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At least 13 people have been killed and some 50 injured after a freight train carrying gas derailed and exploded in northern Italy, officials say.
The carriages jumped from the tracks and crashed into several homes, setting off an inferno in the town of Viareggio in the middle of the night.
Several of the victims died when [...]

The UN secretary-general is to visit Myanmar on a trip aimed at urging the country’s ruling generals to adopt political reforms and free all political prisoners.
Ban Ki-moon is to arrive on Friday, after accepting an invitation from Myanmar’s military government, UN officials have said.
His visit follows a two-day trip to the country last week by [...]

Japan’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level in five years as companies continue to sack workers amid the country’s worst recession on record.
Government data released on Tuesday showed the jobless rate rose to 5.2 per cent – a level last seen in September 2003.
The unemployment level, which was slightly worse than an average [...]

Iraqi forces have assumed formal control of the capital, Baghdad, and other cities, six years after US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq.
US troops began withdrawing from the country’s major cities and towns as the midnight deadline passed on Tuesday for troops to hand over security to Iraqi forces.
“The withdrawal of American troops is completed now from [...]

MORONI (Reuters) – An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into choppy seas as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said.
An official from the state carrier Yemenia said some bodies had been recovered from the wreck. [...]

BOSTON (Reuters) – Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world’s top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.
Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way. A virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to colleagues.
“I [...]

Somali pirates have released a Belgian dredging ship and its crew two months after they were captured, the Belgian prime minister has said.
“We were… informed that the entire crew is in good health,” Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy said in a statement.
Officials say a ransom was paid for the release of the ship, MV Pompei, [...]

Swiss police say they have uncovered an internet child pornography network spanning 78 countries and involving at least 2,000 IP internet addresses.
An inquiry was launched after a tip-off from Interpol about a website based in Switzerland being used as a forum for illegal child pornography films.
The site was officially devoted to hip hop music but [...]

At least one person has been killed in a bomb blast at a market in the southern Philippines.
Fifteen people were wounded when the blast ripped through the market in Datu Saudi Ampatuan township in Maguindanao province early on Monday.
According to witnesses, the dead man was the suspected bomber who was seen placing an explosive device [...]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War.
Hundreds of pro-Zelaya protesters, some masked and wielding sticks, set up barricades of chain link fences and downed billboards [...]