Victory would have seen Japan qualify for the 2014 World Cup

Australia's poor start to World Cup qualification continues

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Jordan's monarch hits out at US journalist as comments about several Arab leaders cause a stir

The Government's seemingly endless battle to deport the radical cleric Abu Qatada went back before the courts today.

Group, from the Philippines, transferred to Jordan after three days of captivity

Suleiman Abu Ghaith, thought to have been involved in planning the 9/11 attacks, will answer terror charges in the USA

In excess of half the refugees are children who face the prospect of having their lives forever blighted by the conflict

The family of radical preacher Abu Qatada has won an injunction preventing protesters from demonstrating outside their home.

A second relative of a UK patient who recently contracted a potentially fatal Sars-like virus has become infected with the disease, taking the total to three within the family, health experts said.

With a a massive flow of refugees, there is still a long way to go before they get the support they need

Said Musa Maragha, better known by his nom de guerre, "Abu Musa", was a hard-line Palestinian military commander who rebelled against Yasser Arafat to form a rival party. He died in Damascus on 29 January at the age of 86.

The United Nations has said that it was struggling to cope with an “unrelenting flow” of families fleeing violence in Syria, as the number of documented refugees topped 700,000.