Soutwestern China has been hit by an earthquake which was felt as far away as Bangkok and...

A US plane has delivered aid goods to Myanmar....

According to government officials, some electricity supplies have been fixed in parts of Myanmar's biggest city of...

Pakistan's coalition government is on the verge of collapsing after only seven weeks of...

The Gaza Strip's sole power plant is once again being supplied with fuel by...

Zimbabwe's top electoral official has told a state newspaper that it is likely the country's presidential run-off poll will be...

A delegation of Arab League members has gone to Beirut to try to solve the latest crisis in Lebanon....

A Hamas official has claimed that Hezbollah's gains in Lebanon are part of a regional process that began last year in the Gaza Strip and will continue in Jordan and...

The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious...

Powerful tornadoes have strewn debris across the United States, while shattering homes and businesses and killing at least 21...

Beijing, May 12 (Xinhua) China Eastern Airlines (CEA) Monday cancelled all flights to southwestern Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu after a major earthquake hit the region and, according to an estimate, killed at least 5,000...

Italy's new interior minister says he wants to reimpose border controls for travellers from Europe's Schengen Zone....

Serbia's pro-western President Boris Tadic has declared victory in the country’s closely contested parliamentary elections against the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party....

A boat, laden with relief supplies to Myanmar cyclone victims, has...

New Delhi, May 12 : A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. Monday, the State Seismological Bureau said, revising a previous figure of...

Haitian authorities say a ferryboat capsized near the capital Port-au-Prince late on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and leaving dozens more missing....

Beijing, May 12 (Xinhua) A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in China's southwestern Sichuan Province Monday afternoon, the State Seismological Bureau said. A smaller quake jolted Beijing within...

Residents search among the debris of a collapsed house in Dujiangyan City. Picture / Reuters Nearly 900 students were buried in China's Sichuan province last night by a huge earthquake.The official...

Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the...

CHANDIGARH: Upset over coalition partner SAD's attitude towards it, the BJP state leadership said "time has come to redefine the alliance agreement in...

Most of the key ministers from his previous government remain in their posts, while powerful figures from his former presidential administration have been brought in to boost the new team. Alexei...

Sen. John McCain's speech Monday favors capping carbon emissions gradually Some of McCain's stances on environment put him at odds with other Republicans Environment a top issue in battleground...

HOBART - A Hobart hotel worker trapped inside a burning lift says he thought he was going to die as firefighters worked desperately to prise open the doors.Patrick Denniss, 19, said molten vinyl was...

Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the quake, raising fears the overall death toll could increase...

Award-winning American actor Jon Voight has visited Israeli victims of Palestinian militant attacks during a trip to Israel.In Jerusalem on Monday, Voight played with children whose fathers were...

Massive quake rocks China, leaves four dead Chinese state media say a strong earthquake that struck China Monday has killed at least 107 people.Xinhua News Agency said another 34 people were...

BRISBANE - Residents have joined a fight to stop the Queensland government from completing a controversial dingo fence on world heritage-listed Fraser Island.Queensland began building the A$750,000...

JERUSALEM - United States businessman Morris Talansky said yesterday he had no intention of bribing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert while contributing money to his election campaigns.Talansky is...

CAIRO, May 12 (IPS) - Palestinian resistance factions signed on to an Egyptian ceasefire proposal last month aimed at bringing a measure of calm to the hapless Gaza Strip. In a bid to secure Tel...

On Wednesday, he plans to make two stops in Michigan - the swing Macomb County and the GOP stronghold of Grand Rapids. He plans to spend three days starting May 21 in Florida, with stops in Tampa,...

PICHER, Okla. (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled...

His administration continues to reject Western and UN demands for an independent inquiry into the deadly confrontation in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijon on May 13, 2005. But as the anniversary...

Tsvangirai will return for runoff (+video) HARARE - The presidential run-off pitting President Robert Mugabe against Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not be held in the next few weeks as...

Maryland expands its DNA database this week Samples will be taken from people suspected of violent crimes Rape victim Laura Neuman went public, lobbied for change in law Other states, feds also...

BEIJING: At least 107 people were killed and nearly 900 students were feared buried in devastated areas of southwest China where a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday morning. ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to...

Emissions trading bill running out of time It's a classic stand-off between one of the world's best loved animals and one of its most unpopular leaders, between the planet's largest bear and its most...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street advanced moderately Monday as a rising dollar cooled some concerns about inflation and helped keep oil prices in check. The Dow Jones industrials at times rose more than...

Three U.S. Navy ships in the Bay of Bengal were sailing closer to Myanmar on Monday, ready to aid cyclone victims if they are given permission, Vice Adm. Doug Crowder told reporters in Jakarta,...

One mother dies protecting son, one dies checking on mother, reports say 15 dead in Missouri, 1 killed in Georgia, six in Oklahoma, officials say States of emergency declared in Oklahoma, Georgia...

NEW: Obama picks up endorsement from Rep. Tom Allen of Maine Clinton campaign trying to turn out the vote in the remaining contests Clinton highly favored in West Virginia, where 28 delegates are at...

A powerful earthquake in southwest China has killed at 3,000 people and buried 900 teenagers in a collapsed school. The death toll was expected to rise sharply as authorities and rescue teams make...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp sealed a $650 million deal to buy 97 percent of Newsday Media Group from Tribune Co, the companies said on Monday, after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's campaign chief predicted on Sunday his long battle against Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination would soon be over, saying "we're...

A drunk man stabbed his 29-year-old son to death after a row over chips, a court has heard. Martin Thomson, 51, returned to the Merthyr Tydfil home he shared with his son Craig and three lodgers...

Send us your comments However, he indicated that he would support the Pakistan People's Party-led government from the backbenches on an issue-by-issue basis. "We will not become part of any...

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has pledged to tackle "bad practice" in the City of London as he outlined plans for a better system of regulation. He said he wanted his to be the "party that...

A Japanese company is developing a vending machine that counts wrinkles and skin sags to check a smoker's age. It plans to use face recognition technology to prevent anyone under the legal age of 20...

Manchester United chief executive David Gill has promised Sir Alex Ferguson further funds to strengthen his title-winning squad this summer. Gill said: "We will be in a position where, if we can...

The brother of a waiter shot dead in an Orkney restaurant in 1994 has told a court he could think of "no reason" why anyone would want to murder him. Michael Ross, 29, denies murdering 26-year-old...