COLOMBO (Sri Lanka) - SRI Lankan soldiers assailed the last slice of land still controlled by ethnic Tamil separatists, killing at least 32 rebels, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD - AN INVESTIGATION into the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore has found signs that Pakistani militants with possible ties to Al-Qaeda were responsible, a senior government official said on Saturday.
The brazen attack by a dozen gunmen on the team and its police escorts as they drove to the main stadium in Lahore on Tuesday raised new fears about prospects for a nuclear-armed country that some analysts fear could become a failed state.
BEIJING - A BOMB exploded at an apartment in central China, killing two people and wounding at least five children at a nearby kindergarten, a Hong Kong-based human rights monitoring group said on Saturday.
BEIJING - CHINA is looking to next month's meeting of world leaders in London to boost confidence and global coordination in dealing with the world financial crisis, its foreign minister said on Saturday.
