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A strong aftershock hit already devastated southwestern China Friday, triggering landslides, blocking roads, knocking out phone lines and burying vehicles, state-run media reported.
China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster.
Thousands of Chinese troops rushed Wednesday to plug cracks in a dam in earthquake-hit Sichuan province but experts later said the site was safe. Meanwhile, Chinese rescuers funneled relief supplies to the epicenter of the massive earthquake that has killed thousands and that struck the country on Monday.
Gordon Brown’s housing minister exposed the Government's fears over the falling housing market today when she accidentally left in view a top-secret report as she walked into No 10.
A series of bomb blasts has claimed scores of lives in a popular tourist district of the city of Jaipur in the north of India.
Thousands of people were reported killed today when China's worst earthquake for 30 years struck a densely populated area in Sichuan province.
Gordon Brown has suffered a devastating collapse in his public standing, according to a new survey published in The Observer today which will put his leadership under intensified pressure.
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday in the country's worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.
Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments headed for hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, prompting the world body to suspend further help on Friday.
Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war."
An extremist Muslim cleric, described by a judge as Osama bin Laden's spiritual ambassador in Europe, is to be released on bail a judge ruled today.
Royal Mail's post bag has shrunk by three million letters a day in the last year, pushing its regulated letters and parcels business into a £200 million loss.
Cannabis is to be reclassified as a class B drug, Jacqui Smith has said.
Armed police have been shot at after being called to a square of residential homes in Chelsea, west London. The officers returned fire but it is not thought that anyone has been injured.
Afghanistan’s defense minister confirmed Sunday that a police captain was connected with the group behind the assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai a week earlier and that an army officer supplied the weapons and ammunition used in the attack.
A high-ranking News Corp official testified on Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite television company DISH Network Corp.
Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city.
A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging that a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.
One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.
Bolstered by record crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported huge first-quarter profits and fueled new congressional vows to come up with legislation that would tax windfall profits or demonstrate concern about high gasoline prices.
President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy.
The Scottsdale-based stun gun manufacturer increasingly is targeting state and county medical examiners with lawsuits and lobbying efforts to reverse and prevent medical rulings that Tasers contributed to someone's death.
A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.
The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
Film star Wesley Snipes should spend three years in prison and be fined $5m (£2.5m) over tax evasion charges, US prosecutors have said.
The actor was found guilty in February of failing to submit tax returns, although he was cleared of more serious charges, including fraud.
Prosecutors have now recommended that he faced the maximum penalty for a "brazen defiance" of US tax laws.
The 45-year-old star of Blade was not immediately available for comment.
In court papers filed on Monday, ...
Oil prices rose slightly to near mid-$110 a barrel Friday after slipping from a record at midweek as investors locked in profits from a stronger U.S. dollar.
An unexpected decline in U.S. crude and gasoline inventories drove oil prices to a trading record of $112.21 a barrel on Wednesday amid concerns about inadequate supplies.
But oil slipped back the next day after data from tanker tracking firm Oil Movements showed that shipments from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries rose last week. Oil Movements’ report suggests more supplies might ...
By Heather Stewart
The Guardian
America's mortgage crisis has spiralled into "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression" and there is now a one-in-four chance of a full-blown global recession over the next 12 months, the International Monetary Fund warned today.
The US is already sliding into what the IMF predicts will be a "mild recession" but there is mounting pessimism about the ability of the rest of the world to escape unscathed, the IMF said in its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook. Britain is particularly vulnerable, it warned, as it ...
Authorities stormed the temple of a Texas ranch that's home to a rogue Mormon sect Saturday, as part of a search for victims of physical and sexual abuse, police said.
Police called in ambulances and other emergency vehicles as they prepared to search the polygamist group's temple, officials said.
Authorities wanted medical backup "in case they're involved in sensitive areas that could escalate into a negative reaction," a law enforcement source said. A police helicopter circled the ranch Saturday night.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a ...
A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
The U.S. Defense Department accidentally shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.