BEIJING (AP): Fresh landslides rocked another area of China yesterday, sweeping through a mountain town in the south-west of the country after days of heavy rains and leaving at least 67 people missing and cutting off access to the area....
Romania (AP):Israeli doctors who rushed to Romania yesterday said they feared there was not much they could do to help seven premature infants who were critically burned in a hospital fire that left four other babies...
Congo (AP): Dozens of rebels attacked a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping base under darkness in eastern Congo early yesterday, killing three Indian soldiers and wounding seven other peacekeepers, an Indian army official said...
Mexico (AP):The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead yesterday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang battles.The body of Santiago Mayor...
LONDON (AP): Crops destroyed, millions homeless, children hungry.The scenes from flood-hit Pakistan are wrenching, but the global response has been criticised as sluggish.
BAGHDAD (AP):A suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday killing 60 persons and injuring 125 others, in one of the bloodiest bombings in the Iraqi capital.The massive strike just outside a major division...
A court ordered Venezuela's newspapers on Tuesday to stop publishing photographs depicting blood, guns and other violent images and warned an opposition-aligned daily that it could face a hefy fine for publishing a photo of bodies in a morgue.
The immediate threat of strikes at Britain's main airports has been averted after a preliminary settlement was reached by the British Airports Authority and the union representing its employees.
MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexico's Supreme Court yesterday upheld a Mexico City law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples.The justices voted 9-2 against challenges presented by federal prosecutors and others who had argued the law fails to protect adoptive...
Iran (AP):Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said in a TV interview broadcast yesterday.The stoning sentence for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani...
Colombia (AP): A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island yesterday. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one person died. ...
Mexico (AP):Unidentified gunmen shot eight men to death and piled their bodies in a pickup truck in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexican authorities reported yesterday after a weekend in which at least 19 people were slain nationwide.The victims were...
The United Nations is reporting that up to 3.5 million children are at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan following the country's floods.
One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and split into two while landing early this morning on the island of San Andres, Colombia.
The governments of Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago are to sign an agreement on the development of gas fields on their common maritime border, after years of negotiation.
The Unions and the management of the British Airport Authority, are to meet today in an attempt to avert a strike that could close six UK airports later this month.
