A hit Malaysian Islamic reality TV show is widening its search for the best young Muslim leader by inviting contestants from around the world to take part in the programme.

Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, in the latest in a series of riots across the north African country.

Sudan’s president has warned that south Sudan would struggle as an independent nation were it to vote to secede from the north. Speaking just days before a referendum, which is expected to see southerners vote to establish a separate country, Omar al-Bashir told Al Jazeera that he was concerned about possible instability in the south […]

NATO says three US-led troops have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan, amid a surge in militant attacks against foreign forces in the country. The Western military alliance said two soldiers were killed in the east, while the other was slain in the south. NATO has withheld all other details about the […]

Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a similar attack in the south, AFP reported on Wednesday.

The governor of Pakistan’s powerful province of Punjab, Salman Taseer, has been killed by his own bodyguard in the capital Islamabad, police sources say. Taseer, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, was killed by his own guard in the capital Islamabad on […]

KERMANSHAH: The Iranian authorities have cancelled legal leave of Shaikh Saifullah Hussaini, he has been shifted from “Hajiabad Bisetoun” jail to the central jail of Dizelabad, Kermanshah in the western province of Iran.

Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has arrived in the southern regional capital of Juba to deliver what could be his final address in the region. He will also meet with local ministers ahead of his country’s upcoming vote on secession.

ZAHEDAN: Cancellation of the Baloch citizens’ identity cards on the bases of false and bogus reports is violation of the Iranian rules and basic rights of Balochs, that’s why some of them have joined anti state parties, Shaikh Abdul Hameed said on Friday. The great leader of Sunnis in Zahedan more added, ‘It happened frequently […]

Two US-led service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan on New Year’s Day as 2010 was marked as the bloodiest year in the nine-year-old invasion of the country.