March 3, 2009 Tuesday
Updated

COTABATO (Philippines) - THREE children were killed and five others wounded when a leftover mortar shell exploded in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, a local official said.

 
5 boys drown in Indonesia

JAKARTA - POLICE say five elementary schoolboys have drowned while playing in a river in central Indonesia.

Won't interfere in graft case

MANILA - PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo will not interfere with an impeachment case filed against the nation's top graftbuster over a multi-million dollar corruption scandal, her office said Tuesday.

Detainee died from police abuse

KUALA LUMPUR - A NEW Malaysian government autopsy on an ethnic Indian man found he died in police custody as a result of severe beatings with multiple burn marks on his body, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

   
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