KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip, (AFP) - When news spreads of a new Israeli strike around this southern Gaza city, hundreds of people run towards the Nasser hospital to see the wounded and the dead. The buzz of Israeli drones drifts down on the crowd from the sky. Another explosion shakes the ground. "It's ...

WASHINGTON (Agencies) - Outgoing US President George W Bush said Tuesday he was unaware if, during his eight-year tenure, Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was ever close to being captured. At the fag end of his Presidency, Bush also acknowledged his disappointment at the Central Intelligence Agency ...

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia has called an emergency summit of Gulf countries in Riyadh on Thursday (today) to discuss the Gaza Strip crisis, state news agency SPA said Wednesday. Saudi King Abdullah called the summit due to escalating tensions "resulting from the Israeli aggression against the ...

DREW Barrymore 33, is ready for motherhood, but with no husband in sight, she's had to put babies on the back burner. Drew has expressed interest in becoming a mother for a few years now. Back in 2006 she told InStyle magazine, "I definitely feel the beginnings of a tick tock. Whether I have ...

KARACHI - The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has withheld around Rs2 billion of cotton ginners due to financial crisis, The Nation learnt on Wednesday. Some cotton ginners had sold 125,000 bales of raw cotton to TCP during December of 2008, but the state-run organization had not yet paid the ...