ROME - A GERMAN man accused of abandoning the three children of his girlfriend in a northern Italian pizzeria tried to hang himself in prison on Saturday and was in critical condition, police and news reports said.
WASHINGTON - THE US should build 100 more nuclear plants rather than spend 'billions in subsidies' for renewable energy if it is truly committed to lowering electric bills and having clean air, the Republicans say.
MOGADISHU - ROUGH seas in the coming months in the strategic waterways linking Europe and Asia may cut pirate attacks as the monsoon season's choppy waters trounces their tiny skiffs, analysts and pirates say.
TEHERAN - US-IRANIAN reporter Roxana Saberi, who has been handed an eight-year jail sentence on charges of espionage, has been on hunger strike for the past five days, her father told AFP on Saturday.
