ISTANBUL: Turkey's Islamist-rooted government faced growing pressure on Monday after angry demonstrators clashed for a third night with police in a nationwide wave of protests.

FORT MEADE, MARYLAND: Army pfc. Bradley Manning goes on trial on Monday, more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq and charged in the biggest leak of classified information in US history.

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has disciplined a group of female soldiers who posed for photos in underwear and combat gear and posted the images on Facebook.

LONDON: Police have charged a man with murder in the killing of a British soldier in a suspected Islamic extremist attack in broad daylight on a London street.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former Justice Department official James Comey as his next head of the FBI, a source said on Wednesday

ATHENS: Hundreds of Greek neo-Nazis marched with torches through the streets of Athens late on Wednesday to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople.

WASHINGTON: Barack Obama is obviously the first African-American President of the United States; but less well known — he is also the country's foremost leader from the Asian-American community, a constituency he never fails to wow and flatter on every occasion.

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang faces the challenge of meeting conflicting demands for his attention and Beijing's purse when he lands in Pakistan on Wednesday at the end of his India visit, his first foreign tour after assuming office.

LONDON - Britain's House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.

BRUSSELS: Ending months of hesitation, the European Union opened the door on Tuesday to adding the military wing of Lebanon's Hezbollah to its list of international terrorist groups, EU diplomats told AFP.