The UN urges Burma to reconsider its attitude towards allowing aid teams into the country to avoid further loss of life.
Lebanon's government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is "a bloody coup".
Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
Former Democratic US presidential hopeful John Edwards says Barack Obama is now his party's likely nominee.
A bomb in a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka kills at least 11 people on the eve of the first elections there for years.
Another senior police officer is gunned down in Mexico City, the fourth in under two weeks.
South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves Zimbabwe without comment after crisis talks with Robert Mugabe.
A mortar attack from the Gaza Strip kills an Israeli civilian, police and medical officials say.
The Austrian man accused of locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years is to be held for another month.
Sailors from the Russian and US navies square off in a sandwich-making contest for Victory Day.
Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada.
Avram Grant believes Chelsea are playing the best football while Sir Alex Ferguson says Bolton will make it hard for the Blues in Sunday's Premier League finale.
World number one Roger Federer falls to a surprise quarter-final defeat at the hands of Radek Stepanek at the Rome Masters.
Global rifts are fuelling the Lebanese conflict
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Russia's military parades through Red Square
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Assets worth nearly $60m stolen under former President Chiluba have been recovered, Zambia's government says.