World News

A search is now on for persons who went missing after a series of earthquakes hit the Great Lakes area of Rwanda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.

64 persons are dead following two bomb explosions in Baghdad.

At least 100 passengers on a boat are feared dead after their vessel sank on Lake Tanganyika off the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Preliminary charges have been filed against Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for huge losses at French bank Societe Generale.

More than 250 students and several of their teachers are being held hostage in a school in Bannu Town, Pakistan.

British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown is denying claims that he considered firing Cabinet Minister, Peter Hain over a donations issue.

Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, resigned after being defeated in a vote of no confidence in the upper house of parliament.

More than 18,500 police officers marched in central London in a protest over salary, today.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) four will require accelerated action in reaching several other millennium development targets.

Israel has agreed to allow one shipment of diesel fuel and medications into Gaza for one day.

Pakistani police arrested a teenage boy who has confessed to being involved in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Ten persons were killed at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.