Several al-Qaeda militants escaped early on Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such spectacular jailbreak this year.

Tawakkul Karman, a Yemeni activist and journalist who has fallen foul of the authorities in her struggle for rights, on Friday became the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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At least 140 people have been killed in two weeks of clashes between Yemeni security forces and suspected Al Qaeda gunmen in the Southern city of Zinjibar, a military official said on Monday.

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for urgent medical care for burns and other wounds suffered in a rocket attack on his palace. The abrupt departure of a k

US-Yemeni cleric and terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaqi narrowly escaped a US drone attack three days after American commandos killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, a tribal source said on Saturday.

Al Qaeda gunmen killed two soldiers and wounded three others on Wednesday in Yemen's restive Southern province of Abyan, a security official told AFP.

Armed separatists killed two Yemeni soldiers and wounded another on Saturday in an attack on a military checkpoint in southern Lahij province, a security official said.

One of two powerful bombs mailed from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues travelled on two passenger planes within West Asia, a Qatar Airways spokesman said Sunday.