In a letter to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed serious concerns about increasing restrictions on press freedom in Ethiopia in the wake of the pending adoption an anti-terror legislation. A copy of

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NORTH Korea is promoting the virtue of dog meat as a way to beat the summer heat and says customers are packing Pyongyang restaurants which serve the traditional dish.

THE severed head of Ghanaian King Badu Bonsu II, who was executed by colonialists in the 1880s, was flown back home to a solemn traditional ceremony.

THE BBC has been plunged into a new controversy after Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson used the most offensive swear word in the English language to describe British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in front of a studio audience.

WWI trench soldier Harry Patch dies Claude Choules last surviving veteran Patch called the war "organised murder"

THIEVES have stolen German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt's official limousine from near the Spanish town of Alicante while she was on holiday.

SIX people were killed and 12 injured when a rockfall hit a bridge in Wenchuan, the epicentre of the quake which devastated southwest China last year.

INDONESIA has reported its first death linked to swine flu after a six-year-old girl who had severe pneumonia died in a Jakarta hospital.

IRAQI Kurds voted on today in polls expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan and unlikely to allay voters' worries about corruption or end a feud with Baghdad over land and oil.

THE man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, has appealed to be freed on compassionate grounds.

A new service allows people to pray at the Western Wall (AKAk, the Wailing Wall or The Kotel) remotely, via Twitter. The service's website can be found at Tweet Your Prayers, and its Twitter feed can be found at http://twitter.com/TheKotel.

Vowing to return home, ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a few symbolic steps inside Honduras on Friday but backed away from a confrontation with Honduran security forces waiting to arrest him.

Two Australians sustained only minor injuries when the train they were travelling in derailed in southern Croatia on Friday, killing six people.

US Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that Russia's economy is "withering," and suggested the trend will force the country to make accommodations to the West on a wide range of national-security issues, including loosening its grip on

At least 30 people have been killed and 20 others have been injured when an Aria Air plane crash-landed in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Press TV reported. The plane en route to the northeastern city of Mashhad from Tehran

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