Zacarias Moussaoui returned to the witness stand Thursday, arguing that he could not get a fair trial so close to the Pentagon and criticizing the United States' support for Israel.

Under sustained pressure from mainstream political parties and Maoists to restore democracy, Nepal's King Gyanendra on Thursday night called for general elections.

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has proclaimed his country's membership of the "club of nuclear countries".

An RAF doctor who refused to serve in Iraq because he thought that the war was illegal has been sentenced to eight months in prison.

Controversial anti-terror laws came into force across Britain Thursday, to the dismay of civil liberties campaigners and Muslim groups.

European scientists on Thursday released the first photos of Venus' south pole from their orbiting Venus Express spacecraft.