Two US soldiers in Afghanistan have been indicted for abusing detainees, the US military said on Monday, adding that the results of a separate probe into the burning of two dead Taleban bodies could be

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Some 1,000 demonstrators blocked a railway connecting Turin in northern Italy with the French city of Lyon on Monday, causing transport disruption as they protested against a planned high-speed rail link. The protests, which were

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Embattled US President George W. Bush on Monday nominated a conservative appeals court judge, Samuel Alito, to the Supreme Court in a move expected to heal a rift in his Republican party. In a joint

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Efforts to forge a German bipartisan coalition were disrupted on Monday when the head of the Social Democrats said he would step down as party leader and might not join a new cabinet after suffering

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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed Shinzo Abe as Japan's top government spokesman in a cabinet reshuffle on Monday, strengthening the popular Abe's position as a candidate to succeed the prime minister next year. Koizumi, who

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made future progress in the Middle East peace process conditional on the disarmament of Palestinian militant groups Monday as he vowed to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

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A civilian was killed in a bomb blast probably targeted at a US military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, while security forces foiled a suicide attack on foreign troops, officials said. A bomb fixed

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Two big American drug companies have signed agreements to develop a treatment called a microbicide - a gel or a cream that a woman could use to protect herself from AIDS, advocates said on Monday.

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Sterling gained around half a percent against the euro on Monday after Spain's Telefonica SA said it would buy British mobile phone firm O2 Plc for 17.7 billion pounds ($31.6 billion). The pound also shot

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The dollar firmed against most major currencies on Monday as investors bet this week's Federal Reserve meeting and US economic data would cement the case for more dollar-supportive interest rate rises. The dollar kept its

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