COPIAPO, Chile: Chilean miners trapped deep below ground mark a grim milestone Sunday -- a full month since a cave-in cut off their escape route to the surface.But officials warned it may take even longer to rescue them.On Saturday, the 33 men for the first time got to speak to their

KATHMANDU: Nepal`s parliament will on Sunday hold its sixth vote to try to elect a new prime minister and end a two-month leadership vacuum in the troubled Himalayan nation.Nepal has been without a government since June 30, when former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal stood down under

GUATEMALA CITY: President Alvaro Colom declared a national emergency in Guatemala after weeks of driving rains triggered landslides Saturday that killed 10 people on a bus and four inside a home."Top priority at present is dealing with this emergency. There are no funds left to deal with

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand braced for more destruction Sunday as aftershocks and an approaching storm threatened an area of the country hit by the most devastating earthquake in decades.Prime Minister John Key said it was "a miracle" no one had died when the major 7.0 magnitude quake

 Sana`a (Yemen): Security forces have arrested 14 suspected members of the terrorist network Al Qaeda in a massive crackdown on the group in the restive southern town of Loudar, the Interior Ministry said early Sunday."Fourteen suspected Al Qaeda affiliates have been captured during a

RAMALLAH:  The Palestinian Authority lashed out Saturday at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his remarks about the relaunching of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.The Iranian president, "who does not represent the Iranian people, who falsified elections and took power by

Calcutta: This Sunday is the 13th death anniversary of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, more popularly known as Mother Teresa, considered “the most admired person of the 20th century.”Thousands of pilgrims and devotees are expected to gather at the Mother House of the Missionaries of

Yangon: Myanmar`s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has advised her now defunct political party to sue the ruling junta for forcing its dissolution, opposition sources said Sunday.Suu Kyi, who is serving an 18-month sentence under house arrest, gave her legal advice to her team of lawyers,

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan:  A US drone strike on Saturday killed eight militants including three foreign fighters in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.The strike targeted a militant compound in Datta Khel village in North Waziristan district, a

DUBLIN: Three people were arrested after protesters threw eggs and shoes at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair when he arrived to sign copies of his memoir at a bookshop in Dublin on Saturday, national broadcaster RTE said.No injuries were reported and the missiles did not hit

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office has said.It comes after a plan to engage militants in a reconciliation process was endorsed by tribal leaders in June.For the past nine years, the Taliban have been fighting to overthrow

SOUTH YARMOUTH: Tropical Storm Earl barreled toward Canada past the northeastern US state of Massachusetts early Saturday after it weakened further and lost its hurricane status.But it still lashed the US East Coast with heavy rains and strong winds.Residents in North Carolina were

Kathmandu: As Nepal`s parliament votes Sunday, for the sixth time in two months, to elect a new prime minister, the indications are that the poll will yet again end in a fiasco with the opposition Maoist party failing to win, especially with horse-trading allegations casting a long shadow

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will meet Southeast Asian leaders this month in New York, the White House said Friday, as the United States tries to bolster its role in a region faced with a rising China.The White House said that Obama would hold talks with leaders of the 10-member

CARACAS: More than 4,500 inmates in three prisons in Venezuela have gone on hunger strike to protest overcrowding and mistreatment, protestors told the local media on Friday.The mass hunger strike, which began Thursday, includes 3,400 detainees at Tocoron prison, in northern Aragua state,

SEOUL: South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan has resigned following accusations of nepotism involving his daughter`s employment, government sources and the ministry said on Saturday."The foreign minister`s resignation has been accepted by the president," said a presidential source

Dubai: "The biggest fireball ever seen" and a "massive 20-storey tower of smoke and flames" was how witnesses described the crash of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai, in which two crew members were killed.The United Parcel Service (UPS) Flight 6 took off from Dubai International

OAXACA: At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico Friday, the attorney general`s office said.The plane left Mexico City and went down as it was approaching the airport at the Pacific beach

Santiago: Victor Zamorano, one of 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in northern Chile, sent a poem Friday to officials working to rescue him.In the poem he describes his experience of being trapped in the copper mine since Aug 5. Zamorano narrates his frustration of waiting for

CHRISTCHURCH: A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused widespread devastation in New Zealand`s second largest city of Christchurch Saturday, with officials saying it was "extremely lucky" no one was killed.Initial estimates put the damage at up to two billion dollars (1.44 billion US)