Published:Monday | June 23, 2008 | 3:48 PM Retired Jamaican and FIFA football referee Winston ‘Dirks’ Campbell is dead.
Published:Friday | June 20, 2008 | 3:34 PM Zimbabwe\'s opposition Movement for Democratic Change says it will announce on Monday whether the party will withdraw from the June 27 presidential run-off.
Published:Friday | June 20, 2008 | 3:33 PM The European Union has lifted sanctions imposed on Cuba in 2003 in protest against the Cuban government\'s imprisonment of more than 70 dissidents.
Published:Friday | June 20, 2008 | 10:25 AM The UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war.
Published:Thursday | June 19, 2008 | 1:15 PM The bodies of four supporters of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have reportedly been found near the Zimbabwean capital.
Published:Thursday | June 19, 2008 | 1:14 PM Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered members of the National Guard Troops to ride on city buses in the capital, Caracas, in a bid to prevent armed robberies and the frequent killing of bus drivers.
Published:Thursday | June 19, 2008 | 7:27 AM UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the violence in Zimbabwe could undermine the outcome of the presidential run off election.
Published:Wednesday | June 18, 2008 | 1:03 PM The European Parliament has approved new rules which could see illegal immigrants detained for up to 18 months or banned for five years from re-entering the European Union.
Published:Wednesday | June 18, 2008 | 12:38 PM The death toll from the southern China flooding has risen to more than 100.
Published:Tuesday | June 17, 2008 | 11:03 AM The price of crude oil yesterday hit a new high of close to $140 a barrel in New York trade despite Saudi Arabia agreeing to increase output in July.
Published:Monday | June 16, 2008 | 1:56 PM Motor company Honda has begun the first commercial production of a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.
Published:Monday | June 16, 2008 | 1:47 PM UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President George W. Bush have warned Iran to accept their offers of partnership or face tough sanctions and international isolation.
Published:Friday | June 13, 2008 | 2:59 PM A South African court banned unauthorised trials of vitamin therapies for AIDS, which some say are a health risk.
Published:Friday | June 13, 2008 | 2:57 PM Flooding from rain-swollen rivers forced the evacuation of thousands of people and has damaged homes and businesses across the US state of Iowa.
Published:Friday | June 13, 2008 | 9:34 AM The police in Zimbabwe said the secretary general of the main opposition party will be charged with treason and faces a possible death sentence.
Published:Thursday | June 12, 2008 | 4:48 PM The Secretary General of Zimbabwe\'s main opposition party is to be charged with treason. If convicted he could face the death penalty.
Published:Thursday | June 12, 2008 | 4:44 PM The US Supreme Court has ruled that foreign suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts.
Published:Thursday | June 12, 2008 | 9:40 AM A plane that crashed five days ago in Chile was yesterday found in a forest in the south of the country, with all nine passengers alive.
Published:Wednesday | June 11, 2008 | 5:03 PM Officials in Sudan\'s capital Khartoum said 14 passengers are still missing after a plane burst into flames after landing yesterday.
Published:Wednesday | June 11, 2008 | 5:00 PM The US House of Representatives has approved a three-year plan to tackle drug trafficking from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
Published:Wednesday | June 11, 2008 | 9:41 AM Medics said at least 28 people are known to have died when a passenger plane burst into flames after landing at Khartoum airport in Sudan yesterday.
Published:Tuesday | June 10, 2008 | 4:57 PM Kenya\'s Roads Minister is among senior government officials feared dead after a light plane crashed near the Masai Mara game reserve.
Published:Tuesday | June 10, 2008 | 4:56 PM The strike by lorry drivers in Spain has continued for a second day as a growing number of petrol stations in the country are running out of fuel following yesterday’s protest.
Published:Tuesday | June 10, 2008 | 12:02 PM Thousands of Spanish lorry drivers have begun an indefinite strike over the soaring price of diesel, which has risen by 20% this year.
Published:Monday | June 9, 2008 | 4:04 PM The water level in an earthquake-formed lake in China is reportedly still rising, despite the creation of a drainage channel.
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