Thailand’s government insisted on Sunday a crackdown on Red Shirt protesters will continue despite their plea for UN-mediated talks to end four days of street clashes with troops that have left 31 people dead.

With pregnancies at the bases in Afghanistan are on the rise, UK has launched a campaign warning its female soldiers to carry condoms.

The renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist said he was barred from entering Israel and the West Bank on Sunday to speak at a Palestinian university.

Sensational footage apparently showing Russian soldiers shooting survivors of the air crash that obliterated most of Poland’s top-brass, including President Kaczynski and the three military chiefs, has surfaced.

Just as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac.

Thailand’s government insisted on Sunday a crackdown on Red Shirt protesters will continue despite their plea for UN-mediated talks to end four days of street clashes with troops that have left 30 people dead.

A controversial Malaysian lawmaker of ethnic Indian origin has received death threat after he alleged corruption in a government-owned sand mining company.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has declined police outriders who travel in front of his official car, a move that has sparked concern among security expert who fear for his safety.

Two fighter jets were scrambled on Saturday to escort a Cathay Pacific airplane into Vancouver airport following a bomb threat, police said, in the latest such scare to hit North America.

Britain said flights to and from Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland would be halted from 0600 GMT to 1200 GMT on Sunday because of an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.