BEIJING - At least 28 miners were killed when an underground cable caught fire inside a coal mine in China’s Shaanxi province, officials said Sunday.

PERTH - A naked Australian man armed with a pistol climbed up a 10-metre-high billboard in Perth and shouted at onlookers below for nearly four hours, bringing the entire city police unit on alert.

Dengue epidemic threatens Caribbean as number of infections and deaths increase

Ten killed, 20 injured in Albania bus crash

TIRANA - Ten people were killed and 20 injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in northern Albania Saturday, local media reported.

Thunderstorm cuts short star-studded opening of flashy Austrian AIDS gala

Officials: Small plane crash in South Portland, Maine, kills 2

Officials: Small plane crash in Maine kills 2

Scientists to keep watch over Gulf oil well cap for another 24 hours to evaluate strength

Trial of Gulf oil well cap extended for 24 hours

The Gulf waits: Oil is plugged, but will BP’s latest solution be nothing but a brief reprieve?

The Gulf waits: Oil is plugged, but for how long?

Storm hits stadium, injuring 5 and forcing delay of Central American-Caribbean Games

Storm hits sports festival stadium, injures 5

Twin 2-year-old girls in Massachusetts drown in family pool

Twin toddler girls in Mass. drown in family pool

Gulf well cap’s trial run ends with no word from BP on what’s next

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Another collapse at NJ parking garage; No injuries reported, but crews removed as a precaution

Another collapse at NJ parking garage

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Another partial collapse has occurred at a parking garage in northern New Jersey, but no injuries have been reported.

The Coast Guard battles an ever-changing, oily enemy _ ‘The Blob’ _ on screens and the coast

For US, ongoing battle against changing oil ‘Blob’

Coast Guard: Giant oil skimmer won’t work in Gulf spill cleanup, it’s just too big

Giant oil skimmer won’t work in Gulf spill cleanup

Four accused in Kachru ragging granted bail

DHARAMSALA - A Himachal Pradesh court Saturday granted bail to all the four students who have been accused of allegedly ragging a first-year medical student leading to his death last year.

Some suspects released with conditions in long-running investigation of Minnesota Somalis

Suspects free with conditions in Minn. terror case

Six judges named in provident fund scam

GHAZIABAD - The Central Bureau of Investigation has named six judges among 78 people in an investigative report for fraudulent withdrawal to the tune of Rs.6.5 crore from the provident fund here.

After 22-hour search, officials determine no victims trapped under NJ parking garage rubble

Officials: No one under NJ parking garage rubble

Student beaten to death over love affair

LUCKNOW - A 17-year-old student in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district was allegedly beaten to death by the family of a girl with whom he had a love affair, police said Saturday.

Unprecedented car-bomb attack on police by Mexican drug cartel puts border town on edge

Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules

Coast Guard command center battles an ever-evolving Blob _ on walls, on screens, on the coast

Battling The Blob from Coast Guard’s command post

Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east

Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan

China oil pipeline fire put out

BEIJING - A massive fire that engulfed a port in northeast China has been put out Saturday, 15 hours after some 2,000 firefighters were pressed into service to contain the inferno, a media report said Saturday.

Samajwadi Party seeks CBI probe into Allahabad blast

LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party (SP) Saturday demanded a federal probe into the Allahabad blast and accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of “implicating” party leaders in the incident which left one dead and five injured, including a minister.

BP says encouraged as trial run of Gulf well cap nears 48 hours with no sign of any new leak

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China executes gun trader

BEIJING - A man convicted of illegally making and selling firearms has been executed in eastern China, a media report said Saturday.

Officials determine no one trapped under NJ parking garage rubble after nearly 20-hour search

Official: No one under NJ parking garage rubble

Six killed in road accident in Jharkhand

RANCHI - Six people were killed and four injured in a road accident involving a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker, an autorickshaw and a bike in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district Saturday, police said.

Woman bank employee arrested for killing colleague

NEW DELHI - A 27-year-old bank employee was Saturday arrested for conspiring with her friend to kill her colleague, police said.

Drunk CRPF man guns down six colleagues, shot dead (Second Lead)

RANCHI - A drunk Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable gunned down six of his colleagues, including an assistant commandant, in a camp in Jharkhand’s Saraikela district late Friday night. He was later shot dead, police said Saturday.

BP says encouraged as first run of Gulf well cap nears 48 hours with no sign of any new leak

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Shooting incident outside Haryana chief minister’s house

ROHTAK - Unidentified men in a Maruti Alto car opened fired on two youths outside the private residence of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here Saturday, said police.

Three rescued from swollen Ghaggar

PANCHKULA - At least three people who had entered the swollen Ghaggar river in this Haryana town Saturday were rescued by teams sent by the district administration.

Massive fire in central Delhi tyre market

NEW DELHI - About 60 shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a central Delhi tyre market early Saturday. However, there were no casualties, an official said.

Protesters block highway alleging police inaction

BANUR - Agitated over alleged police inaction in the murder of a 60-year-old man, scores of residents of this Punjab town Saturday blocked the busy Patiala-Chandigarh national highway for a good two hours.

Mayawati blames Allahabad blast on opposition

LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday blamed the opposition for the Allahabad blast which left one dead and five injured, including Institutional Finance (Stamps and Registration) Minister Nand Gopal Nandi.

Police arrest 20 suspects in connection with Uganda World Cup bomb attacks

Police arrest 20 suspects in Uganda bombing

Roadside bombs kill 4 NATO troops in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east

Roadside bombs kill 4 NATO troops in Afghanistan

Earthquake: Maryland Awakens To Shaking

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Toll in Philippine typhoon reaches 65

MANILA - The death toll from a deadly typhoon that pummelled the Philippines earlier in the week rose to 65 with dozens still missing, the government said Saturday.

Shiv Sena activists held for vandalising news channel office

KOLHAPUR - A Shiv Sena legislator and eight party workers were arrested Saturday on charges of vandalising the office here of a news channel and assaulting a Kannada leader, police said.

Probe initiated into VIP treatment to PM’s ‘adviser’

MOHALI - A high-level inquiry has been initiated into how a man pretending to be an adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — and uncannily with the same name — was provided security and other facilities in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. A case may be registered against him, police said here Saturday.

Roadside bombs kills 4 NATO troops in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east

Roadside bombs kills 4 NATO troops in Afghanistan

Flood alert in Panchkula, Ambala districts

PANCHKULA - Authorities of Haryana’s Panchkula and Ambala districts Saturday issued a flood alert following a rise in the water level of Ghaggar river.

Eight injured in Trinamool-CPI-M clash

KOLKATA - At least eight people were injured when activists of the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) clashed in West Bengal’s Bankura district Saturday, police said.