Langi, on board our ship the Esperanza, with an update on destructive fishing in his part of the world, and what we're doing about it.

A gang of London teenage girls is suspected of destroying three houses and killing a man with a homemade liquid bomb during an argument over a boy.

Heavy fighting breaks out between pro- and anti-government supporters in Lebanon's central mountains, sending echoes of gunfire and explosions rolling across Beirut, security officials said.

The U.S. launched its first relief airlift to Burma, renamed Myanmar by the ruling military junta, on Monday, after prolonged negotiations with the isolated country's military rulers, who have been accused of restricting international efforts to help.

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Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.

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Search and rescue operations for a light aircraft that disapeared seven days ago in Brazil have ceased having failed to locate the plane. In addition to two local pilots the Cessna 310 was carrying four businessmen who were citizens of

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As last week seemed to herald the beginning of the English summer, so this Thursday - the opening day of the first Test at Lord's - brings the start of "the Season", the loosely grouped chain of events in which

A spokesman for Ineos , who operate the site, said that it was expected that the fire would delay the restoration of full operations at the plant. According to a spokesman from the Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Service said

Gordon Brown is preparing a string of initiatives to help parents, families and the low paid as he launches the Government's fightback against dismal poll ratings and a stream of damaging revelations by senior Labour figures.

World-class Companies like AMD will make their showcase stage at TWTC Nangang this year. Image: Rico Shen .

The Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said that winning the award was a "bloody disaster" for her, and fears she will never write again.

At the Pavilion of Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium during the AutoTronics Taipei 2008, in Taipei Time , the Next Consortium of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) unveiled a brand-new environmental-concept vehicle named "RoboScooter". It was jointly designed by the Creativity

Train companies are "deliberately misleading" passengers over the availability of cheaper advance tickets during busy periods, says a transport union.

Anti-abortion MPs have told Gordon Brown to offer a free vote on all stages of new legislation governing embryo research, which starts its passage through the Commons today. They attacked the decision by ministers to whip votes on tonight's Second

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