About 300 people are feared dead after a rapid series of strong earthquakes hit a mountainous and impoverished area of China\'s Qinghai province early this morning.
An employment tribunal in Britain is now deciding how much the Ministry of Defence should pay a former soldier from St Vincent who\'s won her case against the army for sexual and racial discrimination.
The CNN is reporting that a federal judge from Montana and the dean of Harvard\'s law school are among several people whose names are being added to the short list of potential nominees to the US Supreme Court.
The White House is reporting that the Ukraine has agreed to eliminate its entire stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material ahead of a key nuclear security summit.
Poland\'s acting president Bronislaw Komorowski is to review travel rules for military officials after the president and army generals were killed in a plane crash at the weekend.
US President Barack Obama has cited the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon as the biggest threat to the country’s security.
United States transport regulators are seeking to fine Toyota $16.4 million for failing to take adequate steps to report the problems with the break padals in cars it produces.
The United States has criticized a string of planned defence contracts, which could see Venezuela buying billions of dollars worth of additional weapons from Russia.
The Venezuelan government has announced that it will reopen negotiations with the Dominican Republic to acquire 49 per cent of a Dominican oil refinery.
