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Boat sinks off Bangladesh; 50 missing
Nov 25 2007 11:44PM (CT)
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) - More than 50 people were missing after a boat _ possibly being ferried by human traffickers _ sank Sunday off a southern Bangladesh island bordering Myanmar waters, a police official said.
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Sharif back in Pakistan from exile
Nov 25 2007 10:58PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned from exile Sunday to an ecstatic welcome from thousands of supporters and immediately stepped up the pressure on U.S.-backed military ruler Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule.
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Sharif back in Pakistan from exile
Nov 25 2007 10:58PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned from exile Sunday to an ecstatic welcome from thousands of supporters and immediately stepped up the pressure on U.S.-backed military ruler Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule.
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Quakes rattle Indonesia, 1 dead
Nov 25 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Two strong earthquakes that struck eastern Indonesia overnight killed at least one person and injured 45 other people, a senior health ministry official said Monday. Dozens of buildings were reportedly destroyed or damaged.
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Georgia's leader steps down
Nov 25 2007 7:17PM (CT)
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Mikhail Saakashvili stepped down Sunday as president to start campaigning for elections as demonstrators rallied to demand that authorities put a top independent TV station back on air.
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1 killed in bombings in northeast India
Nov 25 2007 3:21PM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - A string of bombings killed one person and wounded 15 others Sunday in northeastern India's insurgency-ravaged Assam state, police said.
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Dozens of Taliban said killed
Nov 25 2007 6:48AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A provincial police official said Sunday that airstrikes nearly 70 Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
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Bodies sought in Bangladesh bridge wreck
Nov 25 2007 6:05AM (CT)
KALAPARA, Bangladesh (AP) - Rescuers struggled to shift massive concrete slabs Sunday in their search for those feared trapped when a bridge partially collapsed under the weight of thousands of cyclone survivors stampeding for food in southern Bangladesh.
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Official: 5 Singaporean bodies found
Nov 25 2007 4:13AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The bodies of five Singaporean men who went missing when their boat capsized after a holiday race were pulled out of a Cambodian river Sunday, officials said. A sixth body, that of a Cambodian rower, was also found.
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Official: 5 Singaporean bodies found
Nov 25 2007 4:13AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The bodies of five Singaporean men who went missing when their boat capsized after a holiday race were pulled out of a Cambodian river Sunday, officials said. A sixth body, that of a Cambodian rower, was also found.
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Official: 5 Singaporean bodies found
Nov 25 2007 4:13AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The bodies of five Singaporean men who went missing when their boat capsized after a holiday race were pulled out of a Cambodian river Sunday, officials said. A sixth body, that of a Cambodian rower, was also found.
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Fire kills 5 in Bangladesh slum
Nov 25 2007 12:47AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A fire raced through an overcrowded slum in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, killing five people and leaving thousands homeless, a fire official said Sunday.
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