.<br/> <br/>At least six of the train's 16 carriages went off the tracks amid torrential downpours. The overnight train was ...
October 5, 2009 5:36 AM
The former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged politicians in Kenya to speed up much needed reforms that were promised after post election violence there in early 2008. He was speaking at the start of a three day visit to Kenya. Kofi Annon made it clear that so far the pace of reforms has been...
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