'Vote-rigging' in Zimbabwe exposed
Secret footage filmed by a Zimbabwean prison guard shows how a
supporter of President Robert Mugabe rigged votes in his favour,
the British newspaper The Guardian reports.
On July 4 rivals seek patriot gain
UNITED STATES President George Bush and White House hopefuls
senators Barack Obama and John McCain marked the US Independence
Day holiday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism.
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25 killed in Syrian prison riot
At least 25 inmates were shot dead by Syrian security forces during a riot by political detainees at a prison in mountains outside Damascus yesterday, a human rights group says.
Tibet exiles disappointed by China talks
Representatives of the Dalai Lama and China made no headway on the
status of Tibet in formal talks this week, an envoy of the
spiritual leader said today.
Visitor pulls Hitler head off
A man has torn the wax head off an effigy of Adolf Hitler in Berlin, just minutes after a new branch of the Madame Tussaud's waxwork-museum chain opened for the first time to the public.
Thousands flee raging bushfires
TWO out-of-control fires roaring along California's central coast
are chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and
threatening more than 4500 homes.
Protestors rally in Japan
Thousands of farmers and activists from around the world demonstrated in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo yesterday ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.
Trailer trip saves beached whale
A killer whale beached near Auckland has been transported by road
and released off the city's north shore.
Iran warns of shutting Gulf oil
Iran's army chief has warned that the Islamic republic would shut the Strait of Hormuz which controls Gulf oil exports if its interests were threatened.
