20 dead, 20,000 left marooned in B'desh: 50,000 displaced and thousands of homes washed away in India: 14 die in China CHITTAGONG  - At least 34 people have died and thousands left marooned and homeless as heavy monsoon rains have triggered flash floods and land slides in South Asia. In ...

TOYAKO, Japan, - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the global economy on the eve of a summit of the world's richest nations. Group of Eight leaders will hold three days of talks, starting from Monday (today), in the ...

WASHINGTON  - After months vowing to get US troops home from Iraq, Barack Obama has succumbed to the war's political entanglements, struggling to explain his plan in the light of recent security gains. More than five years after the US invasion, the Iraq war is now enmeshing not only the ...

THOUSANDS of years later, we can view stone-age art on cave walls, but we can't listen to the stone-age music that would have accompanied many of the pictures. In many sites, flutes made of bone are to be found nearby. Iegor Reznikoff of the University of Paris reports that the most acoustically ...