Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition has won more than a third of seats in legislative elections, retaining its veto power over major legislation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been dead for years and replaced by a number of look-alikes, a Japanese academic claims.
A former fighter pilot is set to become the first person to fly across the English Channel with "home-made" jet-powered wings on his back.
Hurricane Ike has taken aim at Cuba after leaving 20 people dead in Haiti, where the death toll from a succession of storms in the past few weeks now tops 600.
On the eve of an EU shuttle mission, Georgia's president says he is confident of regaining two breakaway provinces with the help of "the rest of the world."
The kidnappers of an Australian photographer and two other journalists in Somalia are demanding a $US2.5m ($A3.08m) ransom, a traditional chief says.
Barack Obama and John McCain have feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform as their showdown roars into its final stretch.
Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders are fading, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in a north Cairo shantytown.
A key bridge in Haiti has collapsed cutting off the city of Gonaives from aid, as at least 20 people were killed in the latest hurricane, officials say.
The death toll in a suicide blast in Pakistan has reached 35, officials say, as the country prepares for the Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
The owner of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana died are demanding the car wreckage be returned — so they can sell it for up to $2.2 million.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for fresh elections if deadlocked power-sharing talks do not reach a breakthrough.
Police have charged three more male teenagers with murdering 14-year-old Shaquille Smith in east London last weekend — the 25th teenager to die violently in the capital this year.
Britain will continue to probe the 30-year-old "umbrella" killing of Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov despite Sofia's formal closure of the file on the infamous murder, Scotland Yard says.
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