Mega tremor shakes the world into action
LONDON (AP): GOVERNMENTS AND aid agencies around the globe deployed emergency rescue and medical teams, pledged money and sent aid and condolences to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan yesterday as the country's President General Pervez Musharraf appealed...

Bali suspect slips police dragnet
KUTA BEACH, (Reuters): POLICE QUESTIONED more witnesses in the Bali backpack bombings on Saturday after narrowly failing to capture a key suspect in a series of blasts in Indonesia over the past several years.

Militants slaughter teacher
SAMARRA, (AP): SUSPECTED INSURGENTS disguised as policemen shot and killed an instructor in front of students at a teacher training college in Iraq yesterday, police said.

Villages declared graveyards
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): GUATEMALAN COMMUNITIES buried under rivers of mud will be abandoned and declared graveyards, leaders of the worst-hit towns said yesterday, as they stopped most efforts to dig out the rotted bodies...

Floods lash East Coast
KEENE, New Hampshire (AP): Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes after a weekend of drenching rain washed out roads and flooded homes in states from North Carolina to New Hampshire.