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Rebel leader Guy Philippe today said he would hold off attacking Haiti's capital for a day or two in response to US appeals.

Preparations for the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States were finalised in the Spanish Mediterranean port of Tarragona, newspaper El Pais said on Sunday, quoting US intelligence sources.

The European Union, South Korea and others slapped a ban on the import of all poultry products from the United States on Tuesday following the outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian influenza in the state of Texas.

Americans like Australians more than anyone else in the world. France: 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys', according to the US

A Toronto nurse who caught the deadly SARS virus last year today filed suit against Canada, Ontario and the city of Toronto, accusing them of poor management in the crisis over the outbreak of the respiratory disease.

The presiding judge in Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial is stepping down for health reasons, adding to the uncertainty over the two-year-old hearing just as prosecutors were set to wrap up their case.

The world's most spectacular show began in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome arena yesterday, with the first of a string of famous samba schools parading before a crowd of 100,000.

A secret report prepared by the Pentagon reportedly warns that climate change may lead to a global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater risk than terrorism.

PAKISTAN has denied any knowledge of al-Qaeda terror network leader Osama bin Laden being cornered by US and British special forces in a mountainous area in the northwest of the country.

REBELS armed with assault rifles, mortars and grenades have attacked a refugee camp in Uganda's north, shooting people as they fled and burning others alive in their huts, killing at least 192 people. Dozens of others were wounded.