US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Military jurors found Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan not guilty Wednesday on terrorist conspiracy charges but convicted him on the lesser charge of providing material support to terrorism.

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Military jurors on Wednesday found Osama bin Laden's former driver guilty of providing material support to terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since World War II.

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A US military jury reached a verdict Wednesday in the controversial 'war on terror' war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan, an official said.

Authorities said they would make an announcement momentarily about their decision in the case, the first US military war crimes tribunal since World War II.

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A US military jury resumed deliberations for a third day Wednesday in the 'war on terror' war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan.

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - US military jurors are to resume deliberations on Wednesday in the trial against Osama bin Laden's driver, even though defense lawyers and rights advocates have dismissed the 'war on terror' tribunal system as fundamentally unfair.

JAKARTA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The three convicted Bali bombers filed a petition against firing squads in Indonesia's constitutional court Wednesday in a last-ditch bid to stave off their executions, lawyers said.

DUBAI, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The Maghreb branch of Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind two suicide bombings in Algeria, claiming they had killed at least 38 people including police and soldiers, web monitoring group SITE said.

KHARTOUM, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Abousfian Abdelrazik is angry, broke and wants to go home. But the father-of-four is holed up inside Canada's embassy in Sudan and cannot, banned from flying as an alleged Al-Qaeda affiliate.

'I'm not violent. I'm an ordinary decent guy who wants to go home,' said the 46-year-old Sudanese-Canadian by telephone. 'I just want to be free.'

KASHGAR, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Gauging Olympic fervour in this tense city depends on whether you ask a member of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group or a Han Chinese, in an illustration of the wide gulf between the communities.

NEW YORK, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A Pakistani mother who graduated from a top US university, then vanished five years ago, was charged Tuesday in New York with attempted murder of US officers in Afghanistan, in a case prompting protests from her homeland.