PHNOM PENH: The UN-backed tribunal's Supreme Court on Saturday sentenced Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, commander of Khmer Rouge Tuol Sleng prison, to life imprisonment for his crimes against the Cambodian people, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.   

CAIRO: Four people were killed and another 1,531 injured in bloody clashes between Egyptian security forces and protesters over a recent football riot, the country's health ministry said Friday.

SINGAPORE: Dr Toh Chin Chye, a former Singapore deputy prime minister (DPM) and a founding member of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP), died at his home this morning.

BRASILIA: Brazil’s minister of cities Mario Negromonte has resigned amid allegations of irregularities - the eighth member of President Dilma Rousseff’s cabinet to step down since June.

SEATTLE: A library in the Washington city is making news after refusing to remove a man who was watching pornographic videos on a library computer, reported Seattle PI.

GAZA: Israeli airplanes carried out a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding at least two civilians, witnesses and medical sources said.

LONDON: More deaths were reported in Eastern Europe on Thursday as the region continued to shiver in the grip of unusually frigid weather, CNN reported.

PORT MORESBY: Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea after a passenger ship sank off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Friday, CNN reported.

CAIRO: Egyptians, angry at reports of inadequate security at a soccer match where 79 people died in a riot, clashed with police, leaving at least 900 injured in Cairo, officials said early Friday, CNN reported.

WASHIINGTON: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a "strong possibility" that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said Thursday in an editorial.

GAZA, 2 FEBRUARY, 2012: Families of several Palestinian prisoners threw shoes at the convoy of UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon as they entered the Gaza Strip from Israel Thursday morning, China's Xinhua news agency quoted witnesses as saying.

 ADDIS ABABA, 2 FEBRUARY, 2012: Ghanaian Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Alhaji Mohamed Mumuni has dismissed criticisms that China is trying to re-colonise Africa with its increased interest in the economies of African countries.