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Kerosene-soaked man dies after lighting up in Japanese police station 11 May 08, 23:11 ET AFP - A Japanese man who had doused himself with kerosene in front of police died of burns after asking to smoke during interrogation, police and reports said Monday. more Venezuela's Chavez slams Germany's Merkel comments 11 May 08, 22:49 ET Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother's Day. more Australian pokes great white shark in eye 11 May 08, 22:45 ET AFP - An Australian man has described how he escaped from the jaws of a great white shark by poking it in the eye as it dragged him under water. more China trains guides as tourists flock to mountains 11 May 08, 21:33 ET AFP - As mountain climbing booms in China, the first group of guides trained by an expert Frenchman will soon graduate -- part of a government drive to boost safety standards. more Arab League tries to broker Lebanon settlement 11 May 08, 20:20 ET AP - Arab foreign ministers urged warring Lebanese factions to immediately cease fighting and said Sunday they will send a delegation to try to broker a settlement between the Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government. more 11 dead in Haiti ferry capsizing 11 May 08, 19:23 ET AP - An overloaded ferry capsized off the coast of southern Haiti, killing at least 11 people, U.N. and Haitian authorities said Sunday. more Hundreds strip for naked photo shoot in Austria 11 May 08, 19:11 ET AP - The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear. more EU ministers cut deal to end Lithuania's veto on Russia talks 11 May 08, 19:07 ET AFP - Four European Union foreign ministers announced Sunday they had reached a deal to get Lithuania to lift its veto on launching talks on a new EU partnership accord with Russia, with which Vilnius has a string of disputes. more Real-life skull worship inspires new 'Indy' film 11 May 08, 17:53 ET AP - There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth - a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie. more Venezuela's Chavez to buy Chinese K-8 planes 11 May 08, 17:52 ET Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday the OPEC nation will buy Chinese military training planes, expanding recent arms purchases and further cementing a growing relationship with China. more EnCana to split in two with oil at record highs 11 May 08, 17:19 ET Reuters - EnCana Corp, Canada's biggest energy company, said on Sunday it plans to split into two separate oil and natural gas firms in an effort to wring out more value with crude prices at record highs. more At least 20 dead, dozens missing as Haiti ferry capsizes 11 May 08, 16:31 ET AFP - A ferry capsized late Saturday off the coast of Haiti, killing at least 20 people, including five children, and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said Sunday. more Aid falls far short of Myanmar's urgent needs: relief groups 11 May 08, 15:53 ET AFP - Aid groups said Sunday that supplies trickling into cyclone-hit Myanmar were far less than was needed, as the faltering relief effort suffered a new blow with the sinking of a Red Cross boat. more Documents indicate that Chavez helped Colombia rebels 11 May 08, 15:46 ET AP - Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border. more Sudan cuts Chad ties after Darfur rebel attack 11 May 08, 15:36 ET AFP - Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad on Sunday, accusing Ndjamena of backing a first Darfur rebel assault on Khartoum, and slapped a multi-million dollar price on the head of the alleged mastermind. more Neil Young gets new honor -- his own spider 11 May 08, 14:52 ET Reuters - Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honor bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider. more Lebanon army deploys but clashes rage on 11 May 08, 14:03 ET AFP - The army deployed across much of Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah ceded control of west Beirut but clashes raged on in the north and in the Druze mountains as Arab foreign ministers held crisis talks. more Bloated bodies litter Myanmar, forgotten after the cyclone 11 May 08, 13:40 ET AP - As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water. more Iran looks to tap key oil field with homegrown crews 11 May 08, 13:05 ET AP - At this huge oil field in southwest Iran, one building stands out among the pumps and maze of pipelines: On its roof in giant letters, big enough for satellites or pilots to see, are the words: "We can do it." more Debt woes drive thousands of Indian farmers to suicide 11 May 08, 12:48 ET AP - On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die. more Zimbabwe opposition seeks peacekeepers for run-off 11 May 08, 12:37 ET Reuters - Zimbabwe's main opposition group said on Sunday it had stepped up efforts to secure regional peacekeepers for a run-off