Published:Thursday | May 22, 2008 | 12:07 PM A woman who survived nine days trapped in debris yesterday became the latest in a series of so called against-the-odds rescues in China where the official death toll from last week\'s massive earthquake has risen to more than 41,000.
Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2008 | 3:57 PM US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy was released from the Massachusetts General Hospital earlier today.
Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2008 | 3:56 PM Violence against foreigners in South Africa has spread outside Johannesburg to the port city of Durban.
Published:Wednesday | May 21, 2008 | 10:49 AM Barack Obama has said he is now within reach of becoming the Democratic candidate for the US presidency.
Published:Tuesday | May 20, 2008 | 3:30 PM US presidential candidate Barack Obama looks set to increase his lead for the Democratic party in the up-coming Kentucky and Oregon primaries.
Published:Monday | May 19, 2008 | 4:56 PM At least 6,000 people have reportedly fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, which have left at least 22 dead.
Published:Monday | May 19, 2008 | 4:55 PM The police chief of a Northern Mexican city has resigned following a wave of violence involving drug traffickers.
Published:Monday | May 19, 2008 | 10:35 AM Flags flew at half-staff, public entertainment was cancelled and 1.3 billion people were asked to observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning for the victims of the nation\'s massive earthquake.
Published:Friday | May 16, 2008 | 3:30 PM United States President George Bush is now in Saudi Arabia following a three-day visit to Israel.
Published:Friday | May 16, 2008 | 3:29 PM Police in Vietnam said they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan.
Published:Thursday | May 15, 2008 | 3:25 PM A trade union representing South Africa\'s soldiers has reportedly sued the country’s defence ministry, accusing it of discriminating against people with HIV.
Published:Thursday | May 15, 2008 | 3:25 PM The Chinese government said more than 50,000 people may have died in the earthquake that devastated parts of China on Monday.
Published:Thursday | May 15, 2008 | 11:52 AM The government in Zimbabwe has extended the deadline by which the presidential run-off vote must be held to July 31.
Published:Wednesday | May 14, 2008 | 1:04 PM Chinese rescue teams have reached the epicentre of Monday\'s devastating earthquake, Wenchuan county, where an estimated 60,000 people remain missing.
Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2008 | 5:07 PM At least 11 people have been killed and 20 injured in clashes between United States troops and soldiers in Baghdad\'s Sadr City.
Published:Tuesday | May 13, 2008 | 12:31 PM The death toll following yesterday’s powerful earthquake in China has reached at least 10,000 with many more people still trapped.
Published:Monday | May 12, 2008 | 5:08 PM Zimbabwe\'s Electoral Commission said the second round of the country\'s presidential election might be delayed.
Published:Monday | May 12, 2008 | 5:05 PM The Pakistan Muslim League Party has announced that it is pulling out of the government, just three months after landmark general elections.
Published:Monday | May 12, 2008 | 10:15 AM Three top Mexican police officials have been shot dead in as many days while the country\'s fight against drug-trafficking continues.
Published:Friday | May 9, 2008 | 4:05 PM A senior Mexican police official has been gunned down in the capital, Mexico City.
Published:Friday | May 9, 2008 | 4:03 PM The United Nations said the World Food Program will be suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar formerly Burma, because its government seized supplies flown into that country.
Published:Friday | May 9, 2008 | 12:25 PM The price of a barrel of crude oil has reached another record high in both Britain and the United States.
Published:Thursday | May 8, 2008 | 5:13 PM A Colombian army colonel and 14 other soldiers have received prison sentences of up to 54 years for the killing of 10 undercover police officers in 2006.
Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2008 | 2:59 PM 29 people, most of them students, have been arrested in a drugs raid at a university in California.
Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2008 | 2:58 PM The United Kingdom Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said cannabis is to be reclassified as a class B drug.
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