NEW YORK, Aug 31 —  When 17-year-old student Max Avena visited the site of New York’s fallen Twin Towers, hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors of the deadliest attacks on

BHÂRATPUR (Nepal), Aug 30 — Distraught families in Nepal watched grisly images of mangled corpses on a screen today, seeking to identify relatives as overflowing morgues forced authorities to begin

BIDUR (Nepal), Aug 30 — Rescuers in Nepal and China battled through leg-sucking mud, as well as the threat of rising rivers and a newly formed lake, today to search for

KATHMANDU, Aug 30 — Nepal said today it had begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after devastating floods, after taking DNA samples and marking them so families

REYKJAVIK, Aug 30 — Iceland voted ‘No’ to resuming membership negotiations with the European Union, final referendum results showed today, dealing a heavy blow to Brussels which had been keen to

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (AFP) — Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the

BIDUR (Nepal), Aug 30 — Rescuers in Nepal and China battled Sunday through leg-sucking mud and the threat of rising rivers and a newly formed lake to search for thousands

GENEVA, Aug 30 — One person was killed and five others were wounded, some of them seriously, in a shooting at a rave party in northern Switzerland, local police said

TEHRAN, Aug 30 — Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Sunday called on Muslim countries in the region to unite against the United States and Israel, in a written message

BEIJING, Aug 30 — Chinese rescuers near the Tibet border port that was hit by a deadly mudslide were “moved to a safe location” Sunday, after a new lake was