AN explosion outside an elementary school in a Shiite district of Baghdad killed at least eight people yesterday, as Iraqi officials considered delaying national elections until at least February. The blast occurred...
FLAGS flew at half mast and entertainment programs were canceled across Russia yesterday as the country mourned 113 victims of a weekend nightclub inferno and dozens more fought for their lives in hospitals. One...
GUNMEN loyal to a powerful clan accused in the Philippines' worst political massacre clashed with police in the first reported violence since martial law was imposed in the southern region. No casualties were...
AN HIV genetic stowaway that may have come from a related cat virus could help the AIDS virus transmit and replicate in people, United States researchers have reported. Their finding, which has implications for...
NEARLY 40 years ago, a Kenyan father was visiting his son in Hawaii and took him to his first jazz concert. The boy was Barack Obama and the performer was jazz great Dave Brubeck. "I've been a jazz fan ever since,"...
US commanders are donating up to US$30 million worth of passenger vehicles, generators and gear to Iraq from each facility they leave, as they scale back deployments, up from a previous cap of US$2 million, the Washington...
AUSTRALIANS thought they were prepared for wildfires. Until Black Saturday. The infernos that blazed across Victoria state last February were the most destructive in the history of a country that faces more than...
RUSSIA observed a national day of mourning today for the 112 victims of a weekend nightclub blaze, as investigators stepped up their probe into fire safety breaches and burials continued in Perm. The number of...
GREEK youths are planning more protests in Athens and other major cities as part of the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager that sparked riots last year. Extensive clashes between rioting youths...
ROMANIA'S anti-graft fighting President Traian Basescu looked to have won re-election today, narrowly defeating a leftist challenger for the job of leading the EU newcomer out of political and economic crises. ...
DELEGATES were converging for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as UN officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse...
LUMINARIES from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights yesterday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Actor Robert DeNiro,...
LUMINARIES from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights yesterday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Actor Robert DeNiro,...
AS Captain Benoit Hebert steers the icebreaker l'Astrolabe today through a stormy Southern Ocean heading for Antarctica his thoughts will soon turn to the dangers of icebergs. Large icebergs have recently been...
AS Captain Benoit Hebert steers the icebreaker l'Astrolabe today through a stormy Southern Ocean heading for Antarctica his thoughts will soon turn to the dangers of icebergs. Large icebergs have recently been...
BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth has written to newspaper and magazine editors over the issue of paparazzi photographers intruding on the royal family's privacy, Buckingham Palace said yesterday. "The letter was sent...
BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth has written to newspaper and magazine editors over the issue of paparazzi photographers intruding on the royal family's privacy, Buckingham Palace said yesterday. "The letter was sent...
UNITED States Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant United States military presence in Afghanistan for two to four years more. Just as in Iraq, the US eventually will turn over...
UNITED States Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant United States military presence in Afghanistan for two to four years more. Just as in Iraq, the US eventually will turn over...
TWO stars of the "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" television show have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming. Chef Gino D'Acampo, who won the...
TWO stars of the "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" television show have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming. Chef Gino D'Acampo, who won the...
THE owner of the nightclub where at least 112 people died in Russia��s worst fire in decades was jailed yesterday pending the results of an inquiry as shocked and grieving relatives began to bury the victims of the...
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