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Published:Thursday | June 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW (AP): A van carrying security workers and a truck collided head-on in Poland yesterday, killing eight people and injuring nine.Police spokesman Marek Konkolewski described the accident as one of the country's most deadly in recent times.

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) :The White House said yesterday that President Barack Obama has the authority to continue United States military action in Libya even without authorisation from critical lawmakers in Congress.In a detailed, 30-page report being sent to...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SHANGHAI (AP): Millions of Chinese children suffer from lead poisoning despite a crackdown on contamination, and local officials are systematically withholding the right to medical testing to cover up the problem, a rights group alleges....

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ARIZONA (AP) :The fire burning in eastern Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is now the largest in state history, although nowhere near the most damaging to homes.The Wallow fire has forced nearly 10,000 people to evacuate in several small...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Three federal firearms investigators told a House committee yesterday that they were repeatedly ordered to step aside while gun buyers in border state Arizona walked away with AK-47s and other high-powered weaponry headed for Mexican drug cartels...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

DEXTER, (AP) While known at school as a fun-loving kindergarten teacher whose students made ice cream and tie-dyed shirts, Amy Lake was living a nightmare at home as she sought to protect herself and her children from an estranged husband who threatened...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI, (AP) A six-storey building under construction in Kenya's capital collapsed yesterday, killing at least two people and leaving 14 missing, officials said.

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TRIPOLI (AP):A NATO air strike hit an area near Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's compound in the capital again yesterday, as military leaders voiced concerns about sustaining the operations if the alliance mission drags on.A column of grey smoke could be...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A District of Columbia police officer has been arrested on a theft charge, accused of stealing money from an 85-year-old woman.Court documents say 35-year-old police sergeant, Aisha Hackley, was arrested yesterday at the headquarters...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BOYNUYOGUN (AP): Syrian tanks and the government's most loyal troops pushed into more towns and villages yesterday, trying to snuff out any chance that the uprising against President Bashar Assad could gain a base for a wider armed rebellion....

Published:Monday | June 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

CALHOUN, Georgia (AP):In this northwest Georgia town where many work in the local carpet factories, people crammed into a community centre to learn about Georgia's new law cracking down on illegal immigration...

Published:Monday | June 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Business leaders have warned that government plans to create a temporary workforce of overseas skilled migrants will be "incredibly disruptive" to Britain's economic recovery...

Published:Monday | June 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Federal authorities are spreading the message in immigrant communities: Be wary of anyone who promises help getting immigration papers.A spokesman for US Citizenship and Immigration Services says scams...

Published:Sunday | June 12, 2011 | 12:03 PM

Syrian government forces have advanced into the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, as part of a widespread government crackdown.

Published:Sunday | June 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

AP:If he manages to keep his seat in Congress, Representative Anthony Weiner would join a handful of political figures who survived what initially looked like a career-ending debacle.

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2011 | 6:02 PM

Pakistani police are reporting that at least 15 people have been killed after two explosions ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2011 | 12:09 PM

Journalists are pouring through 24,000 pages of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's e-mails, after they were released by officials in the US state.

Published:Friday | June 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW, Russia (AP): A devastating wave of wildfires across Russia could ravage millions of acres of forests and cause worse damage than last year's catastrophic forest and peat-bog fires, environmentalists and officials said yesterday....

Published:Friday | June 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP):An authority says dozens of pregnant teens arrested during a raid last month on a Nigerian clinic accused of illegally selling babies are victims of human trafficking.Arinze Orakwe, a...

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2011 | 5:59 PM

The al-Qaida terrorist network has issued a warning to the United States of America that it is still a major target.

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2011 | 1:50 PM

The Syrian government has been accused of committing crimes against humanity.

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 10:26 AM

Embattled former chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has pleaded not guilty of the sex assualt charges in his first court appearance today.

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The agriculture industry fears a disaster is on the horizon if the one bit of new immigration policy that Congress seems to agree on becomes law.

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Pope Benedict XVI strongly backed Croatia's bid to join the European Union (EU) as he arrived in the Balkan nation Saturday, but said he could understand fears among eurosceptics of the EU's "overly strong" centralised bureaucracy.

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: Millions of voters still don't have one.

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