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5 killed, 9 hurt in Sydney boat collision 30 Apr 08, 23:46 ET AP - A fishing trawler collided with an overloaded cabin cruiser that was on a night-time joyride in Sydney's famous harbor Thursday, killing five young people and injuring nine, authorities said. more China opening one of world's largest bridges: report 30 Apr 08, 23:31 ET AFP - China on Thursday will inaugurate one of the world's longest bridges, which will provide an important new route into Shanghai, state press said. more Thousands march in Manila to demand higher wages 30 Apr 08, 23:17 ET AFP - Thousands of workers marched Thursday in the Philippines capital Manila under tight security to demand higher wages in the face of inflation that has sent food prices soaring. more Polls to open in key test for PM Brown 30 Apr 08, 22:59 ET AFP - Polls are due to open in key local elections Thursday amid predictions that the Labour Party could suffer heavy losses that would call Prime Minister Gordon Brown's leadership into question. more Yuan's rise hits China-based exporters: US business leader 30 Apr 08, 22:23 ET AFP - The rapid appreciation of the Chinese currency against the US dollar is taking a big toll on Asian companies using China as base for exports to the United States, according to a top US business official. more Emotional Grant relishes Chelsea's European football vindication 30 Apr 08, 21:55 ET AFP - Avram Grant let his emotions hang out as he insisted the critics should get off his back after Chelsea booked a first Champions League final appearance. more DNA confirms IDs of czar's children, ending mystery 30 Apr 08, 21:12 ET AP - For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne. more Mexico hunts sharks after attack 30 Apr 08, 20:47 ET AP - Authorities used baited hooks to catch sharks Wednesday near a Mexican beach where a U.S. surfer was killed in an attack. more Five killed as boats collide in Sydney Harbour 30 Apr 08, 20:47 ET AFP - Four young women and a man were killed when their overcrowded boat collided with a fishing vessel on Sydney Harbour in the early hours of Thursday morning, police said. more Three explosions, two blamed on ETA, hit Spanish Basque country 30 Apr 08, 20:32 ET AFP - Three explosions, two blamed on ETA separatists, shook the Basque country in northern Spain early Thursday, damaging buildings but causing no casualties, the Basque autonomous police told AFP. more Mexico rebel talks may spur investment 30 Apr 08, 20:23 ET AP - President Felipe Calderon's decision to talk with guerrillas linked to gas pipeline explosions could encourage foreign investment in Mexico at a time when the government is pushing to open the oil industry to private partnerships, experts said Wednesday. more Hiding teen sends text message to foil alleged intruders 30 Apr 08, 20:11 ET AP - A teenager home alone pulled bed sheets over her head to hide from two intruders and sent a text message to her mother, whose 911 call led to the arrest of two suspects, authorities said Wednesday. more 5 French missing in avalanche in Italy 30 Apr 08, 20:09 ET AP - Rescue officials say five French ski-mountaineers are missing after being swept away by an avalanche during a trip in Italy's northwestern Alps. more Three bombs in Basque Country, ETA claim: radio 30 Apr 08, 19:50 ET Reuters - Three small bombs exploded early on Thursday in the Spanish Basque Country city of San Sebastian and a nearby town after a warning call claiming to be from Basque separatist rebels ETA, Spanish radio said. more Israel to display rarely seen scroll 30 Apr 08, 17:55 ET AP - A rarely displayed segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be part of an exhibition for President Bush and other dignitaries attending Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next month, a museum official said Wednesday. more 5 killed in boat collision in Sydney 30 Apr 08, 17:49 ET AP - Police say a fishing trawler has collided with a smaller boat on Sydney Harbor, killing five people and injuring nine. more Jewish woman being considered as Bahrain's envoy to US 30 Apr 08, 17:40 ET AP - The only Jewish woman lawmaker in Bahrain is a candidate to become this Persian Gulf kingdom's ambassador to Washington. more Israeli president takes swipe at Iran's nuclear program 30 Apr 08, 17:35 ET AP - Israel's president took a veiled swipe at Iran and its disputed nuclear program Wednesday, using his Holocaust Memorial Day speech to talk about the danger the world would have faced if Adolf Hitler had succeeded in his quest to build atomic bombs. more Huge archive of Nazi-era documents marks opening to public 30 Apr 08, 17:04 ET AP - A vast archive of concentration camp logs detailing Nazi horrors and other German wartime documents formally opened to visitors Wednesday, more than six decades after it was founded to provide information about the victims of the Holocaust. more Gitmo detainee allowed to contact top suspects 30 Apr 08, 16:34 ET AP - Osama bin Laden's former driver can ask senior al-Qaida suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo for help in his war-crimes tribunal, a military judge said Wednesday, overruling concerns that any communication between the detainees could threaten national security. more NATO warns Russia not to interfere in Georgia 30 Apr 08, 16:09 ET AFP - NATO warned Russia Wednesday to stop undermining Georgia's territorial integrity, after Moscow announced it would send more peacekeepers to two rebel Georgian regions. more Olympics: 100-day countdown starts amid Tibet, torch troubles 30 Apr 08, 15:42 ET AFP - China hailed the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday, but simmering controversies over Tibet and the torch