A British soldier has died after being seriously injured by a blast in Afghanistan.

Southern California went back to work as usual today after being shaken by a strong earthquake.

Murdered honeymooner Catherine Mullany begged for help after she and her husband were shot in their Caribbean holiday cottage, a witness said today.

Comedian Jerry Lewis was detained by police in Las Vegas late last week when airport screeners found an unloaded gun in his baggage, authorities have said.

Zimbabwe is knocking 10 zeros off its hyper-inflated currency to make 10 billion dollars become one dollar.

A Briton has been found stabbed to death in Saudi Arabia.

A reward of more than £60,000 was offered today for information leading to the conviction of the gunman who killed British bride Catherine Mullany in Antigua.

The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today said he will not run in his party's primary election in September.

Mariam Moussa appeared almost catatonic in her grief yesterday, seated immobilised on a sofa, her eyes fixed on the "martyr" poster she was clutching of her ten year old son, killed by an Israeli bullet the previous evening. "Since she heard the news she didn't say anything and she didn't eat or drink anything" said Isma Amireh, 36, a family friend.

The whole world now knows that something special is coming at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Anne Vollen jokes that when she began running her own business from her San Francisco home, "the backyard was soon more neglected than my husband and children".

Helicopters desperately needed by peacekeepers in Darfur are flying in air shows and sitting in hangars across Europe, according to a new report.

For sale: 15th-century chateau in central France, recently restored, 43 rooms, 30 acres, many special features, including a glass sentry box once occupied by presidential bodyguards. €3m, ono.

Talks between Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC aimed at resolving the political crisis will resume on Sunday, according to the South African President Thabo Mbeki.

Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted fugitives, makes his long-awaited first court appearance today following a dead-of-night secret transfer to a UN jail cell in The Hague.

Turkey's highest court pulled the country back from the brink when it narrowly rejected calls for the ruling party to be shut down and its leaders banned from politics for allegedlyundermining the secular state.

Spain has seen the future and it is slow, dim and uncomfortable. A swingeing series of energy-saving measures announced by the Spanish government may be a foretaste of the kind of policies which will be forced upon an energy-hungry industrial world in the coming decades.

Clark Rockefeller used at least four aliases, claimed he bought a yacht using $300,000 (£150,000) worth of gold bullion and let his ex-wife think he was a part of the famous oil family who share his name. Yesterday, it emerged that the man dubbed "Mr Crockefeller" may not even have had a valid social security number.

Ehud Olmert finally bowed to the steadily mounting pressure arising from corruption and fraud allegations against him last night by announcing his resignation after his party chooses a new leader in just over six weeks.

Many politicians talk from time to time of the need to make sacrifices but few mean it quite so literally as Kishor Samrite.

The Prime Minister of Antigua called for Scotland Yard to help solve the murder of British bride Catherine Mullany and the shooting of her husband today.

It's strange and rather unsettling how being in a certain part of the world ensures that you keep your eyes open for some things but shut yourself off from others.

Police in Antigua are questioning six suspects over the murder of a British doctor shot dead on her honeymoon, according to local media reports today.

Russian explorers plunged to the bottom of the world's deepest lake today in a show of Moscow's resurgent ambitions to set new records in science.

A seven-year-old American girl living in the UK with her mother has vanished during a supervised visit to the US to see her father.

Marathon talks for a new global trade deal collapsed today after a clash over agriculture between the United States, the world's biggest economy, and emerging heavyweights.

A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli gunfire during a confrontation between troops and stone-throwing youths in a West Bank village, according to medics and witnesses.

Police believe an American man who is on the run after kidnapping his seven-year-old daughter while she was visiting him in the US from her home in London has taken her aboard his yacht and is fleeing to the Bahamas or South America.

Carla B says that she would like to be considered as the new Jackie K. France's first lady, who is still Italian and not yet French, says in an interview this week that her principal role model is an American, Jackie Kennedy.

Russian scientists travelling in twin mini-submarines yesterday reached the bottom of Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. The daring underwater mission lasted five hours and attempted to set a new world record for a manned dive in freshwater.