Kuwaiti woman minister survives
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Kuwait's only female cabinet minister, Nouria Sbeih, survives a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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A woman in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse survived a car crash thanks to her silicon breasts which acted as an airbag, a newspaper has reported.
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In January, Culture Minister Helena Demakova (People's Party, TP) was the most popular among Cabinet ministers with 32.1 percent points, while Minister of Defense Einars Repse (New Era, JL) had the lowest ...
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Ukraine's interior minister survived an attempt in parliament to dismiss him Thursday after lawmakers fell three votes short of the number needed to dismiss the controversial ally of President Viktor Yushchenko.
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Iraqi environment minister Mishkat  Moumin said she survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad  on Tuesday that killed four of her bodyguards.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a Sri Lankan minister with a roadside bomb north of the capital on Tuesday, officials said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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Three weeks after surviving an assassination attempt, Pakistan&#39;s finance minister, Shaukat Aziz, confirmed his place as the country&#39;s next prime minister, after coasting to victory in a byelection.
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Guinea's ailing leader Lansana Conte  survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday, his security  minister said, after unidentified men in military uniform were  reported to have fired on his convoy.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A suspected Islamist zealot opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday, officials said.
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A suicide car bomber killed 13 people outside the offices of a major Iraqi Shi&#39;ite political party on Monday but SCIRI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim survived
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Baghdad&#39;s governor survived anassassination attempt when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as his convoy was passing by, Interior Ministry said.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniya escapes unharmed in attack on Gaza home as factional fighting continues.
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For Iraq's embattled prime minister, the Askariya shrine bombing could not have come at a worse time and could end up bringing down Nouri al-Maliki's unpopular government.
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British newspapers have backed a government minister embroiled in a political storm sparked by his views on the problems posed by Muslim women wearing a veil.
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Kuwait's government resigned on Sunday, parliament members said, in a move aimed at thwarting a no-confidence motion against the Gulf Arab country's health minister, a member of the ruling family.
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Nearly two months after Sunni Arab ministers walked out, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears to have weathered a political crisis that once threatened to bring down his government.