Three NATO troops killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan were British, officials said today. The three soldiers from the Royal Highland Fusiliers died yesterday when their vehicle was hit on a routine patrol in the district of Nahr-e Saraj, part of the southern province Helmand.

An election candidate escaped unharmed Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southern Pakistan which left two people wounded, police said, after the latest in a wave of attacks to hit the campaign.

Botswana President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, a government spokesman said.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid today, surviving a blast that targeted his convoy in Damascus, Syrian state television reported.

The Supreme Court has indefinitely postponed a hearing for telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal over corruption allegations involving the allotment of telecom airwaves.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday he believes a border dispute over an alleged incursion by Chinese soldiers can be resolved, the Press Trust of India reported.

A senior civil servant at Syria’s electricity ministry was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car today in central Damascus.

Draft legislation which will allow Prince William and his wife Catherine’s first child to become monarch even if it is a girl, took a step closer to becoming law on Monday.

Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

13 gunmen died carrying out revenge attacks on Army checkpoints in north Iraq on Tuesday after dawn clashes between protesters and security forces left 27 people dead, top Army officers said.