Volcanic ash disrupts NZ airline flights

2011-06-12 10:45:02

Some airline flights to and from New Zealand have been canceled as volcanic ash from Chile's erupting Cordon Caulle volcano spreads.

Chavez recovering, in good shape after surgery

2011-06-12 09:53:32

A Venezuelan vice president says President Hugo Chavez is recovering well a day after undergoing surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess.

Mastermind of '98 US embassies bombings killed

2011-06-12 07:16:59

The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Somalia.

Yemen says military kills 21 al-Qaida members

2011-06-11 21:17:03

Yemen's Defence Ministry said the military had killed 21 al-Qaida "terrorists" on Saturday in the southern Abyan province, whose capital, Zinjibar was seized by Islamist militants last month.

$12m ransom paid, Kuwaiti oil tanker's released

2011-06-11 19:39:55

Somali pirates say they freed a UAE-flagged, Kuwaiti-owned oil tanker after a $12-million ransom was paid.

Mexicans protest against drug war

2011-06-11 15:09:58

Mexican poet Javier Sicilia attends a news conference at the Autonomous University in Ciudad Juarez June 10, 2011.

Diplomats, businessmen flee Libya

2011-06-11 13:35:11

More and more foreign diplomats and businessmen are fleeing Libya to neighboring Tunisia amid intensified NATO bombardment to expedite defiant leader Muammar Gadhafi's demise.

Gates: NATO alliance future could be 'dim, dismal'

2011-06-11 09:38:11

In a stern rebuke, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the future of the NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat.

New evidence of $40K cash gifts in FIFA scandal

2011-06-11 07:55:40

A Caribbean football official acknowledged on Friday getting $40,000 in cash at a meeting which is being investigated in a FIFA bribery scandal.

Turkey offers Gadhafi exit as fighting goes on

2011-06-11 07:43:57

Heavy fighting between pro-Gaddafi troops and rebels broke out in a Libyan city just 160 kilometres east of Tripoli, potentially opening the coastal road to the capital, just as cracks appeared among NATO allies.

France denies NATO helicopter shot down in Libya

2011-06-10 21:38:40

The French defense ministry denied a report by the Libyan media saying that a NATO helicopter was shot down by Gaddafi forces in Libya, Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday.