MIDDLE EAST

• Verdict in Dubai 'sex' trial due Oct 16

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  A Dubai court will deliver its verdict on two Britons accused of having sex on a beach in the booming Gulf emirate on October 16, legal sources say. read more...

• Bombings target Baghdad Green Zone

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  Two huge bombs exploded just outside Baghdad's tightly-guarded Green Zone as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to address reporters inside. read more...

• Taliban and Afghan officials break bread

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  A former high-level Taliban official said that he met in Saudi Arabia with representatives of the Taliban, the Afghan government and a powerful Afghan warlord. read more...

• Term ends in January for President Abbas

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  Hamas will no longer recognise Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president after January 8 and will then fill the post with one of its leaders. read more...

• Yemen says 'terrorist cell' dismantled

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced the dismantling of a "terrorist cell" which he said was linked to Israeli intelligence services. read more...

• PKK 'has bodies of Turkish troops'

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claims it has the bodies of two Turkish soldiers killed in a raid last week in south-eastern Turkey near the border with Iraq. read more...

• Captured extremist 'had links to senior Taliban leaders'

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  A captured Taliban commander behind bombings and kidnappings in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province is linked to many of the group's senior leaders, the Defence Department says. read more...

• Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 60km fall to earth go on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem. read more...

• Suicide bomber kills 11 in Iraq

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  Eleven people have been killed in a suicide bombing and gunbattle during a US raid on a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday, the US military says. read more...

• Hamas rejects early legislative polls

  Sunday, 5th October,2008

  The Islamic Hamas movement has rejected efforts to hold early legislative elections. read more...

• Two US Blackhawks 'crash in Baghdad'

  Sunday, 5th October,2008

  Two US Blackhawk helicopters crashed in northern Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiyah, a US military spokesman says. read more...

• Olmert probed again in corruption probes

  Friday, 3rd October,2008

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been questioned by police for the eighth time since May on corruption allegations that led him to resign from office. read more...

• Iraq blasts kill 26 as Shi'ites mark Eid

  Thursday, 2nd October,2008

  Twin suicide bombings near Shiite mosques in Iraq's capital killed at least 20 people as worshippers celebrated Al-Fitr feast which follows the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, officials said. read more...

• Jailed Jordanian women escape 'honour killings'

  Wednesday, 1st October,2008

  This week, Dateline meets the women of Jordan, who've been imprisoned under the guise of keeping them safe. read more...

• Iran minister admits to fake uni degree

  Tuesday, 30th September,2008

  Iran's interior minister has admitted that the honorary doctorate from Oxford University that he presented to parliament was a fake, Fars news agency reported. read more...