LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices plunged more than five dollars in New York Tuesday after Hurricane Gustav appeared to have wreaked less damage than feared to Gulf of Mexico energy facilities.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google on Tuesday launched its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Republicans belatedly launch their effort Tuesday to showcase John McCain to millions of American voters, after first trying to quell a storm over his shock running mate pick Sarah Palin.

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's prime minister declared a state of emergency in the capital Tuesday after thousands of his opponents and supporters clashed in the worst street violence here in more than a decade.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday Moscow no longer considered Mikheil Saakashvili as Georgia's leader, calling him a "political corpse" and accusing his regime of "aggression that ended in many deaths."

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told evacuees, anxious to return following Monday's landfall of Hurricane Gustav, they should wait a few more days for damage reviews.

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declared a state of emergency in the capital Bangkok Tuesday, the same day the Election Commission ruled his party committed electoral fraud in December elections. Both actions followed a week of protests in the country.

A bench headed by Justice R V Raveendran has asked senior counsel -- C A Sundaram, Soli Sorabjee and Indu Malhotra (appearing for KPMG) and C S Vaidanathan and Meenakshi Arora (appearing for the complainant) -- to look into the

26-year-old Jafarkhan Palayangara did not understand the deal he had struck with the sex worker in Swindon because of his poor grasp of English, a local media report said, adding he attacked the woman because he was not happy with

Police on Monday arrested a man and held him for hours on suspicion that he was one of the world's most wanted fugitives.

Mr Victor Iyanam, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Akwa Ibom State says the proposed child rights and the anti-terrorism laws in the state would be given priority.

A 29-YEAR-OLD self-confessed satanist of Chibote Township in Kalulushi is detained at Kalulushi police station for allegedly murdering his son on Sunday.

Established strategies and tactics for the effective prosecution of Nigeria's anti-graft campaign were stepped up a notch recently when the new Chair of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Fadira Waziri, proposed thorough psychiatric tests for all aspiring

Violence has begun to rear its ugly head ahead of the Tarime by-election after a senior opposition party official was forced to flee under a hail of stones on Sunday.

Gaborone attorney, Busang Manewe, representing four prison warders facing charges of grievous bodily harm, has applied for the acquittal of his clients.

Fifty- one people claiming to be supporters of Mityana South MP Kaddu Mukasa have been arrested. They were arrested yesterday and detained at Mityana Police Station in connection with demolition of Mityana town mayor Henry Makumbi's residential house and secondary

A security guard and his accomplice are being investigated over an attempt to break into an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) run by Crane Bank on Kampala Road.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has named members of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Liberia.

A man who was allegedly found with forged Sudanese pounds has been arrested. Herbert Kiyingi was on Friday picked up from a city hotel and taken to the Central Police Station (CPS) for interrogation. He was still in detention by

The Tanzania Gender Networking (TGNP) has urged the Government to take legal action against public officials implicated in the controversial Sh72.9 billion Richmond emergency power supply contract.