relay, as well as heavy pollution, cast a shadow over the milestone. more African lion on the loose near Ottawa 30 Apr 08, 15:34 ET AFP - A two-year-old pet lion was on the loose in Canada's backwoods near the nation's capital Wednesday, sparking a hunt by police, officials said. more Austria case revives European debate on light prison terms 30 Apr 08, 15:22 ET AP - Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered. more Pakistan coalition parties to hold more talks 30 Apr 08, 15:21 ET Reuters - Leaders of Pakistan's coalition parties made progress in talks to save the month-old government on Wednesday but will meet again on Thursday to try and resolve remaining issues, officials said. more Chilean town giving free Viagra to senior citizens 30 Apr 08, 15:13 ET AP - A working class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because "an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life." more Israel: Soldiers didn't know they were firing at journalist 30 Apr 08, 15:09 ET AP - The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist. more China launches investigation into claims of child slavery 30 Apr 08, 14:49 ET AP - China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most between the ages of 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers, state media said Wednesday. more Crew of Spanish ship home after hijacking off Somalia 30 Apr 08, 14:38 ET AP - Spanish fishermen whose ship was hijacked off the coast of Somalia returned home Wednesday with harrowing tales of being fired on by rocket-propelled grenades and held at gunpoint during a week of captivity on the high seas. more Canada pledges extra C$50 mln in food aid 30 Apr 08, 14:31 ET Reuters - Canada pledged an extra C$50 million ($49.5 million) for international food aid on Wednesday and said it would also allow its money to be used to buy food abroad and not tie it to purchases of Canadian produce. more RFL steps into New Zealand player release row 30 Apr 08, 14:30 ET AFP - England's Rugby Football League (RFL) deplored Wednesday the timing of next week's centenary Test in Sydney between Australia and New Zealand but stopped short of backing Super League clubs who are refusing to release players for the match. more Brown warns of WTO trade talks urgency 30 Apr 08, 14:24 ET AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Wednesday that unless a global trade liberalisation deal was sorted out in the next few weeks, it could take years to strike an agreement. more Iran remains most active state sponsor of terrorism: US 30 Apr 08, 14:00 ET AFP - Iran remained the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism as it tries to build regional influence and drive the United States from the Middle East, a US government report said Wednesday. more Israel moves to shutter West Bank charity it links to Hamas 30 Apr 08, 13:55 ET AP - To Nayfa Shatat, the widowed mother of 11, Hebron's biggest Islamic charity is a lifeline: It schools her daughters and helps feed her family. more Tsvangirai on course for Zimbabwe win, no majority: sources 30 Apr 08, 13:48 ET AFP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is on course to beat Robert Mugabe in the first round of Zimbabwe's presidential election but will fall short of an outright victory, sources close to the electoral commission said Wednesday. more Germany opens huge Nazi crimes archive to public 30 Apr 08, 13:17 ET Reuters - Germany opened the world's largest collection of documents on Nazi crimes and their victims to the public on Wednesday. more Egypt leader raises salaries 30 percent after strike threat 30 Apr 08, 12:58 ET AP - Egypt's president announced a 30 percent salary increase for all government employees Wednesday, a day after the country's largest opposition group backed calls for a general strike to protest rising food prices. more Cuba says tourism industry appears to be recovering from slump 30 Apr 08, 12:53 ET AP - Cuba announced Wednesday that its crucial tourism industry appears to be recovering from a two-year slump, with a 15 percent increase in visitors during the first quarter of the year. more Colombia police correct identity of dead drug trafficker 30 Apr 08, 12:28 ET AP - Police killed one of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords in a shootout, though they initially confused the man with his brother, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. government had offered $5 million rewards for both men. more Sadr City bloodshed kills 925 Iraqis 30 Apr 08, 12:09 ET AFP - Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, an Iraqi official said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to keep up the offensive. more Blaming the victim: Abused Afghan women often end up in jail 30 Apr 08, 12:09 ET AP - Trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her 3-year-old son, Rukhma was handed to an Afghan who raped and abused her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched helplessly. more Quebec Liberals rise as separation support slips 30 Apr 08, 11:55 ET Reuters - Quebec's Liberal Party has enough popular support to regain a majority government, and support for separation has weakened in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province, according to a poll published on Wednesday. more "I made mistakes," Brown says before UK elections 30 Apr 08, 11:14 ET Reuters - On the eve of his first major test at the ballot box, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged that he had made mistakes, but insisted he would guide the country through its economic troubles. more One billion Asians affected by surging food prices: development bank 30 Apr 08, 11:10 ET AFP - One billion people in Asia are seriously affected by