Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says the Premier League title will be decided when his side face Manchester United with three games to go. Mancini’s side lost top spot to United following their shock defeat to Swansea and trail their neighbours by a point. But City host United at Etihad Stadium on 30 April and [...]
Egypt’s parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups. The U.S. was angry enough over the charges against the American workers that it threatened to cut [...]
The bodies of 47 women and children have been found in the Karm el-Zeytoun and al-Adawiyeh districts of south-east Homs, an activist told AFP Horrific pictures have been posted online showing some of the alleged victims. AFP also reports that the opposition Syrian National Council has called for an emergency UN security council meeting to [...]
Fresh airstrikes early Monday in Gaza led to the death of a 15-year-old boy, the fourth civilian killed in four days of bombing by the Israeli military, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Israel said the airstrikes targeted militant rocket launching sites across the Palestinian territory. The bombing killed three people, Palestinian officials said: the [...]
The killing of 16 villagers by an American soldier in Afghanistan’s south could hurt Washington’s efforts to reach a strategic pact with Kabul to allow a long-term U.S. presence in the country, a government official told Reuters on Monday. Sunday’s attack on the civilians, the latest American public relations disaster in Afghanistan, could be a [...]
The pairing of Jupiter and Venus in the sky is set to reach its closest point in the coming days. Despite being vastly far from one another in space, the conjunction will make them appear just a few degrees apart in the sky – about the width of a pair of fingers held at arm’s [...]
Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaign’s most important issue, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Increasingly pessimistic views of Obama’s performance on the economy — [...]
A German suggestion to debate once more the creation of an EU constitution won mixed responses on Saturday, with France’s foreign minister welcoming the idea but only nine countries planning to attend a seminar in Berlin. Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle said on Friday the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, drafted after Dutch and French voters [...]
A Malaysian minister embroiled in a scandal over government funds meant for a cattle project says she will resign. Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said on Sunday she would step down as minister for women, family and community on 8 April. Her family had been accused of misusing the 250m Malaysian ringgit ($83m; £53m) fund to pay [...]
Law enforcers and activists of ruling Awami League and its front organisations attacked the opposition men triggering sporadic clashes at different city points when the latter were on their way to mass rally on Monday. Several people were injured in the clashes. Sounds of two gunshots were heard and three cocktails were exploded during the [...]