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Some slept, some stood before deadly derailment in China 28 Apr 08, 23:58 ET AP - Some passengers were sleeping, but others were standing in the aisle waiting to get off when their high-speed train derailed, toppling into a ditch "like a roller coaster" and slamming into another train. At least 70 people died and more than 400 were injured. more Dealing with China's changing image 28 Apr 08, 23:53 ET McClatchy Newspapers - My office assistant just received a packet of T-shirts that she ordered from Taobao, an online retailer. One of the T-shirts reads: Chinese people are not easily bullied! more French envoy in Colombia for hostages 28 Apr 08, 23:48 ET AP - France's foreign minister and President Alvaro Uribe on Monday sought to advance efforts to free hostages held by Colombia's leftist rebels. more Cuba to convene first Communist Party congress since 1997 28 Apr 08, 23:17 ET AP - President Raul Castro announced Monday that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997 - a gathering that could chart the island's political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone. more India's shy 'crown prince' wades into political warfare 28 Apr 08, 23:15 ET AFP - Reluctant "crown prince" Rahul Gandhi is finally getting his hands dirty in India's tumultuous politics after years of dithering about filling the boots of his illustrious forebears. more Report: Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, to reopen 28 Apr 08, 23:08 ET AP - Authorities opened a Buddhist monastery in Tibet's capital to tourists and followers this week for the first time since last month's deadly riots, state media reported Tuesday. more Cuba's Raul Castro commutes most death sentences 28 Apr 08, 23:05 ET Reuters - New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people charged with terrorism. more Blast during Gaza fight kills Palestinian mother, 4 children 28 Apr 08, 23:01 ET AP - An explosion shattered a tiny Gaza Strip house as Israeli troops battled militants Monday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children in new bloodshed that threatened efforts to arrange a truce between the warring sides. more Police: Austrian kids locked in basement, never saw sunlight 28 Apr 08, 22:48 ET AP - The children locked in the basement never saw the light of day for years. A retired electrician has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her in a windowless cell sealed by an electronic keyless-entry system, police said Monday. more Marines launch operation in Afghanistan's Taliban territory 28 Apr 08, 22:48 ET AP - U.S. Marines in helicopters and Humvees flooded into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent province early Tuesday, the first major American operation in the region in years. more Afghans to take over Kabul security despite attack: UN envoy 28 Apr 08, 22:03 ET AFP - Afghanistan's national army will take over the security of Kabul as scheduled this autumn despite a brazen attack by suspected Taliban militants at the heart of the Afghan capital, the special UN envoy to the insurgency-wracked nation said Monday. more Vietnam readies for Olympic torch relay, security tight 28 Apr 08, 21:26 ET AFP - Vietnam's largest city on Tuesday readied for its leg of the troubled Olympic torch relay, eager to ensure a smooth event as some activists announced peaceful anti-Chinese protests. more China restarts trains on disaster line 28 Apr 08, 21:20 ET Reuters - China on Tuesday restarted some trains on railway that saw the country's worst train accident in over a decade just a day earlier which killed at least 70 people. more Top Haitian lawmakers voice support for new leader 28 Apr 08, 20:44 ET Reuters - Parliamentary leaders said on Monday Prime Minister-designate Ericq Pierre was a "technician" with the right experience to lead Haiti's new government after violent protests triggered by rising food prices in the impoverished Caribbean nation. more Mozambique police killing with impunity: Amnesty 28 Apr 08, 20:39 ET AFP - Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International released Tuesday. more 4 US soldiers killed; militants shell Green Zone 28 Apr 08, 20:30 ET AP - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. more Missteps as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez backs farming 28 Apr 08, 20:13 ET Reuters - Deep in Venezuela's sweltering heartland, a gleaming dairy plant sits idle, a testament to missteps that slow President Hugo Chavez's drive to make his oil nation self-sufficient in food. more US military deaths in Iraq at 4,056 28 Apr 08, 20:13 ET AP - As of Monday, April 28, 2008, at least 4,056 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. more US