MELBOURNE - An Australian man has been sentenced to five years in prison for downloading nearly 60,000 “depraved and disgusting” child pornography images.

Mexico City, July 26 (IANS/EFE) At least 40 police officers and an unspecified number of inmates were injured in a riot at a prison in Mexico. Authorities have regained control of the facility, officials said.

Two killed as speeding car runs over labourers

NEW DELHI - Two labourers were killed and seven injured when a speeding car ran over nine people engaged in road repair work early Monday in south Delhi, police said.

Khmer Rouge torturer jailed for 35 years

PHNOM PENH - Comrade Duch, the former head of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious torture and execution prison known as S-21, was Monday sentenced to 35 years in jail at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal.

Over 100 workers taken hostage in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, July 26 (IANS/EFE) Equipped with homemade weapons like bows and arrows, a group of around 300 people took control of an under-construction dam in the Amazon jungle in Brazil and held over 100 workers hostage.

Culture clash: Flood of oil spill cleanup workers creates tension in some coastal La. towns

3 men survive 40-foot fall after flash flood sweeps them through canyon in Zion National Park

Hundreds of thousands without power in DC metro region after powerful storms rip through

Families shocked to learn Ariz. officials mixed up names of woman hurt, woman killed in crash

Passengers stranded at China airport

BEIJING - Thousands of passengers have been stranded at Chinese airport as heavy rainstorms caused cancellation and delay of several international flights in the last two days.

BP’s Tony Hayward might be gone, but Gulf oil spill and angry public haven’t disappeared

Ind. soccer players on emotional rollercoaster after teammate mistakenly IDed as dead in Ariz.

Tony Hayward out as BP CEO, US official says; shift removes a source of gaffes but not the oil

New Zealand teen survives fall from 16th floor

AUCKLAND - A teenager in New Zealand had a miraculous escape with minor injuries after falling from 16th floor of a building.

Kyle Busch finishes 8th at Brickyard 400 after first-lap accident

INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Busch’s day at the Brickyard 400 finished much better than it began.

3 teens trapped on upper floor die in Ind. house fire despite rescue attempt; parents escape

Mexican prosecutors say prison guards lent killers guns, let them out to carry out massacre

Authorities say 8-year-old girl dies, 10 people injured after fire in Calif. apartment complex

111 killed in China floods

BEIJING - At least 111 people have been killed and 167 missing since past 11 days due to floods that hit northwest China’s Shaanxi province, authorities said.

Puerto Rico governor presses US emergency agency to provide aid for 17 flooded communities

Wayward fireworks injure 10 at Salt Lake City holiday celebration

Families shocked to learn AZ officials mixed up names of woman injured, woman killed in crash

US official: BP CEO Tony Hayward, under fire for handling of Gulf spill, will be replaced

Three cops loot ATM

LUCKNOW - Two policemen, including one attached to an Uttar Pradesh minister, were arrested Sunday for looting Rs.9 lakh from an ATM in the state’s Shahjahanpur district, police said.

Some oil spill events from Sunday, July 25, 2010

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

Despite years of training, funding, Iraqi forces still struggling as US turns over mission

Iraqi forces still frail as US troops head home

Flooding from Iowa river causes millions in damage in Monticello, engulfs sewer plant

Flooding causes millions in damage in Iowa

Mysteries persist a year after drunken, stoned mom led SUV into crash that killed 8 in NY

Mysteries persist a year after crash that killed 8

Governor orders flags at half-staff to honor 2 Conn. firefighters killed battling house fire

Flags lowered for 2 Conn. firefighters who died

Bomb at Bangkok bus stop kills 1, wounds 10 as Thai capital votes in parliamentary by-election

Bomb kills 1, wounds 10 after Bangkok by-election

Bomb at Bangkok bus stop wounds 11 as Thai capital votes in parliamentary by-election

Bomb wounds 11 in Bangkok on day of by-election

NRI woman robbed in Delhi

NEW DELHI - Armed men on a motorcycle snatched a gold chain from an NRI woman in the capital, police said Sunday.

