Nine policemen were hurt when a car hit them while they were dispersing a protest in a Bahrain Shiite village, in the first clash reported since security forces crushed a month-long protest in mid-March, BNA state news agency said.

Argentina legend Diego Maradona is to take over as coach next season at Dubai's Al-Wasl, the club vice-chairman Marwane Ben Bayatt announced on Monday

"We have reached an agreement with Maradona and

The private life of Iran’s last monarch Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi is all set to be captured on celluloid with a filmaker planning a TV series on it. Entitled Puzzle of the Shah, the TV series by director Mohammadreza Varzi will be broadcast on one of the channels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, producer Ali Ladoni told the Persian service of the Fars News Agency on Friday.

A couple in Dubai reportedly locked themselves inside their SUV for two hours before surrendering to the police for having consensual sex.

W.J., 34, and his lover C.R., 20, were caught in the act by

The man who committed suicide by jumping off the world's tallest tower Burj Khalifa has been identified as an Indian, the Consulate General of India here confirmed today.

The 38-year-old, who jump

An unidentified Asian man jumped to his death on Tuesday from the 147th floor of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, slamming into a terrace 39 floors below, police said.

"The police

The leader of Al Qaeda's Yemen branch has warned that jihad will become more "intense and harmful" after the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, Site monitoring group reported on Wednesday.

Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Iraq has claimed a suicide car bombing that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others last week in Hilla, south of Baghdad, US monitoring group SITE Intelligence reported today.

Bahrain's King Hamad ordered on Sunday an end to the state of emergency from June 1st, after it was declared in mid-March to tackle a month-long Shiite-led protest demanding political reforms, state m

Al Qaeda promised retribution to the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death, it said in a statement Friday.
Calling Bin Laden a martyr, the Islamist militant group promised to soon release an audio recording made by its leader a week before he died. The Friday statement was the first confirming Bin Laden’s death.