SINGAPORE - Asian financial markets spurted, energised by Wall Street‘s overnight rebound, with Hong Kong climbing five percent.
ARUSHA, Tanzania - The U.N. tribunal on Rwanda found a former provincial mayor guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the Geneva Conventions relating to the Rwanda genocide of 1994.
DUSHANBE - A bus plunged over a precipice in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistany, killing 21 passengers and injuring 10.
BELFAST - Moderate Irish nationalist leader John Hume said the guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland was ending following Sinn Fein‘s declaration that violence was "a thing of the past".
LONDON - Police in 12 countries have made several arrests following a swoop on suspected members of an international paedophile ring based on the Internet.
KUWAIT - A handwritten note containing a threat to blow up the U.S. embassy in the Philippines was found aboard a plane that arrived in Kuwait from Dubai.
TOKYO - In the latest in a series of poisonings that have rocked Japan this summer, cyanide was detected in a canned drink at a supermarket in central Japan after a man said it tasted bad.
WASHINGTON - Vietnamese journalist and writer Doan Viet Hoat, released on Monday after years in a Vietnamese prison camp, vowed to continue to fight for freedom and democracy in his country.
NEW YORK - Wall Street snapped back from Monday‘s free-fall with a rally reminiscent of the bull market‘s most resilient performances, although debate raged over whether the gains presaged an end to the global markets slide.
OTTAWA - Canada said it expects the international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, negotiated last December, to come into force later this month after being swiftly ratified by many countries.
HOUSTON - Hundreds of offshore workers fled for safety and scores of oil and gas platforms were closed down as the industry braced itself for a storm expected to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast at hurricane strength later this week.
FLEURY-MEROGIS, France - A mass trial of 138 alleged Algerian Moslem rebels opened in chaos as many defendants and their lawyers staged a walk-out, complaining the proceeding was unfair and should be delayed.
TEHRAN - Some 70,000 Iranian troops practised attacks on mock enemy positions near the border with Afghanistan, amid mounting tension between the two countries.
LOS ANGELES - A 73-year-old Korean-American cleric held in communist North Korea for three months as a suspected spy said he was doing "God‘s work" there and did not understand why he was arrested.
HARARE - The United States has opened consultations with Zimbabwe to help facilitate the withdrawal of "defeated" Rwandan and Ugandan troops in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
JOHANNESBURG - The former rebel UNITA movement charged that Angola‘s decision to expel the group from a national unity government was the first step towards a full-scale military offensive against UNITA.
LOME - Togo‘s Prime Minister Kwassi Klutse has unveiled a new 27-member cabinet without opposition members, who spurned an invitation to join a national unity government.
