30 Aug 10 | A 13-year-old motorcycle racer was run over and killed on Sunday after falling off his bike during a warm-up lap at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
30 Aug 10 | The body of an American mountain climber has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains in Canada's western Alberta province 21 years after he disappeared.
30 Aug 10 | President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, has praised the city's resilience and pledged support for rebuilding "until the job is done".
30 Aug 10 | A BESTSELLING Indian author has branded the Delhi Commonwealth Games the biggest and most blatant exercise in corruption since the country won independence six decades ago.
30 Aug 10 | The first pictures have been released of David and Samantha Cameron's baby, Florence Rose Endellion, born last week during a family holiday in Cornwall.
30 Aug 10 | JAKARTA: A volcano erupted spectacularly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra early yesterday morning, sending plumes of ash, sand and steam 1500 metres into the sky and prompting the evacuation of 12,000 nearby residents.
30 Aug 10 | LONDON: Tony Blair sees himself as a visionary who first recognised the terrorist threat from Islamic fundamentalists - and prolonged his time as British prime minister because the Bush administration had ''grave doubts'' about Gordon Brown, his autobiography is expected to reveal.
30 Aug 10 | THATTA, Pakistan: Troops and workers are battling to save the deserted southern city of Thatta after most of its 300,000 people fled advancing floods.
30 Aug 10 | NEW ORLEANS: In the days after Hurricane Katrina left much of New Orleans in flooded ruins, the city was awash in tales of violence and bloodshed.
30 Aug 10 | COPIAPO, Chile: Rescuers will begin today the long task of drilling a shaft to rescue 33 miners trapped deep underground, as officials draft an accelerated rescue plan.
30 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The cable TV talk host Glenn Beck has turned evangelist, exhorting Americans to turn back to God and to reclaim their country at a rally in Washington's hallowed National Mall that, in part, appropriated the memory of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
30 Aug 10 | KABUL: One of Afghanistan's most senior prosecutors says the President, Hamid Karzai, fired him after he repeatedly refused to block corruption investigations at the highest levels of the government.
29 Aug 10 | LOS ANGELES: Leonardo DiCaprio has been granted a temporary restraining order against a woman he said had claimed to be his wife and carrying his baby.
29 Aug 10 | BEIJING: At least four Tibetans may have been killed and 30 hurt when Chinese police reportedly fired on crowds protesting against the expansion of mining blamed for environmental damage.
29 Aug 10 | BEIJING: At least eight people were killed and one was left missing as heavy rains triggered fresh floods in north-east China on the border with North Korea, state media reported.
29 Aug 10 | CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico: An official investigating the massacre of 72 migrants in north-eastern Mexico has gone missing, along with a police officer, as more bodies were identified and two car bombs shook the region.
29 Aug 10 | HAVANA: Fidel Castro says al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a CIA agent who always popped up when former president George Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents posted on the internet prove it.
29 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama declared that the war in Iraq was ending and pledged to help veterans cope with their return to civilian life, as he prepared to mark the transition of the American mission from combat to training.
29 Aug 10 | Paris Hilton has been arrested on a cocaine charge in Las Vegas.
29 Aug 10 | COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan maid recovering from surgery to remove 19 nails from her body told doctors her Saudi employer had heated the nails before hammering them into her body.
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