A roadside blast killed one NATO soldier and wounded eight others in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Sunday, but did not disclose the nationality of the slain and wounded soldiers. more »
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has appeared on television holding a copy of Saturday's newspaper and ridiculing rumours that he had died following stomach surgery in July. more »
President Vicente Fox of Mexico has ordered federal police to the resort city of Oaxaca after gunbattles Friday left an American journalist and two others dead. more »
At least four people died in Bangladesh Saturday during a second day of clashes between political opponents in a dispute over who will run a caretaker government. more »
There was a second day of rioting and vehicle burning by mobs of angry youth in France, marking the first anniversary of riots last year sparked by the death of two North African teenagers fleeing police in a suburb of Paris. more »
An American teacher, who persuaded a U.S. court to let him serve probation in Canada after pleading guilty of sexual abuse, has been freed by Immigration Canada. more »
U.S. health officials say it's safe to assume the tainted E. coli spinach outbreak is over given that a month has passed without any new incidents of illness. more »
The billionaire software engineer set to become the next space tourist, Charles Simonyi, said he's been interested in space since his boyhood in the Soviet Union.
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