An Iraqi lawmaker says parliament will hold an emergency session to vote on removing its speaker from office over a dispute about the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George w. Bush.
His brother says the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush would do it again and that he was forced to apologize after being tortured in jail.
International stock Markets mostly fell today in light pre-Christmas trade after Japan’s Toyota motor corp. issued its second profit warning in less than two months.
Alleged arms smuggler Viktor Bout has taken the witness stand for the first time at a court in Bangkok.
The head of a large West Bank family wants to reward the Iraqi journalist who lobbed his shoes at president George W. Bush by sending him a bride.
Asian stocks are mixed after Japan slashed interest rates to almost zero.
President George W. Bush hosts Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today to assess the stalled U.S.-backed negotiations with Israel.
The investigating judge in the case of the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President George w. Bush says the man shows signs of being beaten.
A spokesman for Iraq’s Prime Minister says the Iraqi TV journalist who hurled his shoes at President George w. Bush is begging for a pardon for what he describes as “an ugly act.”
South Korean politicians try to enter a barricaded room being used by the leading parties.
The United Nations says the toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to more than 1,000 deaths.
UN judges say an immunity deal Radovan Karadzic claims he made with a US peace envoy would not prevent the former Bosnian Serb leader’s trial on charges including genocide.
A U.N. court has convicted the organizer of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed more than 500,000 lives and sentenced him to life in prison.
Animal lovers in China’s capital unfurled protest banners today against the killing of cats for food in a southern Chinese province.
Oil prices rose above $44 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as investors waited to see how big a production cut OPEC will Announce at a meeting later today in Algeria.
Global markets are mixed after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate to historic lows.
Authorities at Canada’s Whistler Ski Resort say more than 50 people have been evacuated from about 50 gondolas.
Israeli rescue services say at least 20 people are dead and dozens seriously injured after a tourist bus overturned near the popular red sea resort town of Eilat.
It's a sign that criminal proceedings could be starting in the case of the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush Sunday in Baghdad.
French police have neutralized explosives discovered today in a restroom of a prestigious Paris department store.
An Iraqi government official says the journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush has been handed over to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad.
Most international stock markets edged up in cautious trading ahead of an expected interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve later today.
International stock markets rebounded today on renewed hopes of a bailout for troubled U.S. Automakers.
No shoe sightings to report in Afghanistan.
The top U.N. Envoy in Iraq is urging the Shiite-led government to treat prisoners from the Saddam Hussein era fairly.
