TROPICAL storm Halong battered the northern Philippines today with powerful winds triggering floods and landslides and displacing about 6000 people, relief officials said
SOME 16,000 people were evacuated to shelters in Tokyo today as troops removed an unexploded bomb believed to have been dropped by the US military during World War II, officials said
AUSTRALIA`S ambassador to Fiji said today he was "deeply disappointed" the interim Government here had rejected his request for Australian police protection in the wake of death threats
