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  • Thousands to mourn stampede victims
    Thousands of people are expected to gather Saturday for a memorial service a week after a stampede at a German music festival left 21 people dead.


  • Castro accuses U.S. of torturing spy
    Fidel Castro on Friday accused the United States of "torturing" a Cuban agent imprisoned there, saying Cuba is being pressured to release its spies.


  • Greek military to deliver fuel amid strike
    The Greek government ordered the country's armed forces to help deliver fuel as truck drivers voted to continue a contentious strike, state media reported.


  • U.N. extends Darfur peacekeeping mission
    The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of its mission in the Darfur region of Sudan for another 12 months.


  • Church hosting Quran-burning event
    In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.


  • Rejected Russian boy back in orphanage
    A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents said Friday.
Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media (AFP)

A general view shows the town of Kouqian in China's Jilin province, on July 28. The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.(AFP/File)AFP - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.



U.S. worried more secret documents may be released (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their release, the State Department said on Friday.

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