International News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion.

SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at nuclear reactors in New Jersey.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters began gathering in Bangkok on Friday for what they promise will be a "million-man march" in coming days to paralyze Thailand's capital and force the government to call elections.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a narrow lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results in Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead in minority Sunni areas.

The wife of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor - on trial in The Hague for war crimes - has a baby girl.

At least 45 people die in twin suicide attacks on Pakistani security forces in the eastern city of Lahore, police say.

At least 45 people die in twin suicide attacks on Pakistani security forces in the eastern city of Lahore, police say.

MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life.

Labour peer Baroness Uddin says she is "relieved" after being told she will not be prosecuted over her expenses.

BA cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March in a dispute over pay and staff levels.

BA cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March in a dispute over pay and staff levels.

The mother of a girl who starved to death is sentenced to 15 years and her stepfather jailed indefinitely.

German campaigner tells of childhood Catholic abuse

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is holding separate talks in London later with Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is holding separate talks in London later with Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents.

A public exhibition of the masterplan for US tycoon Donald Trump's controversial £1bn golf resort witnesses angry scenes.

STAINES, England (Reuters) - A son of Ghanaian immigrants who was educated at Eton, Britain's most exclusive private school, parliamentary candidate Kwasi Kwarteng embodies both change and continuity in the Conservative Party.

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg upstages team-mate and returning Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher in second practice in Bahrain.

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg upstages team-mate and returning Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher in second practice in Bahrain.