presidential election against Robert Mugabe after weeks of violence that intimidated voters. more Rice: Israel, Palestinians need to show progress 11 May 08, 12:31 ET AP - The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious successes. more US military orders court-martial for contractor in Iraq 11 May 08, 11:50 ET AP - The U.S. military on Sunday ordered a court-martial for a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army translator in Iraq - the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War. more Facebook activist beaten by Egypt police: HRW 11 May 08, 11:38 ET AFP - Human Rights Watch on Sunday condemned the treatment by Egyptian police of an activist who was stripped, beaten and threatened with rape after using Facebook to back calls for a general strike. more Nepal police detain more than 600 female Tibetan protesters 11 May 08, 10:43 ET AP - Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet. more Is It Time to Invade Burma? 11 May 08, 10:30 ET Time.com - The ruling junta will accept aid only with conditions. Should the U.S. strike to avert a humanitarian disaster? more Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks 11 May 08, 08:37 ET AP - A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk. more Defiant Serbia conducts elections in Kosovo 11 May 08, 07:48 ET Reuters - Serbia underlined its rejection of Kosovo's Western-backed independence by conducting elections in the territory on Sunday, in defiance of the United Nations and the ethnic Albanian majority there. more Signs of normalcy in Iraq's Sadr City amid cease-fire 11 May 08, 07:37 ET AP - Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes. more Tibetan women protest in Nepal, over 500 detained 11 May 08, 07:30 ET Reuters - Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu on Sunday, the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland, officials said. more Serbians, haunted by Milosevic's ghost, head to polls 11 May 08, 07:23 ET AP - Serbs were voting Sunday in elections that will decide whether the nation takes another step toward mainstream Europe or reverts to a hard-line stance reminiscent of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic. more Clashes in northern and eastern Lebanon 11 May 08, 06:58 ET AP - Heavy fighting broke out between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon amid the country's power struggle, security officials said Sunday. more British author Lessing brands Nobel win 'a disaster' 11 May 08, 06:53 ET AFP - British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday. more Chinese man held for threatening on Internet to grab torch 11 May 08, 06:52 ET AP - A Chinese man was arrested for saying on the Internet that he planned to grab the Olympic torch during its relay through eastern China, police said Sunday. more Myanmar regime says 'massive turnout' in vote 11 May 08, 06:00 ET AFP - Myanmar's ruling generals said Sunday there was "massive turnout" in their national referendum, held despite pleas to devote their resources to saving more than a million victims of a devastating cyclone. more State media: Sudan cuts ties with Chad after rebel attack 11 May 08, 04:42 ET AP - President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media. more US backs ceasefire in Iraq Shiite stronghold 11 May 08, 03:11 ET AFP - The US military said on Sunday it supported a ceasefire in Baghdad's Sadr City where the militia of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr cut a deal with the Iraqi authorities to end the bloodshed. more Sri Lanka govt claims victory in key provincial polls 11 May 08, 02:28 ET AFP - Sri Lanka's government Sunday claimed victory in key provincial elections in the ethnically-mixed east of the island, saying the win is a major boost for its war against the Tamil Tigers. more Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 11 May 08, 02:24 ET AP - Sitting in a Mexico City office, dressed in a pressed white shirt, Gerardo Sanchez seems a world away from his herds of goats and fields of beans. more Clashes with Darfur rebels reported near Sudan's capital 11 May 08, 01:55 ET AP - Hundreds of rebels from war-ravaged Darfur clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year-old conflict. more WITNESS: A drive, in Dubai 11 May 08, 00:14 ET Reuters - Amran Abocar is Canadian treasury editor, based in Toronto. A Somali-Canadian citizen, she has worked for Reuters since 1998 and is temporarily based in Dubai. In the following story she recounts experiences of the roads in the most congested city in the Middle East. more China launches jumbo jet company 11 May 08, 00:09 ET AP - China has established a homegrown company to make passenger jumbo jets, state media reported Sunday - a step forward in the country's quest to become less dependent on Boeing and Airbus. more

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