Seth Freedman: With every cruel and unusual punishment meted out against West Bank villagers, Israel is fomenting more and more hate against its own people.

Iraq says it plans to rebuild the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, which was closed in 2006 after a scandal over the abuse of prisoners by US troops.

A UN peacekeeper in Lebanon dies while clearing unexploded arms left from the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

Call it the real Republican convention. At least that is how Ron Paul, a US congressman for Texas, and his supporters billed their campaign's Tuesday night "rally for the republic", in which they called on the party to "return to its roots".

A former colleague of the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has pleaded guilty to funnelling millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative contracts in Nigeria for Halliburton, during the Nineties when Mr Cheney ran the giant oil and gas services company.

GAZA CITY — Israel and Egypt are refusing to allow former British prime minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law to leave the sealed off Gaza Strip, giving her a first-hand experience of what Palestinians are suffering from.

Family of girl who shot the footage has been targetted with tear gas and rifle fire.

Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank have shot and wounded a mentally disabled Palestinian man during a raid on his house, medical officials say.

How on earth do they get away with it? Let's start with war between Hizbollah and Israel - past and future war, that is.

Zardari is given back $60m after Swiss courts dropped a money laundering case. Renewed questions arise about about where Mr Zardari acquired such wealth.