Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail.
Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist
party in Pakistan, the latest violent incident in a bloody
election campaign and one that set off a war of words between
two major opposition parties.
A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost
consciousness ploughed through a small-town parade of hiking
enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia, injuring dozens of
people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals,
authorities said.
Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird
flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from
131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said
today.
Large crowds of anti-gay protesters broke up homosexual
rights rallies in Georgia and Russia today, underlining deep
hostility in the former Soviet bloc.
