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Sydney Morning Herald -
Britain's Sky News says James Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). Sky, a part of BSkyB, reports that the resignation will be confirmed later on Tuesday.
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Voice of America -
April 03, 2012 UN Advance Team Travels to Syria in 48 Hours VOA News An advance UN team is due to arrive in Syria within 48 hours to discuss the deployment of peacekeepers in a bid to halt violence from the government's year-long crackdown on dissent.
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Sydney Morning Herald -
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won 43 of the 44 seats it contested in parliamentary by-elections, according to official results announced by state television.
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BBC News -
Leaders of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), meeting in Cambodia, have called for economic sanctions against Burma to be lifted.
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gulfnews.com -
By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief Manila: Philippine authorities ordered ships and planes to avoid eastern parts of the country during North Korea's rocket launch from April 12 to 16, sources said.
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New York Times -
OAKLAND, Calif. - The former nursing student who the authorities say fatally shot seven people and wounded three others at a religious college had lined his victims up before shooting them, Oakland's police chief said Tuesday.
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AFP -
By Coumba Sylla (AFP) - 1 hour ago BAMAKO - Islamists gained ground in northern Mali, jostling with Tuareg rebels for control of the vast desert region as the troubled nation's military rulers faced fuel and money shortages from sanctions Tuesday.
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Toronto Star -
Lynn Berry Associated Press MOSCOW—A blaze Tuesday at a Moscow market killed 17 migrant workers who were unable to escape from the metal shed where they were sleeping, the city fire department said.
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Reuters -
By Marcus George | DUBAI (Reuters) - A senior Iranian political figure has spoken out against Turkey hosting Iran's next talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program, in the latest anti-Turkish broadside from politicians in Tehran, ...
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CNN -
By the CNN Wire Staff Mohammed Merah killed seven people in France and was shot dead after a long siege in Toulouse. (CNN) -- The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it has deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more in a crackdown after ...
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CNN International -
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani judge sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters on Monday to 45 days of house detention for living illegally in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said.
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The Guardian -
Ireland's Catholic church has launched an investigation into how indecent images of gay sex were inadvertently displayed on a screen during a speech by a priest at a school in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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The Guardian -
As the Argentinian president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, criticises Britain's continued colonisation of the Falkland Islands on the 30th anniversary of the war, hundreds of protesters gather outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires.
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CNN International -
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Severe flooding in the Pacific island nation of Fiji has killed five people and left about 8000 others seeking shelter in evacuation centers, a government official said Tuesday.
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CNN International -
By the CNN Wire Staff The USGS describes Mexico as one of the most seismically active areas of the world. Mexico City (CNN) -- A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck southern Mexico on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.
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Fox News -
ALAMEDA, Calif. - A battered racing yacht and its bruised crew arrived at a California port Tuesday, three days after a monstrous wave knocked off its steering wheel and injured several crew members during an around-the-world race.
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The Australian -
YEMEN'S armed forces killed 38 suspected members of al-Qa'ida in two days of air raids and shelling of their hideouts in the country's south, a government official said today.
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AFP -
By Stephen Collinson (AFP) - 2 hours ago WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama steps up his reelection campaign Tuesday by accusing Republicans of pursuing an economic policy akin to ruthless "social Darwinism" that is a prescription for decline.
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Reuters UK -
By Tamim Elyan and Edmund Blair | CAIRO (Reuters) - A politician in Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood publicly exposed rifts in the usually disciplined group on Tuesday over its surprise decision to seek the presidency, breaking a promise not to do ...
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NEWS.com.au -
TWO people were seriously injured and three others have been hurt after a small plane crashed into a Florida supermarket. The plane crashed into the Publix supermarket in DeLand, 66km north of Orlando, around 7:30pm local time.
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