NAIROBI - Ten aid workers held hostage in Somalia since April 15 have been released, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
TOKYO - Japan was set to approve its largest-ever economic package including more than 12 trillion yen ($92.3 billion) in fresh stimulus in real demand for its beleaguered economy.
TIRANA - Up to 1,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo have poured into northern Albania, fleeing fresh violence in the restive Serbian province.
UNITED NATIONS - Iraq launched a sharp attack on the latest U.N. weapons report, saying it contained numerous "flagrant fallacies and lies," and demanded the immediate lifting of sanctions imposed on Baghdad in 1990.
LONDON - A controversial shipment of nuclear material from Georgia arrived in Britain aboard a U.S. transport aircraft.
HYDERABAD, India - At least 11 people were killed and 30 injured when carriages of a freight train detached and rolled back into a stationary passenger train.
BEIJING - The first talks between rivals Taiwan and China in nearly three years ended with an agreement that Taipei`s top negotiator, Koo Chen-fu, could visit the mainland this year.
PRISTINA, Serbia - Serbia stepped up its defiance of the West over Kosovo with a referendum vote against international mediation and an ambush in which army sources said it killed 22 guerrilla infiltrators from Albania.
HOUSTON - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the United States was hurting the world body`s peacekeeping efforts by refusing to pay its dues.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Linda McCartney, wife of Beatles legend Paul McCartney, did not die in California, as the family`s announcement of her death stated.
