President Ali Abdullah Saleh was burned over 40 percent of his body and suffered bleeding in the brain from last weekend's attack on his palace, US officials said Tuesday.
Violent clashes took place in Yemen's southern province of al-Dhalea on Tuesday between several military sites scattered in the mountain and separatist gunmen using heavy machine guns, witnesses and officials told Xinhua.
Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-02M with three astronauts onboard blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early Wednesday to the International Space Station (ISS), according to TV reports.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday in a press conference in Tehran that the country will never stop uranium enrichment.
Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant Tuesday in the face of the heaviest NATO airstrikes yet, at least 40 thunderous daylight attacks that sent plumes of smoke billowing above the Libyan leader's central Tripoli compound.
Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi defiantly vowed to fight to the death in an audio recording broadcast Tuesday after NATO military craft unleashed a ferocious series of nearly 30 daytime airstrikes on Tripoli.
Obama administration officials say Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was more badly injured than thought in a rocket attack on his compound last week.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran will never stop uranium enrichment.
The European Union (EU) decided on Tuesday to extend assets freeze to six Libyan ports in bids to ratchet up pressures on its embattled government.
European Union agriculture ministers are assessing whether farmers will be able to recoup from EU coffers up to 30 percent of the cost of vegetables that cannot be sold because of the German E.coli contamination crisis.
Military and medical officials say clashes have killed a total of 19 people, including three children, in two Yemeni provinces.
The UN refugee agency says a Libyan woman who claimed she was raped by Gadhafi troops has arrived in Romania.