A group of refugees from Myanmar who were rescued by Indonesian authorities claimed Wednesday that 22 of their number died after they were abandoned at sea by the Thai military.The survivors told CNN harrowing tales of being captured and beaten that are a

Police shoved terrified youths trying to leave ae nightclub back into the face of a deadly stampede that killed a dozen people, including three officers and a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said.The club's narrow entrance became a death trap as patrons wer

The hardliners hoisted their flag atop the school in Pusht, a town in the lawless Bajaur tribal district, and named it Jamia Hafsa after the girls' seminary connected to the Red Mosque in the capital.More than 100 people died in a week-long siege and subs

EGYPTIAN authorities have banned a 92-year-old Saudi man from marrying a poor teenage girl 75 years his junior.The unidentified Saudi holidaymaker proposed marriage to a 17-year-old village girl and offered a dowry of about $US28,000 ($30,000) as well as

Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an historic apology to generations of aboriginals yesterday who were victims of a "sad chapter in our history."Speaking in an emotionally charged House of Commons, Harper expressed regret and remorse for the horrific

A 13-year-old girl is revolting against a hoary tradition that has crushed many a childhood in Rajasthan - child marriage.Refusing to crumble under social pressure, Asu Kunwar from Sedhana village, near Pokhran, stood up to her father who was bent on marr

Myanmar's military regime has forced cyclone survivors to do menial labor in exchange for food and stepped up a campaign to evict displaced citizens from aid shelters, an international human rights group said .More than a month after the storm, many peopl

IRAQI police in the Shi'ite shrine city of Karbala have arrested five men wanted in connection with 721 murders committed over a period of 18 months."When we searched the background (of the victims), we found that only 11 of the 721 were in fact Baathists

Africa and its development partners must make greater progress in improving child survival rates on the continent, where 5 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2006, the U.N. Children's Fund said Wednesday.UNICEF's inaugural report on the

World leaders must radically change their strategy toward beating poverty now that hunger can no longer be staunched by cheap food, the head of the United Nations farm aid agency said.Many African leaders have said to me: 'Why should we use scarce resourc