An asylum seeker and his wife blackmailed a Muslim friend by threatening to show photographs of her wearing jeans and a T-shirt to her devout family, a court heard yesterday. Emal Ismaeli, 34, and Joanna Richards, 22, demanded more than £7,000 in a...

Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy for the “Quartet” of powers - the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, was assailed by a Palestinian man during a visit to a mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday. “You...

A man called Stephen Morgan has been charged with criminal damage to two hamburgers worth £5 after becoming involved in an alleged doorstep dispute with a fast food firm.

Turkey has said that it banned Israel from an international air exercise due to begin last week because of its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December. The Turkish foreign ministry had earlier said “a technical matter” had...

To supply nearly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, the United States and its Western allies rely on road convoys with dozens of trucks to carry in everything from jet fuel to frozen pizza. But increasingly these convoys are coming under savage attack by...

A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering from devastating floods. Typhoon Parma toppled trees and ripped off rooftops in Cagayan...

A protester threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn but missed during a conference at an Istanbul university Thursday. The man threw his white sports shoe and ran toward the speakers platform shouting “IMF get out,” but he was...

Yemen’s military opened an investigation Friday into reports that an airstrike intended for Shiite rebels mistakenly struck and killed displaced Yemeni civilians, a Yemen Embassy spokesman in the United States said.

Taiwan’s jailed former president Chen Shui-bian has lost his latest bid to be freed on bail while he appeals a life sentence for corruption, his aide said Wednesday. “The former president was disappointed by the decision of the three...

The mayor of an Irish town where boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s great-grandfather hailed from has warned about housing policies that could lead to a ‘glut of black families’ in any one area. Frankie Neylon said he believed it was better...