surging global food prices, the director general of the Asian Development Bank, Rajat Nag, said Wednesday. more Brazil's Counterattack on Biofuels 30 Apr 08, 11:00 ET Time.com - As food prices soar, the world is looking askance at biofuels. Brazil's President Lula wants to change that more Prince William's Afghan visit gets mixed response 30 Apr 08, 10:40 ET AFP - Prince William's surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan drew a mixed response Wednesday, with some dismissing it as public relations while others praised the future king. more People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' 30 Apr 08, 10:22 ET AP - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. more Food crisis may stoke more malnutrition than famine 30 Apr 08, 09:59 ET Reuters - Global food shortages and higher prices are more likely to cause malnutrition than outright famine, at least in the near-term, the coordinator of a new United Nations task force said on Wednesday. more Pakistan's leaders to meet for talks on restoring judges 30 Apr 08, 09:39 ET AP - Pakistani leaders were up against a key deadline Wednesday in efforts to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf and end a spat that has strained their month-old coalition government. more DNA confirms IDs of czar's children 30 Apr 08, 09:38 ET AP - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday. more Sri Lankan troops kill 34 rebels: ministry 30 Apr 08, 09:04 ET AFP - Two days of fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels across Sri Lanka's embattled north have left at least 35 dead on both sides, the defence ministry said Wednesday. more Forty years on, France still fascinated by May 1968 30 Apr 08, 08:58 ET Reuters - Forty years after May 1968, France is enjoying a wave of nostalgia for the student revolt that rocked the streets of the Latin Quarter in Paris, fuelled by a never-ending debate about what it all achieved. more NATO meets on escalating Georgia-Russian tensions 30 Apr 08, 08:44 ET Reuters - NATO ambassadors discussed escalating tensions between alliance hopeful Georgia and Russia on Wednesday ahead of a meeting with Moscow's NATO envoy. more Russia says identifies remains of Tsar's children 30 Apr 08, 08:37 ET Reuters - Scientific tests have confirmed that human remains found in Russia last year belong to two children of the last Tsar executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in 1918, Russian officials said on Wednesday. more Colombia says it misidentified drug lord slain at ranch 30 Apr 08, 08:29 ET AP - Colombia's government says it misidentified the major drug lord slain in a police raid on his ranch hideout. more Zimbabwe gloats over UN stalemate 30 Apr 08, 08:16 ET AFP - The Zimbabwe government savoured a rare diplomatic victory on Wednesday after the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on how to respond to the country's post election crisis. more Iran students stage hunger strike protest: report 30 Apr 08, 07:54 ET AFP - Seventeen Iranian students have been hospitalised after going on a hunger strike to protest strict rules at a university in the northwestern city of Tabriz, press reported Wednesday. more Study: Israel can remove 10 key West Bank checkpoints 30 Apr 08, 07:40 ET AP - Israel should remove 10 major West Bank checkpoints to give a badly needed boost to the Palestinian economy, a group of Israeli ex-generals and Palestinian officials said in a joint report Wednesday. more Palestinian factions agree to truce with Israel: MENA 30 Apr 08, 07:19 ET Reuters - Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo for talks with Egyptian security officials have agreed to an Egyptian proposal for a truce with Israel starting in the Gaza Strip, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. more 7 killed in Kabul gunbattle 30 Apr 08, 07:10 ET AP - Afghan security forces raided a Kabul hideout of militants with suspected links to the weekend attack on President Hamid Karzai, sparking a clash Wednesday that killed seven people, officials said. more Teenager remanded on terror charges 30 Apr 08, 06:57 ET AFP - A 19-year-old man was remanded in custody Wednesday when he appeared before a London court charged with explosives and extremism charges. more UK's Prince William on secret Afghan trip 30 Apr 08, 06:38 ET Reuters - Prince William, second in line to the British throne, paid a secret visit to Afghanistan to meet frontline British troops, his office said on Wednesday. more Japan's oldest giant panda dies 30 Apr 08, 06:32 ET AP - Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zoo keepers said. more Mauritania captures five al Qaeda suspects in sweep 30 Apr 08, 06:28 ET Reuters - Mauritanian security forces recaptured five suspected al Qaeda militants on Wednesday including a fugitive accused of killing four French tourists, officials said. more Rights group: Zimbabwe's army unleashing 'terror' 30 Apr 08, 05:58 ET AP - A leading human rights group accused Zimbabwe's army Wednesday of working with ruling party militants to unleash "terror and violence" against dissent. more Putin promises Iran continuity in relations: RIA 30 Apr 08, 05:48 ET Reuters - President Vladimir Putin has told Iran's president that there will be continuity in Russia's relations with Tehran, RIA news agency quoted a senior Russian official as saying on Wednesday. more Tibet activist group: China detains scores of Buddhist monks 30 Apr 08, 05:47 ET AP - China has detained scores of Buddhist monks over the past month, a Tibet activist group said Wednesday, a day after six monks were sentenced in the first trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet last month. more WWW inventor says web only in infancy 30 Apr 08, 05:42 ET AFP - The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web's effective launch. more Breastfeeding reduces risk of cot death by third: study 30 Apr 08, 05:38 ET AFP - Breastfeeding a baby can reduce the risk of cot death by a third, a new study published on Wednesday has found. more 'Lollipop' men and women go hi-tech 30 Apr 08, 05:27 ET AFP - First there were speed cameras to catch errant motorists. Now the humble "lollipop" man and woman -- road safety guardians outside schools -- are being used against aggressive drivers. more Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland 30 Apr 08, 05:22 ET AP - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired - and arguably corrupted - millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. more Africa's top athletes inducted in hall of fame 30 Apr 08, 05:07 ET AFP - Africa's top athletes were inducted in a new African athletics Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, on the eve of the opening of the 16th African Athletics Championships here. more A list of most wanted Nazi suspects 30 Apr 08, 05:02 ET AP - The Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of 10 most wanted Nazis, as of April 1, 2008. It was released Wednesday: more Worldwide hunt for last Nazis moves in fits and starts 30 Apr 08, 05:00 ET AP - For Heinz Heister, presiding judge of the court where wanted concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim has been indicted, it's a familiar refrain: What's the point? more Brown faces poll test, with all eyes on London 30 Apr 08, 04:44 ET AFP - Britons vote in local polls Thursday in England and Wales, amid warnings that heavy losses for the ruling Labour Party -- notably in London -- could spell disaster for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. more Myanmar's Suu Kyi detention is "OK," says Thai PM 30 Apr 08, 04:36 ET Reuters - Thailand has no problem with the prolonged house arrest in Myanmar of opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Wednesday. more China train crash death toll rises to 71 30 Apr 08, 04:13 ET AP - The death toll from China's worst rail accident in a decade rose Wednesday to 71, with more than 400 injured passengers still hospitalized following the pre-dawn collision between two trains, state media said. more New Gaza tragedy threatens Cairo truce talks 30 Apr 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - This much is clear: A devastating blast Monday in Gaza killed five members of the same family – a mother and four children. But whose ammunition was responsible has turned into another bitter dispute as Israeli and Palestinian officials each blame the other. more Olympic torch arrives in Hong Kong after activists deported 30 Apr 08, 03:54 ET AP - The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil Wednesday after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in the bustling financial capital of Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival. more Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis 30 Apr 08, 03:52 ET AP - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. more Madeleine's parents cling to hope, a year on 30 Apr 08, 02:58 ET AFP - The anguished parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann insist they have not given up hope, a year after their lives were shattered when she vanished from their Portugal holiday flat. more Five militants blow themselves up in Kabul siege 30 Apr 08, 02:56 ET Reuters - Five suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house close to Kabul's old city on Wednesday, avoiding capture by besieging Afghan security forces, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters. more Security forces exchange fire with gunmen in Afghan capital 30 Apr 08, 02:54 ET AP - Security forces traded gun and rocket fire with unknown assailants holed up in a Kabul house on Wednesday, officials said. more Pakistan's Sharif, Zardari set for crunch talks in Dubai 30 Apr 08, 02:24 ET AFP - The leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition were to meet Wednesday in Dubai with their one-month alliance on the line amid a deadlock over the reinstatement of sacked judges, party officials said. more Philippine army says seizes Islamic militant base 30 Apr 08, 02:20 ET Reuters - About 300 Philippine soldiers, backed by heavy artillery and mortar shelling, overran a base of Islamic militants deep in the hills of a remote southern island on Wednesday, a senior general said. more Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited 30 Apr 08, 01:58 ET AP - In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday. more China rescues 167 children from slavery: paper 30 Apr 08, 01:08 ET Reuters - Chinese police have rescued 167 village children sold to work as slave laborers in a city in the booming southern province of Guangdong, newspapers said on Wednesday. more North Korea heading towards famine: report 30 Apr 08, 00:44 ET Reuters - Soaring global food prices and reluctant donors are pushing North Korea back towards famine, which could see the secretive government turn even more repressive to keep control, a paper released on Wednesday said. more Report says Israel can remove 10 West Bank checkpoints 30 Apr 08, 00:40 ET AP - A joint study by several Israeli ex-generals and Palestinian officials says Israel could remove 10 major West Bank checkpoints quickly. more Bhutan to allow more foreigners, but no bungee jumping 30 Apr 08, 00:02 ET AFP - The insular Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan aims to boost tourists five-fold but will preserve its cachet as an exclusive destination with no bungee jumping backpackers allowed, officials say. more

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