China's Premier Wen Jiabao says China must change its system of absolute power and introduce more democracy
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Heavy rains and flooding in Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province have killed some 226 people over the past month, the National Disaster Management Authority said Tuesday.
Scores of people have died after a petrol pipeline explosion and fire in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
At least nine people have been killed and 45 injured in an explosion outside the high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say.
Tokyo (CNN) -- The death toll from Talas, which swept across western Japan, has risen to 38, local authorities said Tuesday morning.
A New York judge has dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has warned.
Hurricane Irene has destroyed about 100 homes in the Bahamas as it roars over the archipelago.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.
One of Col Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam, has appeared in Tripoli and claimed the government had "broken the backbone" of the rebel offensive there.