Syria: US Forces deny wedding
A US aircraft fired on a house in the desert near the Syrian border killing more than 40 people who, according to Iraqi officials, were part of a wedding party.
East Timor: Risk of ‘failed state’
East Timor was at risk of becoming a failed state unless Australia came to a fairer agreement over joint oil reserves, an Oxfam report said today.
2012 Olympic canidates
New York, London, Paris, Moscow and Madrid have been accepted today as candidates to stage the 2012 Summer Olympics but four other cities missed out.
India: Gandhi declines leadership
Sonia Gandhi said she would "humbly decline" as the next prime minister of India, following Hindu nationalist outrage over the prospect of a foreign-born woman at the helm of the nation.
A dusin soldiers die in rebel ambush
At least 12 Russian servicemen were killed when rebels ambushed two Russian military vehicles in forested mountains in Chechnya, officials said today.
Prisoners to be freed from Abu Ghraib
The US military will release 472 prisoners on May 21 from the Abu Ghraib jail, centre of a scandal involving abuse of detainees by American soldiers, a military spokesman said today.
Ireland: Survivors remember terror strike
Prime Minister Bertie Ahern joined survivors of Ireland's deadliest terrorist atrocity today to remember the day 30 years ago when Northern Irish extremists killed 33 people with car bombs.
India: Italian flavour upseting
Italy has become "the flavour of the season" in New Delhi with text messages and newspapers making fun at the Italian origin of Sonia Gandhi, tipped to be India's first foreign-born prime minister.
Iraq: Car bomb kills ruling council chief
The head of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed yesterday in a car bombing near a US checkpoint, an official said.
Rumsfeld ‘OKed abuse’
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faces renewed calls to resign over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal amid claims he allowed a secret program using harsh torture techniques.