MELBOURNE — Three men were found guilty Thursday of plotting to attack a Sydney army base with high-powered weapons and kill as many people as possible to further the cause of Islam

Ohio (keydmedia) - A 20-year-old immigrant from Somalia said someone assaulted her with pepper spray outside an Ohio mosque and told her to leave the country, spurring investigations by police and likely the FBI.

WASHINGTON (keydmedia) - The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, delivering President Barack Obama his top foreign policy goal as the lame- duck Congress session draws to an end.

Nairobi (keydmedia) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo in Ivory Coast of trying to blockade the UN mission there and said the situation could become critical within days.

Mogadishu(keydmedia) Somali transitional federal government says it plans to ban charcoal export in the semi-arid horn Africa nation in an attempt to save the environment

Washington (keydmedia) - The 5 p.m. news broadcast of a Charlotte, N.C., television station was cut short today when a woman with a gun entered the building and put the gun to her head.

The latest casualty of WikiLeaks fever is an iTunes app that promised "instant access" to the controversial site, feeding "new content and leaked documents regardless of coordinated attacks and server disruptions to the original Wikileaks website."

London (keydmedia) - Britain has said it had expelled a diplomat from Russia's embassy in London for espionage and that Russia had responded in kind.

Iraq's parliament has approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his new government, nine months after an inconclusive election left politics in limbo and delayed investments to rebuild the country after years of war.

Nairobi (keydmedia) - Scores were injured after a bus exploded in downtown Nairobi in Kenya on Monday evening. Emergency services were scrambled to the scene with unconfirmed reports indicating that 14 people had been initially injured after a loud explosion was heard at about 1700GMT.

Kuala Lumpur (keydmedia) - 28 people have died after a double-decker bus crashed in the Cameron Highlands region of Malaysia.

London (keydmedia) - Twelve men have been arrested in a major counter-terrorism operation in the UK.