Crowd throws bottles, rocks at Haiti prez

2011-07-27 13:31:44

Haitian President Michel Martelly has styled himself as a man of the people, a showy former pop star who waded easily into adoring crowds. So the reception he received on his latest trip to his country's north was a surprise: Protesters pelted his entourage with soft drink bottles and rocks.

Explosion targets UNIFIL convoy

2011-07-27 02:36:06

An explosion targeted a convoy of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Sidon on Tuesday.

78 dead in Morocco military plane crash

2011-07-27 06:26:45

A C-130 military transport plane crashed into a Moroccan mountain Tuesday in bad weather, killing 78 people.

78 killed in Morocco's military plane crash: MAP

2011-07-26 21:30:56

A military plane crashed Tuesday in a mountainous area in south of Morocco, killing 78 people and wounding three others, the official news agency MAP said.

SAfrican man wakes in morgue fridge

2011-07-26 09:19:47

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge _ nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.

US teenage assassin gets 3 yrs in Mexico

2011-07-27 10:20:46

A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old US citizen to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession.

Hezbollah warns Israel against 'stealing' gas

2011-07-27 10:08:24

The leader of Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group on Tuesday warned Israel against trying to steal Lebanon's maritime resources and said it would retaliate against any Israeli attack on the country's oil and gas installations.

Israeli device makes mammography obsolete

2011-07-27 09:43:25

A new device by an Israeli engineer may make the breast cancer detection tools obsolete by lessening the need for radiation and discomfort.

Children abandoned on 'death road'

2011-07-26 08:56:00

Somali mothers are abandoning their children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa.

SAfrican man wakes in morgue fridge

2011-07-26 09:19:47

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge _ nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.

UN donors conference for Somalia famine

2011-07-26 09:16:43

Efforts to save starving Somalis from drought were ratcheted up Monday, with UN agencies pitching for $1.6 billion from donor countries.

Fuel scarce in Misrata after rocket hits depot

2011-07-26 09:02:02

Rebel-held Misrata was running short of fuel on Monday as a fire raged at a storage depot hit by a rocket from Libyan government forces.