AP - Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed in Pakistan, according to a militant Web site.
AP - Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed in Pakistan, according to a militant Web site.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday defended the Vatican’s right to speak out on bioethics, including its opposition to artificial procreation methods and embryonic stem cell research.
AP - Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation’s capital is built on their land.
AP - Africa cannot thrive unless Kenya does, so Africans must make solving its crisis a priority, the head of the African Union told the continent’s leaders ? among them the Kenyan president ? at Thursday’s opening of a three-day summit.
AP - A judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting a Rio samba group from parading during carnival with a float depicting naked bodies of Holocaust victims.
AP - Antigua’s agriculture minister Charlesworth Samuel was found dead Thursday.
AFP - A leading Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, an Islamist website monitored by the US-based service SITE said on Thursday.
AP - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain’s airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered with volleys of artillery. Civilians were killed and wounded in the crossfire.
AP - A policeman gunned down an opposition lawmaker Thursday in an attack officials described as a crime of passion. Protesters burned houses in revenge, convinced it was an assassination in a nation gripped by ethnic fighting since a disputed election.
