World News

Golfer Tiger Woods has been hurt in a car accident in Florida.

Travel industry officials in Britain said there\'s been an increase in cruise bookings for the Caribbean, as a result of the hype surrounding the launch of the world\'s biggest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas.

A damning report into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the problem.

A prominent member of a powerful clan suspected of involvement in the killing of 57 people in the Philippines has been taken into custody.

A Swiss court has granted filmmaker Roman Polanski bail in the sum of $4.5 million.

The Washington Post daily newspaper is to shut its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

Four men have been killed in a civilian helicopter crash off the coast of Israel.

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine.

President Barack Obama has praised the United States\' relationship with India as one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century.

British police investigating alleged abuses of parliamentary expenses have referred four cases to prosecutors.

The UK government is warning tourists not to visit Timbuktu in northern Mali, because of a threat of terrorism.

Twenty-one politicians and journalists who were abducted in the southern Philippines have been found dead in an attack linked to next year\'s elections.