President Robert Mugabe said he planned to appoint cabinet ministers and form a government unilaterally, the state-owned newspaper reported.

Florence Hartmann, a former spokeswoman for the prosecution at the United Nations war crimes tribunal, is accused to have disclosed confidential information in a book after she left the court.

The death toll from a series of explosions in southwest China rose to 20 on Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Thousands of protesters blockaded the prime minister’s office, and their leaders challenged police to arrest them.

The two hijackers who had commandeered a jetliner from the Darfur region of Sudan on Tuesday had asked for asylum in Libya, but it was not clear whether their request had been granted.

Israel is in the grip of a nightmarish tale of a French girl named Rose, who police say was killed by her grandfather.

Suspected militants in northern India barricaded themselves in a house on the outskirts of Jammu and held four children and an adult hostage.

Suspected militants in northern India barricaded themselves in a house on the outskirts of Jammu and held four children and an adult hostage.

Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man, the fifth arrest in two weeks.

The U.S. military will hand over responsibility for the security of Anbar Province, one of the most violent regions in Iraq, as early as next Monday, officials said.