Yemeni authorities have arrested a number of tribesmen whose kin are holding three Germans hostage, security sources said on Tuesday.

A Zimbabwean military commander and ally of President Robert Mugabe was shot in an assassination attempt at the weekend, state media said on Tuesday.

OPEC should cut oil output by "much more" than 1 million barrels per day as inventories were very high, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said in remarks published on Tuesday.

Yemeni authorities have arrested a number of tribesmen whose kin are holding three Germans hostage, security sources said on Tuesday.

A Zimbabwean military commander and ally of President Robert Mugabe was shot in an assassination attempt at the weekend, state media said on Tuesday.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant as he fled forces trying to arrest him in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a military spokeswoman and Palestinian security sources said.

By Deborah Charles

A U.S. security consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America has himself been kidnapped by masked gunmen in northern Mexico.

By Tom Doggett

Chinese children will study "ethnic unity" from primary school, the Education Ministry said at the end of an Olympic year marred by violent riots in Tibet and unrest in the north-western Muslim Xinjiang region.

By Andrew Stern and Michael Conlon

Drug smugglers are increasingly using Singapore as a transit point to ship heroin to the United States and Europe, despite some of the world's strictest drug laws in the city-state, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

By Claudia Parsons

A 16-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu Monday, the 23rd fatality and 51st case of the disease among humans in Egypt, state news agency MENA said.

By Kamran Haider

OPEC should cut oil output by "much more" than 1 million barrels per day as inventories were very high, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said in remarks published on Tuesday.

Xstrata has shut down half its coking coal production at a mine in Australia, the latest cutback by miners in the country as a slowdown in global steelmaking slashes demand for coal and other raw materials.

By Faith Hung

By Mitch Phillips

By Mitch Phillips

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has praised England for resuming their tour of India following a memorable finish to the first test in Chennai.