Julian Assange, whose WikiLeaks website gained notoriety for releasing thousands of secret US cables, has said that his group has faced its 'greatest struggle' for press freedoms in the US.

"There is

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.

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, officials said today.

The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail

Hundreds of residents fled an Indonesian port town for higher ground today when an earthquake struck south of Java with a magnitude estimated by US seismologists at 6.7.

The epicentre in the Indi

Tokyo: Millions of people in greater Tokyo were stranded far away from home today evening after Japan's biggest earthquake on record shut down the capital's massive subway system.

Sirens wailed thro

Cairo: Ten people were killed and 110 wounded in religious clashes in Cairo, the health ministry said, as Egypt's mew military rulers struggle to steer the post-revolution country through a transition

Brussels: The European Union agreed on Tuesday to slap new sanctions on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime, notably targeting the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the overseas investment vehicle

Cairo: Egypt's once widely feared interior minister Habib al-Adly is to appear before a criminal court on March 5 accused of money laundering, judicial sources told media on Sunday.

Adly would be

Sanaa: Police killed three people as vast crowds took to the streets across Yemen after weekly Muslim prayers, staging mass protests to demand that veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down.

Yemen: Pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign on Saturday intensified when the leaders of two of Yemen's most important tribes abandoned the president and joined the anti-regime movement.

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