President Obama says U.S. troops have met their deadline to withdraw from all of Iraqs towns and cities. He described the handover of control of the cities as an important milestone, but warned that difficult days lay ahead. There are those who will...
Six years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq has taken formal control of security as American combat forces withdraw from urban centers across the country. However US troops will still have a presence. They will be embedded with Ira...
The Congress in Honduras has appointed its speaker, Roberto Micheletti, as acting president after soldiers earlier arrested President Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile. Mr. Micheletti said President Zelaya had been removed constitutionally, and s...
President Obama has joined those around the world whove paid tribute to the singer Michal Jackson, who died on Thursday, age 50. A White House spokesman said Mr. Obama considered Jackson as a spectacular performer. Although said aspects of the stars...
Reports from Los Angeles say that the pop star Michael Jackson has been rushed to hospital. The star whos 50 years old is due to start a series of comeback concerts in London in July. Details of his condition are not known. Rogers Mirchandani is in L...
A bomb blasted at a market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 60 people and injured more than a hundred. It comes shortly before American troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities. Jim Muir reports. The bomb apparently hidd...
In his strongest comments so far on the situation in Iran, President Obama has said the world is mourning for the loss of innocent lives and is aport by the threats, beatings and imprisonments its seen. He called actions by the Iranian authorities on...
There have been more clashes in the Iranian capital Tehran between police and demonstrators protesting against the disputed presidential elections. Eyewitnesses described the center of the city as very tense. The opposition rally took place despite a...
The New Plan of English Premier League HOST: Now last week the football world was taken by surprise when the English Premier League announced a plan to play ten fixtures on foreign soil from 2011. The chief executive Richard Scudamore planed that the...
President Barak Obama has called on the government of Iran to halt what he described as the violent and unjust action against those opposing the results of the recent elections. The president, using his most forceful language so far in the present cr...
