Actor Harry Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in US TV show Mash, has died aged 96.
BBC News - Mash star Harry Morgan dies aged 96
I used to love that show
Japan has used funds from its tsunami recovery budget to subsidise its controversial annual whaling programme, environmental activists say.
BBC News - Japanese tsunami fund 'used for whaling programme'
A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country.
BBC News - 'End of virginity' if women drive, Saudi cleric warns
The US says it will increase international pressure on Iran, which it alleges is behind a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
Two Iranians have been charged with conspiracy over what US officials said was a plan conceived and directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Israel and Hamas agree a deal to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return for the release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, snatched by militants five years ago.
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Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship loaded with weapons, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
He did not say where or when the vessel was stopped, but vowed to confiscate any arms shipments for Syria coming through Turkish waters or airspace.
BBC News - Turkey seizes...
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists - because it seems subatomic particles have beaten the speed of light.
BBC News - Brian Cox on Cern's baffling light-speed find
A meeting at Cern, the world's largest physics lab, has addressed...
The number of Bedouin, an Arabic abbreviation of Bidoon Jinsiyah or “without citizenship,” is estimated at between 100,000 and 120,000 in a population of 2.8 million.
Mostly descendants of Bedouin nomads who failed to apply for citizenship when Kuwait passed its citizenship law in...
Unless you follow the Middle East closely, you can be forgiven this week for not paying much attention to the bloodshed in and around Gaza.
BBC News - Arab Spring spells uncertainty for Israel
A convoy of Libyan rebels has rolled into central Tripoli past celebrating crowds after a day of heavy fighting in and around the capital.
BBC News - Scenes of joy as Libya rebels enter central Tripoli
A new television series is the latest dramatisation of the Camelot myth. But why is the legend of King Arthur such a compelling one in culture?
Take a note of the picture. I live not far from there "Glastonbury" and its in a kind of dip and very often there's a mist and that's exactly how it...
Traditionally this had been the job of the moral police, but now a traffic police officer can give Iranians two fines in one, a speeding fine and an un-Islamic dress code fine.
Isn't Iran a weird place? Whats the heck is it all about? is it a power trip by the rulers? I dont thinks its an...
On 1 June 1941, a Nazi-inspired pogrom erupted in Baghdad, bringing to an end more than two millennia of peaceful existence for the city's Jewish minority. Some Jewish children witnessed the bloodshed, and retain vivid memories 70 years later.
BBC News - Farhud memories: Baghdad's 1941...
I watched a fascinating show on TV last night on this very subject, amazing stuff.
Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.
More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which...
I am glad to see this man apprehended and i query why once again one of the worlds most wanted men were found hiding in countries that were supposed to be looking them.
Serbia to investigate Ratko Mladic's 'protectors
BBC News - Serbia to investigate Ratko Mladic's...
well do you love it or hate it? and the Danes may even ban it. Personally i love it.
A shop in Copenhagen was recently asked to remove its supplies of Marmite following a phone call from Danish authorities,
BBC News - Marmite: Denmark says spread could be illegal
Turkey's Gulen movement, which promotes service to the common good, may have grown into the world's biggest Muslim network. Is it the modern face of Islam, or are there more sinister undercurrents?
BBC News - What is Islam's Gulen movement?
Well this is good news for the Palestinians, lets hope it doesnt get abused by certain elements and it all backfires.
I see the Egyptian government doesn't completely trust Hamas , with men between the ages of 18 and 40 needing a visa ( military age?) all others are exempt.
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I have a question for Muslims mainly and others as long as it can be kept civil i detect a certain turmoil as to how to view Bin Laden. I want to put forward the information that i have come across concerning the fact that the majority of deaths caused by Alqueda have been Muslim deaths...
I have noticed over the years that France does indeed flex its military muscle when it feels like it , but it never seems to draw much attention.
When troops entered the grounds of the presidential residence where Laurent Gbagbo had been holding out, defended by his die-hard loyalist...