Yemeni tribes are deeply loyal to their people........

Thousands of tribesmen threatened to descend on Yemen s capital to join the battle against forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

 For months, youth-led protesters have tried to drive out Saleh peacefully. But their campaign has been overtaken and transformed into an armed showdown between Yemen s two most powerful families, the president s and the al-Ahmar clan.

Australian official refuses to single out China in internet espionage.....

Australian attorney general says any country can fall prey to internet espionage.

 Australia s attorney-general on Friday said cyber attacks had become so frequent that government and private networks were under "continuous threat", testing online security defenses.

 But Robert McClelland declined to single out China, at the centre of hacking allegations from Internet giant Google, saying the