Beijing, Aug 8, 2006 - Up to 300 knife-wielding and gun-toting villagers rioted in central China in what appeared to be a clan dispute, with soldiers deployed to quash the violence, residents said Tuesday.
Tokyo, Aug 8, 2006 - Softbank Corp said Tuesday it returned to profit in the first quarter on a broad business turnaround and vowed to spend aggressively to make its acquisition of telecom giant Vodafone's Japanese unit a success.
Singapore, Aug 8, 2006 - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) said Tuesday it has entered into an agreement with Cybernet of Pakistan to provide Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) coverage in Karachi.
Moscow, Aug 8, 2006 - Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said in an interview published Tuesday that all the terrorists surrounding Israel are using Russian weapons.
Jakarta, Aug 8, 2006 - Clashes between soldiers and police on the Indonesian island of Sumatra Tuesday left one soldier and one policeman dead, a police spokesman said.
Paris, Aug 8, 2006 - French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on Tuesday hailed Beirut's offer to deploy 15,000 troops in south Lebanon as a key development in efforts to end the four-week conflict with Israel.
Beijing, Aug 8, 2006 - China said Tuesday its first confirmed human death from bird flu was in 2003, two years earlier than previously reported, showing that the virus was present on the mainland before the latest outbreak was first disclosed elsewhere in Asia.
Hyderabad, India, Aug 8, 2006 - Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said Tuesday, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187.
Tripoli, Aug 8, 2006 - The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of injecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus was adjourned Tuesday until August 29.
Rome, Aug 8, 2006 - The oil spill caused by Israeli raids on a Lebanese power plant poses a cancer risk to the people of Lebanon and Syria, the United Nations warned Tuesday.
Munich, Germany, Aug 8, 2006 - Qimonda, the memory chips unit of German semi-conductors giant Infineon, is to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange from Wednesday, an Infineon spokesman said on Tuesday.
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, Aug 8, 2006 - Relatives Tuesday sprinkled perfumed water and buried aid workers gunned down inside their office in strife-torn northeastern Sri Lanka, while police maintained tight security.
Paris, Aug 8, 2006 - France on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to take into account Beirut's offer to deploy 15,000 troops in south Lebanon as it seeks a deal on a resolution to end the four-week conflict with Israel.
Beijing, Aug 8, 2006 - The first Russian Orthodox church will open in the North Korean capital Pyongyang next Sunday, foreign diplomats in the North said Tuesday, in an apparent attempt to show that the reclusive communist state tolerates religious freedom.
Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 - Spanish police have sent a unit specialised in fighting organised crime to the northwestern region oF Galicia, where dozens of fires have been deliberately started, officials in Madrid said Tuesday.
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Aug 8, 2006 - Torrential monsoon rains are feared to have killed another 33 people across Pakistan Tuesday, including 20 when a bus slid off a flooded mountain road and plunged into a ravine.
