Beirut, Aug 4, 2006 - Israeli warplanes Friday struck a bridge on the coast road 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Beirut near the Christian port of Juniyeh, police announced.
Beirut, Aug 4, 2006 - Israeli warplanes Friday bombed a major power station that serves the south of the eastern Bekaa Valley and much of southern Lebanon, police said.
Majuro, Aug 4, 2006 - More than a year after it was rejected by local environmental authorities, an 18 million dollar Taiwanese floating dry-dock is being reconsidered by the Marshall Islands.
Phnom Penh, Aug 4, 2006 - An HIV-positive Cambodian man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for trying to infect his wife by raping her without using a condom, court officials said Friday.
Vilnius, Aug 4, 2006 - The Lithuanian government declared a state of emergency in the country's agricultural sector on Friday because of severe drought.
Beijing, Aug 4, 2006 - Typhoon Prapiroon killed at least 18 people and left up to seven others missing after crashing ashore in southern China, pounding the area with torrential rains and gale force winds Friday.
Stockholm, Aug 4, 2006 - Sweden's nuclear authority said on Friday it would not close down any more nuclear power stations, after problems forced a halt to operations at four of the country's 10 reactors.
Johannesburg, Aug 4, 2006 - South Africa's HIV/AIDS pandemic has led to a major rise in the rate of tuberculosis infection, with 300,000 new cases recorded last year, the government said on Friday.
Bogota, Aug 4, 2006 - A quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck between Colombia and Venezuela on Friday, geologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Vienna, Aug 4, 2006 - Sweden alerted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the recent incident at one of its nuclear plants but requested no technical assistance, an agency spokesman said Friday.
Madrid, Aug 4, 2006 - A man and a woman died trapped in their car on Friday as they tried to flee a forest fire in northwestern Spain, Spanish radio reported.
Caracas, Aug 4, 2006 - Iran will not stop its controversial nuclear work despite a UN resolution calling for a halt by month's end, the Islamic republic's deputy foreign minister told Latin American television Friday.
Washington, Aug 4, 2006 - The United States announced sanctions Friday against two major Russian arms companies and five other foreign firms for allegedly providing Iran with materiel that could be used to develop missile systems or weapons of mass destruction.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 04, 2006 - By observing events at the scale of single atoms, Cornell researchers have found evidence that the mechanism in high-temperature superconductors may be much more like that in low-temperature superconductors than was previously thought.
Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2006 - UltraCell has announced that it has received a contract award for delivery of its XX25, a 25-watt reformed methanol fuel cell system, to the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, for use as an airman power device. The contract was awarded by GTS, with the fuel cell units scheduled for delivery in September 2006.
Seoul, Aug 4, 2006 - North Korea has apparently removed a long-range missile from a remote launch site a month after it triggered widespread alarm with a series of missile tests there, a newspaper reported Friday. Officials here were quoted as saying they were puzzled as to why the missile had been moved and where it was now located.
