A powerful aftershock has struck north-east Japan, a month after a violent quake led to a devastating tsunami.
At least three militants have been killed in an attack on a police training centre outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, witnesses say
Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has arrived in Britain and has declared he is leaving Moammar Gadhafi's government.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has repeated his strong opposition to putting any American forces in Libya.
Obama outlined his strategy after spending days explaining the U.S.-led military action in Libya, where fighting, accompanied by unrest elsewhere in the Arab world, has helped push U.S. gasoline prices toward $4 a gallon.
Police in Austria have arrested a man suspected of robbing banks while wearing a mask of US President Barack Obama.
The US unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.9% in February, down from 9% the month before.
BANGKOK — A severe earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck a sparsely populated mountain area in the Golden Triangle region of northeastern Myanmar Thursday, but although the tremors were felt over a wide radius, initial reports of damage and injuries were light.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is to be buried in a cemetery just outside Los Angeles, a day after her death
He was convicted at an earlier hearing of raping an employee in the 1990s when he was tourism minister, and of later sexual offences while he was president.