accuses Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq 28 Apr 08, 19:07 ET AP - The United States is accusing Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq. more EU states seek to end divisions on Russia and Serbia 28 Apr 08, 18:40 ET Reuters - European Union foreign ministers will seek on Tuesday to overcome differences holding up greater EU ties with Russia and Serbia. more CAW and Ford Canada reach surprise labor agreement 28 Apr 08, 18:14 ET Reuters - The Canadian Auto Workers union said in a surprise announcement on Monday that it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Ford Canada that includes a wage freeze, and will form the basis for talks with other "Big Three" Detroit-based automakers. more China's Liang Wenbo clashes with 147-man O'Sullivan 28 Apr 08, 17:58 ET AFP - Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled a maximum 147 break at the World Championships here on Monday to seal his place in the quarter-finals - where he will meet China's Liang Wenbo. more Israel's military shows off unmanned, armed patrol vehicle 28 Apr 08, 17:44 ET AP - Israel's newest "soldier" can see at night, never nods off on sentry duty and can carry 660 pounds without complaining. more Reports: Mexico shootout kills 15 28 Apr 08, 17:14 ET AP - Mexico's military posted soldiers around a major hospital Monday to guard suspects wounded during weekend gunbattles that raged across Tijuana. more Former deputy PM Tariq Aziz faces trial 28 Apr 08, 17:04 ET AP - He was the international face of Saddam Hussein's regime - defending Iraq and taunting the West for more than a decade. Now, Tariq Aziz awaits an Iraqi court as the latest member of the Saddam's inner circle to face trial. more War trial of 2 former Serb security chiefs begins 28 Apr 08, 16:33 ET AP - Two former Serb security chiefs went on trial Monday charged with training, arming and directing paramilitary units that murdered and persecuted non-Serbs during the Balkan wars. more Somalia piracy resolution introduced at U.N. 28 Apr 08, 16:16 ET Reuters - Four countries introduced a draft resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Monday that urges maritime powers to fight piracy off Somalia's coast and authorizes them to arrest pirates in Somali waters. more Berlusconi candidate wins Rome mayorship 28 Apr 08, 15:54 ET AP - Residents of Rome have elected the Italian capital's first right-wing mayor since World War II and given Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives another major victory, final election returns showed Monday. more Is an Iranian general pulling the strings in Iraq? 28 Apr 08, 15:52 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat, more Sri Lanka eyeing energy boost from Iran: officials 28 Apr 08, 15:27 ET AFP - Sri Lanka is counting on Tehran to boost the island's energy supplies and ink several other deals during a two-day visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, officials said. more Olympic torch arrives in Vietnam 28 Apr 08, 15:22 ET AFP - The Beijing Olympic flame arrived in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City late Monday from North Korea, an AFP photographer saw, on one of the final legs of its troubled worldwide journey. more Zimbabwe opposition unites, urges Mugabe to step down 28 Apr 08, 14:44 ET AP - Zimbabwe's opposition movement united Monday in spite of long-standing divisions, declaring that it has won control of Parliament for the first time in history and that President Robert Mugabe must concede defeat. more Iran tells Russia of plan to solve world problems 28 Apr 08, 13:59 ET AFP - Iran's top national security official on Monday held talks with his Russian counterpart about a new Iranian package aimed at solving world problems, including the nuclear standoff with the West. more US, France circulate UN resolution to battle pirates 28 Apr 08, 13:57 ET AP - The United States and France introduced a U.N. resolution Monday that would allow countries to chase pirates off Somalia's coast into the country's territorial waters and arrest the sea thieves. more London's Old Bailey criminal court puts archive online 28 Apr 08, 13:45 ET AP - In the scales of justice in 19th-century London, the theft of two coats, two pairs of trousers, two waistcoats, a handkerchief, a pair of gloves and a notebook equaled one life. more Bin Laden former driver refuses to participate in trial 28 Apr 08, 13:22 ET AP - Osama bin Laden's former driver has joined other Guantanamo detainees in refusing to participate in his war-crimes trial, declaring Monday he felt no hope for justice after more than six years in confinement. more Brazil navy ends search for missing balloonist priest 28 Apr 08, 13:10 ET AP - Brazil's navy has dropped its search for a priest who vanished more than a week ago while