An Airbus A310, from the national airline Yemenia on route to Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean with 150 passengers on board. No information is avilable about the passengers and the crew. The cause of the Yemenia airline crash is not known yet.

A car bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, has killed at least 16 people, including six attackers. U.S. Embassy Spokesman Ryan Gliha said several other explosions occurred after the car bomb blast Wednesday.

The reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah are moving to the next level, and will be presented during the Arab League summit in Syria on Saturday.

Yemen's Abdul-Karim Qasem, who creates crosswords for publications like al-Arabi magazine and the newspaper al-Moshahad, has created a puzzle more than 3 times larger than the current recognized record holder.

Turnkey solution includes 10 million cards to be rolled out for the Parliamentary elections in April 2009

Filmmaker Arda Nederveen and anthropologist Marina de Regt have made a short documentary about Ethiopian and Somalian women who work as domestic workers in Yemen. Many families in economically developed countries make use of migrant women as domestic workers and cleaners. But even in a relatively poor country such as Yemen, migrants and refugee women do paid domestic work.

President Bush and his Yemeni counterpart, Ali Abdullah Saleh met at the White House yesterday to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. President Bush thanked President Saleh for Yemen's contributions to the fight against terrorism.