TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday he would propose at least three female ministers in his new Cabinet following Iran’s disputed election, an unprecedented move in the conservative Islamic state. The hard-line…

A crew of Egyptian fisherman turned the tables on a band of Somali pirates, locking them up in a ship’s hold after spending four months under siege. The high-seas drama unfolded Friday when the Egyptians, who were captured by the pirates as they…

Oh, chute! A British skydiver plunged a terrifying 2,000 feet when his parachute malfunctioned — yet survived with a stroke of nearly incredible luck. Paul Lewis, a parachutist of 20 years’ experience, was videotaping a novice’s jump from 10…

A wedding-tent fire and the ensuing stampede killed at least 41 women and children yesterday evening in Kuwait and left dozens of other people critically injured — fueling fears that the death toll would climb. “The number of fatalities might…

KABUL — A suicide car bomber struck near the front gate of NATO headquarters in Kabul yesterday, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in a brazen daylight attack less than a week before Afghanistan’s landmark presidential election. The…

There’s a little Godzilla in town. Yankee slugger Hideki Matsui quietly became a daddy earlier this year when the most mysterious of all Bomber wives gave birth to a little boy, The Post has learned. Matsui married last March, and strangely…

KABUL — A suicide car bomber struck near the front gate of NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in a brazen daylight attack less than a week before Afghanistan’s landmark presidential election. Also…

MOSCOW — A ransom demand has been received for the return of a Russian-manned freighter that went missing last month in the Atlantic, Finnish investigators said Saturday. It was not immediately clear if the ransom demand was legitimate, and the…

A Taliban operative detonated a massive suicide car bomb near NATO headquarters in Afghanistan last night, rocking the capital, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more. Bloodied and dazed Afghans wandered the streets in Kabul after…

They make quite a couple! Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) and President Dmitry Medvedev are spending some serious quality time together. The pals strolled near the Black Sea beachfront (right) with Medvedev’s golden retriever, Aldo…