Summary: Human rights groups lashed out at Myanmar's military leaders for evicting cyclone refugees from relief camps and forcing them back to their isolated villages destroyed by the ...
Summary: Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of ...
Summary: Myanmar must stop forcing cyclone survivors to return to their shattered homes where they face more misery or even death rights groups said on Saturday as a US official accused the junta of being deaf and dumb to foreign aid pleas
Summary: China has evacuated over 197000 people from an area that risks flooding by landslide blocked rivers near the epicentre of this months earthquake in Sichuan province Xinhua news agency said on Saturday
Summary: A Salvadoran passenger plane skidded off a rainsoaked runway on landing at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday killing five people and injuring 38 as it veered onto a road and smashed into cars and a building
Summary: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Saturday he would crack down on antigovernment protests that have ignited fears of a military coup
Summary: Reuters - South Korean students, parents with
toddlers in tow, and union members took to the streets on
Saturday in a massive protest against a government decision to
resume imports of U.S. beef that they see as dangerous.
Summary: A suicide car bomber killed one foreign soldier and wounded six other people including three civilians in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Saturday the provincial governor said
Summary: Sudans government has proposed a joint northsouth administration for the oilrich flashpoint Abyei area where clashes displaced tens of thousands of people this month state media said on Friday
Summary: Alma the first tropical storm of the hurricane season lost its strength on Friday over Central America sparing oil platforms in southern Mexico after slamming parts of the region with deadly winds and rain
Summary: More than 100 nations formally agreed on Friday to ban the use of cluster bombs but debate continued on loopholes that could benefit powers such as the United States which has refused to take part in talks on a ban
Summary: A large crane collapsed in New York City on Friday killing two people and damaging an apartment building on Manhattans Upper East Side a day after city officials investigated the cranes operations
Summary: Police are investigating the deaths of a fiveyearold boy and a fouryearold girl who are believed to have been stabbed in south London Scotland Yard said on Saturday
Summary: Campaigners opposed to Heathrows proposed third runway are hoping thousands of people will attend a rally against the airports expansion on Saturday
Summary: AFP - China on Sunday made final preparations to drain a dangerous "quake lake" in an audacious attempt to avert a disaster that could flood the homes of over a million people.
Summary: Couples who have found a legal loophole to hold the first gay weddings in Greece are determined to go ahead with the services despite threats from prosecutors and the wrath of the powerful Orthodox church
