Israel threatens action on Gaza Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ask her to halt an Israeli military escalation.
Wolfowitz resigns from World Bank After a bitter international controversy, Paul Wolfowitz has decided to step down as president of the World Bank at the end of next month.
Huge waves hit Indonesia Television footage showed high waves crashing into the tourist island of Bali, parts of the southern coast of Java island and Sukabumi area in West Java where dozens of residents scrambled inland as flood waters flowed into a little village.
Sharif, Bhutto cant return before polls Nobody is returning before the election, Mr Musharraf said in an interview with private Aaj Television aired on Friday.
Hackers used 1m computers Estonia has said that at least 1 million computers had been used to launch an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks on the small Baltic state over the past few weeks .
History sails on...The Swedish ship, Gtheborg, a full-scale replica of an 18th Century East India Merchantman, fires its cannons after passing under Tower Bridge on Saturday for which its road gates were opened especially.AP
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