Toyota has released the upmarket version of its Blade hatchback in Japan. The Blade is the hatchback version of the new-generation Corolla that is not even available here yet. On sale as of yesterday, the Blade Master and Blade Master G come with the Aurion’s 3.5-litre V6 as standard equipment.
A US marine sergeant is found guilty of murder and conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian near Baghdad in 2006.
Sticking points over proposals to extend the UN mission in Iraq lie closer to home than Baghdad, writes the BBC's Matthew Wells.
The BBC's Middle East analyst examines the US's prospects of reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Two men are hanged in Tehran for murdering a judge, the first public executions in Iran's capital since 2002.
A British couple in their 80s choose Lebanon as their retirement destination.
We picked up a 2008 Nissan Murano for only a two-day test, and apparently we are the first ones to drive this new press vehicle. Now admittedly nothing has changed over the 2007 or even earlier models (that we can see), but props to Nissan for not stuffing us at the bottom of any waiting [...]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a deal with the Palestinians to reform their security services.
Two Palestinians are killed in a second day of clashes between Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups.
Likewise, the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt has maintained its diplomatic representation in the Nepalese capital with a full-fledged ambassador as the Head of the Mission. via Gorkhapatra Sansthan