Uphill task for Turkey's marathon runners

Uphill task for Turkey's marathon runners

Uphill task for Turkey's marathon runners

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Turkey's second annual ultra-marathon gets underway as runners begin a 240 kilometre race along the country's Mediterranean coastline. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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VIDEO: Libya: Sirte medical needs 'dire'

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 11:28 PM PDT

People in the besieged Libyan city of Sirte are in desperate need of medical aid, the International Red Cross has warned.


Hurricane Ophelia sweeps past Bermuda, strengthens

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:35 PM PDT

HAMILTON, Oct 2 — Hurricane Ophelia strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it swept east of Bermuda yesterday, whipping up showers, thunderstorms and surf on the British overseas territory, forecasters said. Ophelia, the third major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, passed around 220km east of the small, rocky Atlantic island of some 70,000 ...

VIDEO: Syria: Battle for Rastan heightens

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:39 PM PDT

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army has regained control of the central town of Rastan, according to state media.


VIDEO: Second typhoon in days hits Philippines

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 06:29 PM PDT

A third storm is developing out at sea and could hit the island later in the week.


VIDEO: The most Scottish place in Italy?

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:54 AM PDT

Duncan Kennedy went to find out more about the place known by locals as "the most Scottish in Italy".


VIDEO: Lucky escape as plane hits funfair ride

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 02:08 PM PDT

People at a funfair in the small town of Taree in Eastern Australia had a lucky escape when a light aircraft crashed into a ferris wheel.


VIDEO: Dutch city bans 'drug tourists'

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:24 AM PDT

A ban on most foreign visitors has come into force in the cannabis-selling coffee shops of the Dutch city of Maastricht.


VIDEO: Tunisia election campaigning begins

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:46 PM PDT

The elections are the first since the revolution in January which inspired the Arab Spring - a wave of uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East.


VIDEO: Denmark introduces 'fat tax'

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:49 PM PDT

Denmark has become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to health.


Egypt military council offers concessions

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:49 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council said on Saturday it would consider ending military trials for civilians and setting a clearer timeline for the transition to civilian rule.

Pro-Assad forces regain rebel Syrian town - agency

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:19 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops entered the central town of Rastan, the official news agency said on Saturday, after the most prolonged fighting between the army and insurgents in the-six month uprising.

ANALYSIS - World divided on new plan to combat global warming

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:19 PM PDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.

U.S. issues travel alert after Awlaki death

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:19 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel alert on Saturday warning of the possibility of anti-American attacks in response to the killing of two top al Qaeda members.

INSIGHT - South Korea stares down demographic dilemma

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim, a doctoral student in her 30s, personifies many of the qualities that make South Korea such an economic force -- relative youth, education and ambition.

FACTBOX - Australia-Norway plan to rescue UN climate talks

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

If they succeed, it could mean a new climate deal could go into force by 2018 once nations sign and parliaments ratify the pact. But the idea is likely to face resistance from developing countries, which back an extension to the existing Kyoto Protocol.

Thousands attend funeral of executed U.S. convict Troy Davis

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

SAVANNAH, Ga. (Reuters) - Thousands of people packed a church in the U.S. state of Georgia on Saturday for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed for the murder of a police officer in a case that drew world attention because of claims by his advocates that he was innocent.

Karzai says peace talks should involve Pakistan

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has hinted he has lost hope in pursuing peace talks with the Taliban and said Afghanistan should be negotiating peace with Pakistan instead.

Sudan's Bashir rejects mediation in talks with South

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan wants to end all conflict with newly-independent South Sudan through dialogue but without any foreign mediation, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Saturday ahead of a visit by his southern counterpart.

Libya's Moussa Ibrahim denies reports of his capture

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - Moussa Ibrahim, the fugitive spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi, telephoned a Syria-based television channel on Saturday to deny reports that he himself had been captured this week.

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