International rapid forces must be quickly despatched to Lebanon, US President George Bush said after talks in Washington with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. The two have agreed that an international force would augment the Lebanese army, and assist with t
A landslide has blocked a rush-hour train of London's subway early Thursday morning at the peak of the rush hour. Some 600 passengers had to be evacuated, despite the fact that the train didn't derail, transport officials said.
The trial against Saddam Hussein was postponed for October 16, when the former Iraqi president and two top lieutenants could be sentenced to death. Saddam Hussein made his first trial appearance in court in more than a month on Wednesday and said he'd rat
An incident at a nuclear Russian submarine has caused a small leak of radioactive water, a spokesman from the Russian navy has said. The feed-water for the nuclear reactor on board the Northern Fleet submarine leaked Wednesday but radiation level has rema
In Rome, UN-led crisis talks ended with no agreement to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The talks were overshadowed by the death of four UN observers who were killed by an Israeli missile on Tuesday.
The French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand has urged medical students and retired doctors to help in hospitals during the current heatwave. The heat has now claimed 23 lives in France, reviving memories of the 2003 summer when 15,000 people died.
Creditors of the Russian oil company Yukos voted overwhelmingly to ask a bankruptcy court to liquidate the beleaguered firm. The court is almost certain to agree to the request at a hearing scheduled for August 1 and will appoint a supervisor to sell its
Libya was close to building a nuclear bomb at one stage, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi admitted, as cited by the Libyan news agency. According to JANA, this is the first time that a Libyan official confirms the country had tried to build a nuclear bomb af
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has landed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to open a Middle East tour to discuss the crisis tearing the country for a week now. She is expected to meet Lebanese leaders, including PM Fouad Siniora.
At least 23 passengers, including a child, were killed and several others were injured when a bus went off the road on Sunday in Nepal, near the border with China. According to reports, the bus fell off 300 meters of height and plunged into the Jalbire Ri
More than 50 people have died in two separate car bomb attacks in Iraq. At least 34 of them were killed when a bomb exploded at a crowded market in Sadr City - a mainly Shia area in the Iraqi capital.
Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein has been taken to hospital as a result of a hunger strike, prosecutors at his trial in Baghdad say. Saddam Hussein is thought to have begun refusing food on 7 July in protest against the murder of his lawyer.
The death toll in the tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java has risen to more than 650, BBC reported. Around 100 new bodies have been found in recent days, the national disaster agency said.
Romania's Chief Prosecutor Ilie Botos resigned Friday over critiques he made opportune the flight of a Syrian-Romanian businessman accused of masterminding the abduction of three journalists in Iraq. The presidency said in a statement Ilie Botos handed hi
A British reporter from the Daily Mirror shocked his country as he managed to plant a bomb-like device on a train carrying nuclear waste, the paper reported Friday. Tom Parry spent months monitoring trains that carry radioactive waste and saw that there w
Pope Benedict XVI issued an appeal Thursday for Israel and Hezbollah to stop fighting and immediately open humanitarian corridors so civilians in Lebanon can reach safety. The German-born pontiff issued a statement announcing Sunday a "special day of pray
The world's largest philanthropic organization The Gates Foundation is giving away USD 278 M to boost the potency of HIV vaccines, BBC announced. The initiative plans to add chemicals to the already existing vaccine to stimulate the body's basic immune re
More than 100,000 people, three-quarters of them foreigners, had crossed into Syria from Lebanon over the past five days, Syrian authorities said. An Italian navy ship was the first vessel from Lebanon to reach the nearby Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
More than 300 people have been confirmed dead and nearly 130 people are missing after a fierce tsunami smashed into Indonesia's Java island on Monday. Officials expect the death toll to continue to rise.
At least 10 Lebanese civilians were reported to have been killed in fresh overnight Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in the southern part of the country. The Israeli military said it had struck the militants' Beirut HQ again, as well as a wea
The Discovery space shuttle has touched down safely in Florida after a 13-day mission, world media reported on Monday. The flight was only the second shuttle mission since the Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003 and killed everyone on board.
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