TWO weeks of protests against China`s rule of Tibet have left about 130 people dead, an exiled Tibetan leader says as the unrest threatened to overshadow the lighting of the Olympic torch
PAKISTAN`S National Assembly has elected as prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto`s party, five weeks after it won a general election
MARINE divers are racing to save 18 Ukrainian sailors believed to be trapped on the ocean floor in their overturned ship after two vessels collided off Hong Kong
Medical `miracle` ... the bar crashed through the car`s bonnet and dashboard before hitting the 23-year-old / AFP