floating over the Atlantic with a cluster of party balloons, a spokeswoman said Monday. more 7 Somali pirates sentenced to life in jail 28 Apr 08, 13:06 ET AP - Seven Somali pirates were sentenced to life in jail Monday and authorities vowed similarly tough penalties for others in an effort to crack down on a surge in pirate attacks. more Bin Laden driver wants to boycott trial at Guantanamo 28 Apr 08, 12:18 ET AP - Osama bin Laden's former driver has become the latest detainee at Guantanamo Bay to refuse to participate in his war-crimes trial. more Iraq: small fry thrive as Al-Qaeda big fish flee 28 Apr 08, 12:05 ET AFP - The Sunni Arab sheikh smiled happily as a torch in a darkened room lit up a water tank teeming with pin-sized larvae. Now that the Al-Qaeda big fish have fled, the carp small fry are thriving. more Tibetans mark deaths of protesters in China 28 Apr 08, 11:19 ET Reuters - Thousands of Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal, including their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, marked the deaths of protesters during last month's violent upheaval in Tibet with prayers and traditional funeral rituals more Weeping schoolgirls wish happy birthday Saddam 28 Apr 08, 11:17 ET Reuters - Hundreds of Iraqi schoolchildren were brought to the modest mausoleum of Saddam Hussein on Monday to celebrate the birthday of the executed dictator in the village where he was born. more Iranian official warns against importing Barbie dolls 28 Apr 08, 10:58 ET AP - A top Iranian judiciary official has warned against the "destructive" cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. more Iraq says Turkish air strikes "unfortunate" 28 Apr 08, 10:56 ET Reuters - Turkish air strikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq are "unfortunate" and will do little to address Ankara's concerns about security, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said on Monday. more Food crisis sparks role reversal in WTO 28 Apr 08, 10:36 ET AFP - The food crisis is bringing about a role reversal in the World Trade Organization: traditionally liberal major food exporters are now imposing restrictions on exports while protectionist states are pushing for liberalisation. more Israeli fire kills mother, 4 children in Gaza: medics 28 Apr 08, 09:58 ET Reuters - Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip on Monday while a family was eating breakfast, killing six Palestinians, including four children and their mother, residents and medical officials said. more Brazil moves to protect Amazon, but against what? 28 Apr 08, 09:55 ET McClatchy Newspapers - Brazil has entered one of its ocassional panics about the Amazon and what it sees as foreign designs on the immense biosystem. more Scholars run down more clues to abiding Holocaust mystery 28 Apr 08, 09:30 ET AP - Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car. more Iran discusses package of nuclear proposals with Russia 28 Apr 08, 08:49 ET AP - Iran and Russia on Monday discussed the outlines of "serious proposals" aimed at assuring the international community that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful, state media reported. more Israel opens key checkpoint in occupied West Bank 28 Apr 08, 08:32 ET AFP - Israel on Monday opened a key checkpoint near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, partly easing heavy travel restrictions around the flashpoint town, an AFP correspondent said. more Global giants bid for 12-bln-dlr Indian fighter deal 28 Apr 08, 08:01 ET AFP - Global aviation giants on Monday submitted bids to sell 126 warplanes to India -- the world's richest fighter aircraft deal worth 12 billion dollars. more Despite war, Kabul still "not Baghdad" 28 Apr 08, 07:57 ET Reuters - While President Hamid Karzai may have narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in central Kabul on Sunday, in many ways the Afghan capital is remarkably calm and orderly for a city in the midst of war. more Seventy dead in China train crash 28 Apr 08, 07:54 ET AFP - Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. more Authorities probe attack on Afghanistan's president 28 Apr 08, 07:15 ET AP - Afghan security officials hunted Monday for suspects in the attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai during an attack that killed three people and underscored the fragility of his U.S.