New Delhi, Aug 8, 2006 - State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat, a report said Tuesday.
London, Aug 8, 2006 - A fisherman looking for salmon off the northeast coast of England caught a large swordfish far away from its natural habitat in the Mediterranean, experts said Tuesday.
Hong Kong, Aug 8, 2006 - Environmentalists led a protest against air pollution in Hong Kong Tuesday with a lights-out campaign that didn't shroud the city in darkness but added to the debate on the worsening problem.
Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 - A Spanish police unit specialising in organised crime Tuesday was investigating the spate of forest fires which have ravaged northwestern Spain in recent days, amid claims that many were deliberately set.
Damascus, Aug 8, 2006 - China's special envoy Sun Bijan on Tuesday firmly condemned Israel's month-old offensive against Lebanon, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
Bogota, Aug 8, 2006 - A blaze has erupted in a coffee-growing region of Colombia's high-Andes Los Nevados national park, local officials said Tuesday.
Baghdad, Aug 8, 2006 - A US soldier testifying in the rape-slaying of an Iraqi girl told a military legal panel on Tuesday how soldiers drank Iraqi cough syrup and whisky and took drugs to fight stress due to sustained combat.
Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 - Persistent drought across much of Spain has seen reservoir water reserves slide this month to 45.3 percent of capacity, according to figures which the Environment Ministry published Tuesday.
Juba, Sudan, Aug 8, 2006 - Peace talks to end northern Uganda's brutal two-decade war hung in the balance Tuesday as the rebel Lord's Resistance Army refused to return to the table unless the government declared a truce.
Addis Ababa, Aug 8, 2006 - Hopes faded Tuesday for finding survivors from hundreds of people missing after murderous weekend flash floods devastated a town in eastern Ethiopia, officials and residents said.
Nairobi, Aug 8, 2006 - An oil spill caused by Israeli raids on a Lebanese power plant could rival the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that despoiled the Alaskan coast if not urgently addressed, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Paris, Aug 8, 2006 - Almost half of all French districts are to ask for the right to compensate farmers for crops lost during a withering heatwave last month, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
Beirut, Aug 8, 2006 - The Lebanese army, which is preparing for the possibility of dispatching 15,000 troops to the south once Israel withdraws, counts 60,000 active soldiers but lacks significant firepower and fighting experience, experts say.
Jerusalem, Aug 8, 2006 - The Israeli air force has had to parachute supplies to its elite units operating deep in southern Lebanon to avoid road ambushes by the Hezbollah militia, military sources said.
Washington, Aug 8, 2006 - The Atlantic hurricane season has been less active than anticipated so far this year but US government forecasters warned on Tuesday that three or four major hurricanes could strike in coming months.
Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 - The Spanish government on Tuesday issued an alert to tourists on the country's Mediterranean coast following a jellyfish invasion, most likely due to a rise in water temperatures.
