The Burmese state media said a referendum on a new constitution would go ahead on May 10 despite Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which killed 350 people.
Police investigators in Israel have reportedly been questioning the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it has been a disappointing election for the Labour party, in the wake of its loss in the recent council votes.
The President of the United States George W Bush has offered $770 million in international food aid to help ease the effects of rising food prices.
Zimbabwe\'s electoral commission has told an all-party meeting that Morgan Tsvangirai won almost 48 percent in March\'s presidential election.
At least 30 people have been killed in a double suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi province of Diyala.
Police in Kashmir, India said at least a dozen labourers are feared dead following a huge landslide.
The leaders of Pakistan\'s ruling coalition have begun urgent talks on meeting their pledge to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
Colombian police said they have killed one of the country\'s most notorious criminals and drug lords.
Hundreds of people have held an emotional candlelit vigil in the Austrian town where Josef Fritzl kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.
At least 200 persons have been reported injured after three tornadoes ripped through the US state of Virginia yesterday.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, is reportedly setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis.
Zimbabwe\'s rival opposition factions said they have reunited, declaring they have a majority in parliament.
At least 70 people have been killed and 400 injured, many of them seriously, after two trains collided at dawn in eastern China.
Kenya\'s government has reportedly agreed to most of the demands of prison warders who took strike action on Friday.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon is calling for immediate action to help resolve the global food crisis.
The police in Zimbabwe have raided the headquarters of the country’s main opposition party in Harare and have reportedly arrested scores of activists.
The United States Senate has passed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of a persons genetic details.
At least a third of the schools in England and Wales have been disrupted by the first national teachers\' strike in 21 years.
A top Taliban commander in Pakistan has reportedly ordered his followers to stop all attacks in the country.
The United Nations said that it is being forced to suspend its humanitarian work in Gaza because of the Israeli fuel blockade.
Amnesty International accused Ethiopian troops of capturing 40 Somali children during a raid on a mosque last week, and is calling for their release.
The National Union of Teachers in England and Wales said its members would be going on strike tomorrow.
