Polls close in Guinea-Bissau, where a new leader is being elected four months after soldiers killed President Vieira.
Source:Guinea-Bissau votes for president
Poverty in Gaza is at an alarming level and residents lack basic materials for reconstruction, the Red Cross says.
Source:Gaza residents 'live in despair'
As Delhi prepares for the Commonwealth Games in 2010, Sam Miller discovers how the ancient city is changing at breathtaking speed.
Source:Secret parks and forgotten ruins
Islamist militiamen in Somalia stone to death a man accused of raping and murdering a woman in a town south of Mogadishu.
Source:Somalian 'killer' stoned to death
A move to open KGB archives divides Ukrainians
Source:Facing the past
Iran seems quieter, but the crisis may not be over
Source:End of conflict?
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal is to hear testimony from one of only three living survivors of Tuol Sleng prison.
Source:Khmer Rouge survivor to testify
US commander wraps up Afghan ‘listening tour’
Source:All ears
Brazil ends the search for bodies from the crashed Air France jet, but the hunt for the black boxes goes on.
Source:Search ends for Air France dead
Interim President Roberto Micheletti imposes a curfew in Honduras, hours after the removal of Manuel Zelaya.
Source:New Honduran leader sets curfew
Besides leaving a musical legacy, Michael Jackson orphaned an array of exotic pets with some of them unaccounted for and even his beloved chimpanzee Bubbles depending on donations. In what was once seen mostly as a harmless eccentricity, Jackson at…
Source:Questions mount over Jackson animal kingdom
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Source:Local baseball schedules
Undaunted, South Vietnam sent marines to the Paracels to occupy four islets in April 1959…In 1970 and 1971, the Philippines occupied three islets of the Spratlys. In July 1971, the Filipino Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged protests with Taipei against…
Source:China Post: Sovereignty over the Spratlys II
A sea of blue covered Garrison Grounds in Halifax Saturday morning as 500 Canadian navy men in uniform paraded around the field in celebration…The Queen’s Colour is a ceremonial flag presented to the navy on behalf of the Royal family…
Source:Daily News, Halifax: Thousands hit Citadel Hill for Queen's Colour ceremony
A reporter named Isaac Vuni, who frequently covers parliamentary debates and other developments in South Sudan’s capital city, was detained by police for five days, he said. Mr. Vuni, whose writings appear in the Sudan Tribune, said that he was…
Source:Journalist was detained in Juba