MANILA, (AP) Philippine communist rebels have agreed to create a plan to stop using child soldiers, a United Nations (UN) official disclosed yesterday.
TOKYO (AP):A magnitude-7.4 aftershock rattled Japan on Thursday night, knocking out power across a large swathe of the northern part of the country nearly a month after the devastating earthquake...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):A gunman opened fire at a public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, killing at least 11 students before taking his own life.At least 18 other people, mostly students, were hurt and brought to local...
Kiev (AP):Greenpeace said yesterday that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the...
BOGOTA, (AP):The reputed Venezuelan drug kingpin whom Colombia has decided to extradite back home rather than to the United States (US) says in a TV interview that he has videos proving Venezuela's ruling elite is deeply involved in cocaine...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Malaysian police were investigating an Islamic school teacher yesterday on suspicion of beating to death a seven-year-old student accused of stealing seven ringgit (US$2.30) from a classmate.Saiful Syazani...
SOFIA, (AP):Bulgarian government officials say some 350 farm animals were slaughtered at a village close to the southern border with Turkey, as a precaution following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.Health and agriculture officials yesterday said...
KINSHASA, (AP):A top Congolese aviation official says that 26 people aboard a United Nations (UN) plane have died in a crash in Congo.UN staff members were on the plane, including peacekeepers.
United Nations (UN) secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon has urged the Ivory Coast's internationally-backed president to investigate hundreds of deaths which have been blamed partly on his supporters.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP):A bill that strengthens grandparents' right to visit their grandchildren when the parents are divorced took effect yesterday in Brazil.President Dilma Rousseff's approval was published in the official gazette.The new law approved...
LONDON (AP):There's still a month to go until the royal wedding and yet some Britons are already asking: Is it over yet?While millions around the world are following every detail of the wedding planning: the guest list, the cake, the carriage...
WASHINGTON, United States (AP): A top NATO commander says there is a reasonable chance Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi will go under pressure from the United States and its partners....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP):Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism award in Argentina.The Venezuelan leader regularly clashes with critical media, but the University of La Plata yesterday gave him its Rodolfo Walsh Prize...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP):Facing an extraordinary wave of popular dissent, Syrian President Bashar Assad fired his Cabinet yesterday and promised to end widely despised emergency laws, concessions unlikely to appease protesters...
