SANA’A - Yemeni security forces killed seven Al Qaeda militants Sunday in a fresh clash in the country’s southern province of Abyan, authorities said.

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s deputy justice minister acknowledged Sunday that a man convicted of killing a British aid worker in 2004 escaped from prison 11 months ago and that the government only learned of the breakout last month.

Police: R&B singer Faith Evans arrested in Los Angeles on drunken driving charge

Afghan President Hamid Karzai defends move to disband private security firms

Wash. bride arrested for DUI after bachelorette party, released just hours before wedding

Former Mo. inmate says he’s still trying to get justice years after conviction was overturned

Iowa farms recalling eggs share suppliers and ties to businessman often cited for violations

WASHINGTON — Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are working to find the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened as many as 1,300 people and forced the recall of more than a half-billion eggs.

Al Qaeda releases Spanish hostages after eight months

NOUAKCHOTT - Two Spanish hostages kidnapped and held in Mali by Al Qaeda for eight months were released Sunday, local sources and regional news network al-Arabiya reported.

Afghan president pledges that women’s rights will not be sacrificed for peace with Taliban

Informant who posed as terrorist key to trial of 4 charged with plotting to bomb NY synagogues

Informant is key to NY synagogues bomb plot case

Two LeT militants surrender in Kashmir

JAMMU - Two top militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) surrendered in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, police said.

Video of mob beating 2 brothers to death as police watch sparks anger, anguish in Pakistan

Video of mob killings sparks anguish in Pakistan

Faulty cameras and alarms at Cairo museum blamed for theft of van Gogh painting in Egypt

Faulty alarms blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt

Blagojevich won’t rule out return to politics if prosecutors fail to convict him at 2nd trial

U.S. President Barack Obama joins Martha Coakley

Broken cameras and alarms at Cairo museum blamed for theft of van Gogh painting in Egypt

Security lapses blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt

Security forces launch operation against Naga rebels

SARAIPUNG - Security forces in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh Sunday launched a joint counter-insurgency operation to evict militants of the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) involved in raiding border villages, leading to a volatile situation in the past week.

Families of 9/11 victims to protest mosque at Ground Zero

NEW YORK - Families of the victims of the 9/11 terror attack in New York would hold a protest at the site of the World Trade Centre to oppose the construction of a mosque there.

14 killed in Afghan clashes

KABUL - Fourteen people were killed in fresh violence in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

Officers who killed Moscow Metro blasts’ suspect to be rewarded

Moscow, Aug 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The security officers who Saturday killed the mastermind behind the Moscow Metro suicide bombings in March will be rewarded, a top Russian official said Sunday.

Swedish prosecutors defend about-face over recaled WikiLeaks rape allegation

Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face

Spain says US prepared to take political dissidents released from Cuba jails

WikiLeaks founder Assange rejects sex abuse accusations in interview

WikiLeaks founder rejects sex abuse accusations

BNP-Jamaat linked to 2004 grenade attacks: Hasina

DHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that her political rival Khaleda Zia, chief of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), and the then government had “direct links” with the grenade attacks on a 2004 party rally in which 24 people were killed and over 400 injured.

Seven Al Qaeda men killed in Yemen

NY archbishop says he’s saddened by spate of suspected anti-Hispanic attacks blamed on blacks

Wash. bride-to-be arrested for DUI after bachelorette party, released hours before wedding

27 people arrested, at least 5 injured in Arizona shootout involving rival biker gangs

4 decapitated bodies hung from bridge in Mexican city besieged by drug gang infighting

Jamaica party seeks probe of who hired firm to lobby US on alleged drug lord’s extradition

Soldiers in Guyana will bolster police patrols in high-crime areas after spike in gun violence

More than 80 arrested at Love Festival rave party at Los Angeles Sports Arena

Iraq acknowledges killer of British aid worker escaped from prison 11 months ago