Emergency landing by IAF chopper in Haryana

FATEHABAD - An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter on a training flight was forced to make an emergency landing near the fields of Chinder village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district Sunday after its tail caught fire due to a technical snag, an officer said. There were no casualties.

Congress worker dies during march against illegal mining

BANGALORE - A 65-year-old worker of Karnataka’s opposition Congress collapsed and died Sunday on the first day of the party’s 320-km ‘padayatra’ (march) from Bangalore to Bellary to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s powerful ministers, the Reddy brothers, over illegal mining.

Air show goes on after pilot escapes crash of air force jet

Air show goes on after jet crash

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta — An international air show went ahead as scheduled this weekend following the fiery crash of an air force jet during a practice flight. The pilot safely ejected from the CF-18 jet moments before it crashed in a ball of flames.

Probe begins into 19 deaths at Love Parade crush (Second Lead)

DUISBURG - State prosecutors have begun investigating the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least 19 people and injuries to hundreds at Saturday’s Love Parade music festival, officials said.

Gurgaon family robbed of Rs.2 lakh

GURGAON - Four robbers held a family at gunpoint Sunday and fled with Rs.2 lakh in cash and jewellery in this suburb of the national capital, police said.

Foxconn India plant shut down after toxic gas leak

CHENNAI - Mobile phone accessory maker Foxconn India’s plant at Sunguvarchatram, around 45 km from here, has been shut down following a gas leak late Friday.

Shah goes to jail, CBI doesn’t seek remand (Intro Roundup)

AHMEDABAD - On the run for three days, Gujarat’s disgraced former minister Amit Shah was Sunday sent to Sarabmati Jail here for 14 days over an alleged Islamist’s murder, after he dramatically surfaced at a media meet and surrendered to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Bomb at Bangkok bus stop wounds 9 as Thai capital votes in parliamentary by-election

Bomb wounds 9 in Bangkok on day of by-election

Two killed as boulders fall on Shimla hutment

SHIMLA - Two labourers were killed and three were injured when boulders and debris fell on their temporary hutment in this Himachal Pradesh capital Sunday, police said.

Families of victims of Concorde supersonic jet crash mark 10 years since disaster

Families mark 10 years since Concorde crash

Bomb at Bangkok bus stop wounds 9 on day capital votes in parliamentary by-election

Bomb at Bangkok bus stop wounds 9

BANGKOK — Police in Thailand’s capital say at least nine people have been wounded by a bomb explosion at a bus stop in downtown Bangkok.

Refused Rs.5, boy commits suicide

KOLKATA - A nine-year-old boy committed suicide here after his mother refused him Rs.5, police said Sunday.

Don’t pay extortion to militants, Meghalaya officials told

SHILLONG - Meghalaya Home Minister H.D.R. Lyngdoh Sunday asked government officials to inform the police about extortion notices issued to them by militants and threatened legal action if they complied with the rebels’ demands.

Disgraced Shah re-appears, arrested, jailed (Roundup)

GANDHINAGAR/AHMEDABAD - On the run for three days, Gujarat’s disgraced former minister Amit Shah was sent to 14-day judicial custody Sunday over an alleged Islamist’s murder, hours after he made a dramatic appearance before the media and surrendered to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

14 days judicial custody for Amit Shah

GANDHINAGAR - Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, who was arrested here after being charged with the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout, was Sunday sent to 14 days judicial custody.

More arrests likely in Punjab honour killing

HOSHIARPUR - More arrests are likely to take place in the honour killing of a young woman by her father in Punjab while a man who killed his sister for “going around with a couple of boys” was arrested nearly a month after the crime, officials said Sunday.

Germany’s Love Parade festival will never be held again after 19 killed, 342 injured in crush

Germany’s Love Parade festival canceled for good

Police search for causes of German festival stampede

DUISBURG - Police in the city of Duisburg Sunday began searching for the exact causes of a mass panic in a tunnel at the Love Parade music event, in which 19 people died.