http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-newsScottish News | World News | Herald ScotlandenCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservedSat, 26 May 2012 15:55:03 PDTCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservednoScottish News | World News | Herald Scotlandhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/egypt-torn-between-the-old-guard-and-islamists.17698908http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/egypt-torn-between-the-old-guard-and-islamists.17698908The Muslim Brotherhood said yesterday its candidate in Egypt's first free presidential vote would fight a run-off next month with ex-airforce chief Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/chinas-president-demands-party-unity.17698910http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/chinas-president-demands-party-unity.17698910Chinese President Hu Jintao has demanded senior Communist Party officials stifle tensions over the ousting of ambitious politician Bo Xilai and show unity as they prepare for a change of leadership, sources said.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/is-it-the-end-of-the-line-for-americas-death-row.17634003http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/is-it-the-end-of-the-line-for-americas-death-row.17634003The Allan B Polunsky Unit is a maximum security prison in Polk County, Texas, an hour or so north of Houston.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/war-crimes-accused-had-new-life-in-us-as-grocer.17698883http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/war-crimes-accused-had-new-life-in-us-as-grocer.17698883A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 made a new life in Las Vegas as a grocer before being arrested and deported to his native country, US officials said.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/crew-jailed-over-ships-grounding.17698898http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/crew-jailed-over-ships-grounding.17698898THE captain and the navigator of a ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef last year in the country's worst maritime environmental disaster have been jailed for seven months each.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/france-to-end-combat-mission-in-afghanistan.17698902http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/france-to-end-combat-mission-in-afghanistan.17698902All French combat forces will pull out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, France's new president said during a visit to Kabul yesterday.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/tyrants-toppled-but-gains-remain-fragile.17692001http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/tyrants-toppled-but-gains-remain-fragile.17692001IT was all about hope and a desire for change.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/unabomber-posts-reunion-update.17687046http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/unabomber-posts-reunion-update.17687046Harvard's alumni association has apologised after it emerged that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had posted a sick update for his classmates' 50th reunion this week.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/tobacco-taxes-to-rise-40-x.17687050http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/tobacco-taxes-to-rise-40-x.17687050NEW Zealand's Government has squeezed smokers more than ever by announcing a 40% hike in tobacco taxes over the next four years.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/dispute-blow-to-iran-nuclear-talks.17687066http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/dispute-blow-to-iran-nuclear-talks.17687066IRAN accused world powers yesterday of creating "a difficult atmosphere" hindering talks on its atomic energy programme, signalling a snag in diplomacy to ease a stand-off over fears of a covert Iranian effort to develop nuclear bombs.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/mood-of-celebration-as-egypt-goes-to-the-polls.17678000http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/mood-of-celebration-as-egypt-goes-to-the-polls.17678000Egyptians queued patiently to vote yesterday, eager to pick their leader for the first time in a national history dating to the pharaohs, with Islamists and secular-minded rivals who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak heading the field.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/obama-and-romney-level-in-polls-as-rivals-clash-over-us-economy.17674671http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/obama-and-romney-level-in-polls-as-rivals-clash-over-us-economy.17674671US voters are nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, with five months to go before the election, polls show.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/western-powers-in-iran-nuclear-talks.17677736http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/western-powers-in-iran-nuclear-talks.17677736Fresh talks between world powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme have begun in Baghdad.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/spanish-miners-protest-at-cuts.17678414http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/spanish-miners-protest-at-cuts.17678414oviedo: A miner stands in front of burning barricades on the A-66 motorway, on the first day of a strikes to protest against the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in Pola de Lena, near Oviedo, northern Spain.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/farm-worker-guilty-of-terreblanche-murder.17670696http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/farm-worker-guilty-of-terreblanche-murder.17670696A South African court has found a black farm worker guilty of murdering Eugene Terre'blanche, a white supremacist prominent during the dying years of apartheid, after a dispute over wages.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/sober-ceremony-after-fatal-blast.17667220http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/sober-ceremony-after-fatal-blast.17667220Yemeni leaders led a sombre ceremony yesterday to mark the country's National Day, scaling back celebrations a day after a suicide bombing killed nearly 100 soldiers in a rehearsal for a military parade.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/jury-sworn-in-for-mauritius-trial.17667287http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/jury-sworn-in-for-mauritius-trial.17667287A jury has been sworn in for the trial of two men accused of strangling the daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte in Mauritius.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/syrian-police-kill-two-rebels-as-un-monitors-enter-town.17667631http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/syrian-police-kill-two-rebels-as-un-monitors-enter-town.17667631SYRIAN police killed two people yesterday when they opened fire on a crowd that came out to welcome United Nations observers in the eastern province of Deir al Zor, a rebel official said.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/niagara-suicide-man-survives.17667164http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/niagara-suicide-man-survives.17667164ONTARIO: A man survived a plunge of at least 180ft over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt – only the third person known to have lived after going over the falls without a safety device.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/24-killed-in-indian-rail-disaster.17667218http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/24-killed-in-indian-rail-disaster.17667218At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger train rammed into parked freight wagons and caught fire in southern India yesterday.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/suicide-bomber-kills-90-in-military-parade-blast.17659794http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/suicide-bomber-kills-90-in-military-parade-blast.17659794A suicide bomber infiltrated a rehearsal of a military parade in Sanaa yesterday, killing at least 90 people, and wounding a further 200, mostly soldiers.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/election-result-adds-to-turmoil.17657419http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/election-result-adds-to-turmoil.17657419Nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic has won the Serbian presidency, a result that adds to the political turmoil in the Balkan country and could slow down its attempts to join the European Union.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/two-dead-as-syrian-fight-enters-lebanon.17657445http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/two-dead-as-syrian-fight-enters-lebanon.17657445Two people were killed and 15 others injured in street battles between pro and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital as the spiralling conflict in neighbouring Syria spilled across the border.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/ex-army-chief-freed-from-jail.17657649http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/ex-army-chief-freed-from-jail.17657649Sri Lanka's former army chief walked free from jail yesterday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his highest-profile rival.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/thousands-homeless-after-earthquake.17657655http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/thousands-homeless-after-earthquake.17657655Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as more than 100 aftershocks rocked the area hit by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake which killed seven people and inflicted heavy damage to centuries-old cultural sites.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/opposition-leader-to-face-court.17657657http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/opposition-leader-to-face-court.17657657MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over his role in a street protest against the Government last month.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/megrahi-buried-in-libya.1337607577http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/megrahi-buried-in-libya.1337607577The only man convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been buried with little fanfare near the Libyan capital.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/bahrain-activists-is-granted-bail.17641446http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/bahrain-activists-is-granted-bail.17641446DUBAI: A Bahraini court has granted bail to leading activist Nabeel Rajab, who is charged with insulting authorities in the Gulf Arab state, but he is still being held pending trial for another case.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/american-hurt-in-yemen-shooting.17641448http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/american-hurt-in-yemen-shooting.17641448SANAA: A US military instructor has been shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants inYemen.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/kurdistan-defies-baghdad-over-oil.17641453http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/kurdistan-defies-baghdad-over-oil.17641453ARBIL: Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting its crude oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country's oil sales.nonadult