BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's top court on Wednesday jailed former deputy premier Tareq Aziz for 15 years and awarded death sentence to two half-brothers of executed dictator Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity. The High Tribunal also jailed Saddam's cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid for 15 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The world population is projected to top nine billion in 2050, up from 6.8 billion this year and seven billion early in 2012, according to UN estimates released Wednesday. Most of the additional 2.3 billion people will swell the population of the developing world, estimated ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - The UN envoy, who helped set up Afghanistan's post-Taliban government, has warned the country is unravelling, saying an upcoming US-backed conference must undo years of neglect. Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran UN diplomat from Algeria, chaired the 2001 Bonn conference that established ...

JADE Goody left hospital Wednesday after begging doctors to die at home surrounded by her family. The terminally ill reality television star will spend her final weeks with her beloved sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie, and husband Jack Tweed at her Essex home, with the help of 24-hour ...

KARACHI - The ongoing crack down to stop the proposed long-march of lawyers and political parties has paralysed economic activities in the country especially in Punjab. The businessmen and exporters told The Nation that the administration has withheld the containers and blocked the main roads of ...