Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air traffic controllers manning Baghdad airport could remain in Iraq well beyond May amid rising concerns about the security situation.

Clutching a Zulu shield and wearing a sheepskin pelt, Lucky Sukazi stood on a hill in South Africa's most violent province yesterday and delivered a message to President Thabo Mbeki ahead of this week's general elections in South Africa.

Språket står i veien når forfattere fra fjerne land vil utgi bøkene sine i Norge. Forfattere som kommer hit i voksen alder, vil som regel bruke mange år på å lære norsk skriftlig.

Krf vil ha lovendringer som gir Kommunaldepartementet større muligheter til å ha overordnet ansvar for utlendingsforvaltningen.

SEVERAL car bombs were intercepted and a number of suspects arrested by Jordanian security forces, thwarting several terrorist attacks, the government said today.

A TAIWANESE-American forensics expert, who has worked on several high-profile US criminal cases, wrapped up a brief fact-finding trip to Taiwan today, saying he was unable to tell whether President Chen Shui-bian staged a mysterious shooting that injured him one day before his narrow re-election last month.

IRAQI insurgents who kidnapped an American civilian threatened in a videotape to kill and mutilate him today unless US forces withdraw from the Iraq city of Fallujah.

AC-130 gunship raked insurgents Friday night after hundreds of women and children fled the besieged city of Fallujah during a U.S.-declared pause in the Marine offensive. On the anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Baghdad and parts of central Iraq were chaotic.

A senior Japanese official headed emergency meetings in Amman on Saturday to coordinate efforts to rescue three nationals kidnapped in Iraq, officials said.

When the nation turns out to cast ballots in this fall's elections, the voting system will be in no better shape than it was in 2000, a panel of voting experts said Friday.