-backed government. more Mumbai tries paying girls to go to school 28 Apr 08, 07:12 ET Reuters - Girls attending state-run schools in Mumbai are ending the school year a little richer than they began it. more Ukrainian helicopter crashes in Black Sea, killing 19 28 Apr 08, 06:52 ET AP - A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's state gas company crashed as it tried to land on a Black Sea drilling platform, killing 19 people, officials said Monday. more Kosovo police seize weapons 28 Apr 08, 06:35 ET AP - Police stopped a car carrying weapons and ammunition from Kosovo toward Macedonia on Monday and arrested four Kosovo Albanians, authorities said. more Austrian admits 24-year abuse of daughter in cellar 28 Apr 08, 06:32 ET Reuters - A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday. more Iranian, Pakistani presidents resolve pipline issues 28 Apr 08, 06:11 ET AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf on Monday cleared all hurdles over a gas pipeline to India and agreed to sign a deal soon, state media said. more Australian tax evasion scheme exposed 28 Apr 08, 06:07 ET AP - Police arrested an Australian man Monday on charges of running a money laundering scheme that helped clients avoid taxes by transferring $93 million through offshore bank accounts, an official said. more Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims 28 Apr 08, 05:58 ET AFP - Syria said on Monday that US accusations it had been building a nuclear reactor until its destruction in an Israeli air raid last September were as bogus as American claims that Saddam Hussein's regime had weapons of mass destruction in 2003. more Iran discusses "serious" nuclear ideas with Russia 28 Apr 08, 05:50 ET Reuters - Iran has prepared a package of "serious" proposals to help defuse a nuclear row with world powers, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Monday after talks with a top Russian official. more Philippines helps poor with cheap rice 28 Apr 08, 05:46 ET AP - The government said it would introduce access cards for Manila's poorest residents to buy subsidized rice as food prices rise dramatically, officials said Monday. more Black Sea helicopter crash kills 19 28 Apr 08, 05:42 ET AFP - A helicopter crashed into a Black Sea offshore energy platform and blew up on Monday, killing 19 people, a spokesman for Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz told AFP. more US, Iraqi troops kill 38 militants in Baghdad 28 Apr 08, 04:29 ET AP - U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in fierce clashes with militants in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday. more Israeli communications satellite launched 28 Apr 08, 04:25 ET AFP - A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite was successfully launched Monday from a Russian base in Kazakhstan, television footage showed. more Brown dismisses leadership criticism 28 Apr 08, 04:01 ET AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed claims that he would not be able to beat Conservative Party leader David Cameron in a general election, the BBC said Monday. more Kenyan military tortured civilians during crackdown: report 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET AFP - Kenyan army officers tortured more than 4,000 people during a recent crackdown on a rebel group, said a report by a rights group on Monday, which characterised the abuse as a crime against humanity. more Uighurs struggle in world reshaped by Chinese influx 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - King Daoud Mehsut of Kucha, 12th in his royal line and the last man still alive in China to have sat on a monarch's throne, is a man of noble bearing and proud visage. more Is Al-Qaeda Back in Baghdad? 28 Apr 08, 03:40 ET Time.com - A series of bombings rocked Sunni areas of Baghdad over the weekend, threatening to draw al-Qaeda back into the spotlight, just as Iraqi and American military commanders announced limited progress made on another fiery front line. more Japan says torch protests won't affect Hu visit 28 Apr 08, 02:56 ET AFP - Japan said Monday that it did not expect anti-Beijing protests during its leg of the Olympic torch relay to affect a landmark visit next week by Chinese President Hu Jintao. more Palestinians say 4 dead in Israeli attack on Gaza 28 Apr 08, 02:24 ET AP - Israeli shellfire killed at least four people Monday in northern Gaza, Palestinian health officials said, among them two young children and an elderly man. more Train collision kills at least 66 in eastern China 28 Apr 08, 01:19 ET AP - State media says the death toll in a pre-dawn passenger train collision in eastern China has risen to at least 66. more Vietnam to end adoption program with US 28 Apr 08, 01:07 ET AP - Vietnam is ending a baby adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing corruption and baby-selling, officials said Monday. more Intestinal virus kills 19 children in China: report 28 Apr 08, 00:34 ET AFP - Nineteen young children have died and nearly 800 others have fallen ill in a lethal intestinal virus outbreak in eastern China, state media reported Monday. more

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