to free from the bombed rubble of a Nairobi office block for more than four days has been found dead. The United States is struggling to shake off accusations that it was concerned mainly with its own citizens after the deadly attack. The official death toll has risen to 244.
GOMA, DR Congo - Rwandan-backed rebels spearheading a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are tightening their grip on key towns they hold in eastern provinces of the vast country.
LONDON - European stocks staged a strong recovery from Tuesday`s thumping losses in early trading, benefiting from a late rally on Wall Street that cut the Dow`s losses and a stronger yen.
YANGON - Myanmar security forces stopped opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi while she was travelling in a car to meet supporters in the west of the country.
JAKARTA - Indonesian military chief General Wiranto has said an army board probing the abduction of activists by special forces troops might question more senior political figures.
FREETOWN - The judge in a treason trial of 18 Sierra Leone civilians accused of collaborating with the former military junta continued summing up and officials said a verdict could come this week.
SEOUL - Flash floods and mudslides in South Korea have left 330 people dead or missing and caused at least $283 million in damage.
BEIJING - China`s floods have spread to northern China killing 14 people and leaving 20 missing and more than 17,300 stranded.
LONDON - Princess Diana encouraged her sons, William and Harry, to copy her good works and write comforting letters to a young girl undergoing a heart transplant.
ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan`s Islamic Taleban movement captured a key river port town on the border with Uzbekistan after little resistance from opposition fighters.
WASHINGTON - Hollywood producer and political image-maker Harry Thomason, who advised President Bill Clinton when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, testified to the grand jury probing the sex-and-perjury case.
GAZA - A senior intelligence official vowed to punish any officers found to have been involved in the death of a Palestinian whose relatives say he was tortured in detention.
BEIJING - A court sentenced a Taiwan businessman to four years in prison on charges of espionage.
TOKYO - A strong earthquake shook the prefecture of Nagano, site of this year`s Winter Olympics.
GENEVA - The United Nations Conference on Disarmament launched negotiations to stop the production of nuclear bomb-making materials, but left open the question of whether existing military stocks would be covered.
BAGHDAD - The United Nations special envoy to Iraq will return to Baghdad on Thursday to try to resolve a standoff between the Iraqi government and U.N. weapons inspectors.
LAGOS - A three-month-old baby boy, his brother, mother and father were beheaded in southwest Nigeria`s communal strife-torn Ife region.
CAIRO - Sudanese opposition leaders said that being allowed to hold a meeting in Cairo for the first time signalled a major shift in Egyptian policy in their favour.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Netanyahu told his cabinet that he had decided to boost defence spending to counter mounting security threats.
