World News

26-09-2011
Everest tour plane crash kills all 19 on board[803 views]

KATHMANDU, September 25, 2011 - A small plane taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest crashed into a hillside near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board.
22-09-2011
Restaurant boat crashes and sinks on swollen Chinese river[1,291 views]

Heavy rains swell the Jialing river in southwest China causing a three-storey restaurant boat to break free from its moorings and collide with another ship before sinking.
22-09-2011
Children filmed in ‘disturbing cage fight’[1,290 views]

Children as young as eight have been filmed "cage fighting" in footage medical experts have called "disturbing".
19-09-2011
Death toll in India-Nepal quake rises to 36[638 views]

GANGTOK, September 19, 2011 - An earthquake rocked a vast swathe of northeastern India and Himalayan states, triggering power cuts and panic as at least 36 people died including in Tibet and at Britain's embassy in Nepal.
19-09-2011
Obama to call for $3.0 trillion in deficit savings[664 views]

WASHINGTON, September 19, 2011 - President Barack Obama will Monday call for new deficit cuts of $3.0 trillion but warn Republicans he will veto any bill that trims healthcare for the elderly without hiking taxes on the rich.
18-09-2011
Thai ex-PM meets Cambodian leader[793 views]

PHNOM PENH, September 17, 2011- Former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra met Cambodia's premier in Phnom Penh Saturday for the first time since his sister took power in Thailand, but an official said politics was not on the agenda.
17-09-2011
‘Mass casualties’ as plane crashes at US air show[1,485 views]

LOS ANGELES, September 17, 2011 - At least two people were killed and 54 injured when a vintage aircraft ploughed into spectators at an air show in the US state of Nevada, officials and reports said.
16-09-2011
Danish opposition wins vote, delivering first woman PM[610 views]

COPENHAGEN, September 15, 2011- Denmark's centre-left was on Friday celebrating victory, and the country's first woman prime minister, after narrowly winning a general election to end a decade in opposition.
16-09-2011
Norway cruise ship fire leaves two dead, hundreds evacuated[1,075 views]

OSLO, September 15, 2011 - Two people died and around a dozen were injured in a fire that broke out in the engine room of a Norwegian fjord cruise ship on Thursday, forcing hundreds to evacuate, officials said.
15-09-2011
China minibus carrying 66 school children stopped by police[1,432 views]

A vehicle designed to carry only a handful of passengers has been caught transporting eight times its legal capacity.
14-09-2011
Life saved by heroes who lifted car[1,368 views]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The university math students heard the crash, saw the smoke and knew they had to act quickly. A motorcyclist had just collided with a car and was pinned beneath the flaming, twisted metal wreckage.
13-09-2011
Cambodian premier says Thai ex-PM Thaksin to visit[1,096 views]

PHNOM PENH, September 12, 2011- Fugitive former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Phnom Penh this week for the first time since his sister took power in Thailand, Cambodian premier Hun Sen said Monday.
12-09-2011
Tears unite Americans on 10th anniversary of 9/11[755 views]

Tears flowed and bells tolled at Ground Zero as Americans marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in a rare moment of unity for a country still shaken by the horrific terror strikes.
11-09-2011
Malaysia’s Mahathir: 9/11 not work of Muslims[1,260 views]

KUALA LUMPUR, September 11, 2011 - The long-serving former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad says Arab Muslims are incapable of carrying out the 9/11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people.
11-09-2011
Medics dice with death in Myanmar jungle warzones[1,185 views]

MAE SOT, September 11, 2011- Risking prison or death if caught by a regime that sees him as the enemy, medic Saw Poe Aye roams the Myanmar jungle helping people trapped in one of the world's oldest civil wars.
09-09-2011
Cambodia jails Briton for 12 years for child sex[3,320 views]

PHNOM PENH, September 8, 2011 - A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced a middle-aged British man to 12 years in prison for paying for sex with three underage girls, one as young as nine.
08-09-2011
Woman survives horror polar bear attack[1,322 views]

THIS is the horrific moment a woman was brutally tossed about like a rag doll by a polar bear.
08-09-2011
Hockey world stunned after Russia air disaster[733 views]

The hockey world was left stunned Thursday after a plane carrying a major Russian ice hockey team to their season-opening match crashed shortly after take-off, killing at least 43 people.
07-09-2011
Texas wildfires claim two more lives, 700 homes[398 views]

The death toll from dozens of wildfires that destroyed more than 700 Texas homes in just three days rose to four after crews discovered two bodies in the charred wreckage.
05-09-2011
Hunt on for killer shark in Australia[1,139 views]

PERTH, September 5, 2011 - A hunt was under way Monday for a shark that killed a 21-year-old man as police praised the courage of two surfers who brought his body back to shore.