AP - A British man abducted in Baghdad by armed militants disguised as policemen was freed Wednesday, alive and remarkably well after 2 1/2 years in captivity, the British government said.
AP - A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The Iranian government vented its anger at Britain last night, declaring that London deserved a “punch in the mouth” for its role as the “chief culprit” behind the mass protests sweeping the Islamic Republic. The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei further upped the ante at home, branding senior opposition members “enemies of God” who deserved to be executed. And in what human rights groups and diplomats described as another “ominous development”, Iranian police told leading opposition members that they could no longer guarantee their safety outside their homes. Among those to receive the warning was Mehdi Karroubi, who came fourth in June’s disputed presidential election and whose car was…
MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writers= PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) â It’s 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts â new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them. Her cell phone chirps. Her desk phone bleats. She scribbles notes on a planner, spins in her chair, juggles requests about labs and drug regimens. Rossouw is on the front lines of a new battle in the fight against HIV: The drugs that once worked so well are starting not to work. And now the resistance is showing up in sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world’s 33 million HIV cases. Ten years ago, between 1 percent and 5…
Reuters - North Korea has been taking equipment left at a nuclear reactor site that was mothballed when an international consortium halted work on grounds the communist state was breaking an agreement, a news report said on Wednesday.
Reuters - GMAC Financial Services is close to getting about $3.5 billion in added aid from the U.S. government, on top of the $12.5 billion already received since December 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported.
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India said on Wednesday that all countries involved in next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi were satisfied with the security arrangements. The comments came after a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper — since denied by English sports authorities — that England was mulling pulling…