100 hours after quake, survivor plucked from rubble 2008-05-17 05:45 - Cheering Chinese soldiers pulled a survivor from the wreckage of a fertiliser
plant today, 100 hours after the massive Sichuan earthquake.
100 killed in fire after roadworkers fracture fuel pipeline in Ijegun 2008-05-17 05:45 - Ijegun Residents, above, view the charred wreckage of their homes and
possessions yesterday as rescuers worked to reunite families and register
missing victims from a Nigeria pipeline fire that killed 100 people.
Cult leave cave but world goes on 2008-05-17 05:45 - Moscow Fumes from two corpses have driven the last members of a doomsday cult from the cave where they had waited six months for the end of the world.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi plan to wed 2008-05-17 05:45 - Los Angeles Ellen DeGeneres, the TV talk show host, is putting a California Supreme Court ruling in favour of gay marriage into action. She and her actress girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, plan to marry, DeGeneres has announced.
Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius allowed to compete in Beijing 2008-05-17 05:45 - He had become a curiosity and was in danger of becoming a sporting sideshow,
but Oscar Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated as a child, was finally
cleared yesterday to compete at the Beijing Olympics against the fastest men
in the world.
Brazen fraudster feted by Latin brass 2008-05-17 05:10 - Robert Vesco, a swashbuckling Wall Street financier and conman whose frauds made headlines, has died as a fugitive in Cuba, aged 71.
Found in river - the real bust of Julius Caesar 2008-05-16 06:01 - The world has been introduced to the true face of Julius Caesar with the
discovery in a river in southern France of a bust that was sculpted in the
lifetime of the Roman leader.
Queen dons a headscarf for Mosque visit 2008-05-16 06:01 - The Queen made a rare visit to a mosque today, donning a headscarf alongside
the devout wife of Turkey’s president to tour the crypt and caverns of an
historic Islamic shrine.
