NALUT/BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Libya’s rebels say their military chief was shot dead in an incident that remains shrouded in mystery and may point to deep divisions within the movement trying to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The uphill struggle of Guatemala’s ruling leftists to field a candidate puts the military establishment on the verge of regaining the presidency just as probes into the country’s brutal civil war begin.
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – A New York City hospital has stopped asking many patients to dig out health insurance cards and fill in endless forms, instead identifying them by scanning the unique lattice of veins in their palm.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have found a flu “super antibody” called FI6 that can fight all types of influenza A viruses that cause disease in humans and animals and say their discovery may be a turning point in the development of new flu treatments.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (Reuters) – Alaska scientists have discovered the fossil of a rare, prehistoric marine reptile that is likely the most complete remnant of the creature ever found in North America.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top Republicans and Democrats worked behind the scenes yesterday on a compromise to avert a crippling U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Trimming U.S. funding to the World Bank and other global lenders would reduce American influence in developing countries and give China a competitive edge, lawmakers were told yesterday.
LUSAKA, (Reuters) – At least 33 people were killed in Zambia yesterday when a bus smashed into a truck about 300 km (180 miles) east of the capital Lusaka, police said.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian family stopped a wedding after discovering the groom was a woman, only for an ex-boyfriend to save their blushes by stepping in to marry the bride.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress and world markets faced more uncertainty yesterday as Republican leaders delayed action on a plan to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit, narrowing the chances for a deal to avert a debt default.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The main global grouping of gays and lesbians, ILGA, has been formally recognised by the United Nations against strong opposition from African and Islamic countries, according to a U.N.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A court in Mexico yesterday sentenced a 14-year-old U.S.
RABAT, (Reuters) – At least 78 people were killed yesterday when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
(Reuters) – Western security agencies were most likely behind the killing of an Iranian scientist in an operation that underlines the myriad complications in the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, analysts say.
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.
ROME (Reuters) – Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa, UN aid officials said yesterday.
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late yesterday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia, but local Serbs resisted the move as ethnic tensions rose sharply.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers failed to achieve a budget breakthrough and instead worked on rival plans yesterday in an impasse that heightened prospects for a catastrophic U.S.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik said he killed 93 people to spark a “revolution” against the multiculturalism he believed was sapping Europe’s heritage, and experts say a frank debate about immigration may be the best way to prevent similar explosions of violence.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s website yesterday that he appeared as a “crazy man” and attacked her when she entered his room.
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