The fatal clashes began after the Ethiopian troops moved into the northern Huriwaa neighborhood early Saturday but encountered heavy resistance from the insurgents.
In his homily according to CNN news reports, the Pope told celebrants that "authority" and "obedience" might be a "stumbling stone" in a society "that rightly places a high value on personal freedom," but that true freedom can only be
Top officials in Nepal have given its security personnel including soldiers and police guarding the slopes of Mount Everest permission to shoot the protesters.
ROME (AFP) - Oil-producing countries have rejected calls to raise output amid record prices -- five times higher in as many years -- saying the rise in demand was artificial.
BERLIN (AFP) - German prosecutors are investigating 270 suspects as the Siemens corruption probe takes on a truly international dimension, according to a German press report to appear Monday.
ACCRA (AFP) - A warning from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the possible consequences of the rise in global food prices, together with the plight of the world's poorest nations, dominated the start of a major UN trade conference
NEW YORK (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI paid a solemn visit Sunday to the site of the attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York before celebrating a huge mass at Yankee Stadium to close a historic US visit.
Mr. Prescott, who stood down as deputy prime minister in June after a 10-year stint, said stress brought on the disorder when he was a shadow cabinet member in the 1980s, with the condition degenerating after the Labour Party came
Sergeant Trey Corrales is charged with premeditated murder and could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted in the trial, which is expected to start Wednesday.
The son of the new chief of the Dutch military and another Dutch soldier serving with NATO-led forces were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Friday.
Mr. Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday in New Orleans for his fourth and final North American Leaders' Summit.
Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change, also says key members of the opposition have been arrested along with more than 400 opposition supporters.
Mr. Obama also paid the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting a backhanded compliment. "Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," he told an audience in Reading, Pa. "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."
Reaching to the capital city of Iraq, Rice said that she is looking for a faster political reconciliation as well as support U.S. citizens facing attacks in their well guarded "Green Zone."
Citibank, N. A. Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Post Office on Sunday signed a correspondent network arrangement to help facilitate payments for the banks clients, specially the remittances of Bangladeshis working abroad.
Twenty-five soldiers and policemen have arrived and established several camps on the mountain with logistics and mountaineering equipment to prevent any activities against China, Nepal's Home Ministry spokesman Mod Raj Dotel told Kantipur news.
In Nan province, the villagers ate soup containing the fish balls at a funeral. After the funeral, guests started vomiting, complaining of numbness in the tongue and shortness of breath.
The torch arrived from Bangkok on board a chartered plane after completing its Thai leg of the tour on Saturday without any reported incident. The Olympic flame was taken to a luxury hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur and will stay
