Tens of thousands marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to denounce the Philippines’ bungled hostage rescue in which eight Hong Kong tourists were shot dead.
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Memories of Katrina's landfall still vivid on Mississippi coast.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.
Five years after he buried Miss Vera on the streets of New Orleans, John Lee believed he had banished the nightmares of Hurricane Katrina to the safe recesses of distant memory.
Foreign and Afghan troops repelled pre-dawn attacks on two bases in Afghanistan's east on Saturday, with the Taliban saying suicide bombers launched the raids.
China is lobbying neighbours to sign up to a road map for renewed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il is visiting China amid conciliatory words and threats of atomic "holy war".
A Venezuelan military helicopter crashed, killing 10 National Guard soldiers who were chasing suspected drug traffickers in a region close to the border with Colombia, an officer said on Saturday.
We all have our addictions. The actor is hooked on adoration, the doctor on the cure, the alcoholic on the beverage, the addict on the needle, the obese on food.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, decidedly not a conservative newspaper, "Australia is now established as the political canary in the American electoral coal mine."
Isn't it reassuring that the Obama administration has invited Israeli and Palestinian leaders to Washington to resume what the Citizen delicately called "long-stalled direct peace talks"? Mind you, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautioned that "there will be difficulties ahead." Darn it all. Difficulties in the Middle East? How did that happen?
Stephen Harper's Conservatives are not just changing the country's direction (which is their right), they appear intent on reshaping reality.