BEIRUT (AFP) - Family members have identified a man who died at the weekend after he tried to hitch a ride from Beirut to Riyadh by hiding in the wheel bay of a passenger jet, Lebanon's justice minister said Monday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A military probe has found Israel's armed forces committed serious errors in preparing and carrying out the deadly boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, media reported on Monday.

An Algerian transsexual has published her memoirs, describing the discrimination she faced in her home country, which culminated in death threats that forced her to flee to Lebanon.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's conflict with Israel is still far from over, Beirut-based dailies warned on Monday, four years to the day since the first bombs fell in the last war between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The property development arm of Dubai World has ditched plans to construct luxury waterfront homes in Malaysia as the debt-laden company attempts to raise cash, a report said Monday.

Iran's judiciary chief has temporarily halted the execution of a woman convicted of adultery, state media reported Sunday, citing a judicial official.

DUBAI (AFP) - Ever wondered how to make a bomb at home, what to pack for a jihad or how to communicate in encrypted messages?.

A top Iranian lawmaker says newly found documents back up Tehran's claims that the CIA is responsible for the disappearance of one of its nuclear scientists, Iranian media reported Sunday.

DUBAI (AFP) - Dubai's debt-laden group Dubai World invited creditors to meet on July 22 to agree on terms for restructuring 60 percent of its debts, an official familiar with the matter told AFP on Sunday.

SANAA (AFP) - Yemen's council of clerics called Thursday for jihad, or holy war, in case of foreign military intervention amid speculation the United States might join Sanaa's pursuit of Al-Qaeda extremists...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the nuclear scientist killed in a bombing Tuesday was assassinated and the act "revealed signs of the involvement of the Zionist regime, the U.S. and their allies in Iran," state media reported...

A university professor who was a staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution behind Iran's religious establishment was killed Tuesday morning by a bomb, state media said...

A report released Sunday by an Iranian fact-finding committee has found that 147 detainees held after last summer's post-election protests were stuffed into a small room, deprived of adequate food and subjected to other forms of mistreatment, Iranian media reported...

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli air strikes hit seven targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early Friday, killing three men and wounding another, Palestinian medics said...

CAIRO (AFP) - Attackers in a car raked a crowd of shoppers in a south Egypt town with gunfire, killing a policemen and six Coptic Christians on the eve of their Christmas celebrations, a security official said on Thursday...

ASHGABAT (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday inaugurated a new gas pipeline link to Iran from its energy-rich neighbour Turkmenistan, which he said would take ties to a...

SANAA (AFP) - The US mission in Yemen reopened Tuesday following a two-day closure as security fears prompted by Al-Qaeda threats against Western targets in the impoverished country eased, the embassy said...

SANAA (AFP) - Security has been ratcheted up around the airport and foreign embassies in Sanaa, Yemeni officials said on Monday, amid fears of strikes by an Al-Qaeda branch linked to a botched attack on a US airliner...

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Blasts in central and western Iraq killed 30 people and wounded the Anbar provincial governor on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks against government targets in recent months...

SANAA (AFP) - Yemen confirmed on Tuesday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who has been charged with trying to blow up a US-bound airliner, was still in the country earlier this month, after the local Al-Qaeda branch claimed the attempted bombing...