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TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A Libyan Airbus crashed as it  tried to land at Tripoli airport early today, killing 103  passengers and crew aboard, but a Dutch boy survived, officials  said.

Following investigations and advice from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions, grasstrack racer Dwarka Gangadeen was this afternoon charged with the murder of his wife Bridgette and he is expected to appear in court tomorrow.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Gordon Brown resigned as prime  minister of Britain today and said Conservative leader  David Cameron would take over, ending 13 years of rule by the  centre-left Labour Party.

Fire just after 7 am today ravaged the historic St Joseph Mercy Hospital.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Conservatives  offered coalition talks to the Liberal Democrats today after  a dramatic parliamentary election produced no outright majority,  the first time this has happened in Britain since 1974.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An exit poll published after voting ended in the British election today suggested the opposition Conservatives would emerge as the largest party, but fall short of an outright majority in parliament.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Any links between Pakistan’s  Taliban and a failed bombing in New York’s Times Square could  put the country under renewed U.S.

New York bomb suspect charged, arrests in Pakistan NEW YORK/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Backyard barbecue gas tanks,  firecrackers and alarm clocks were among the ingredients used  to make a car bomb that authorities say would have killed many  people if it had exploded in New York’s busy Times Square.  

SMOLENSK, Russia, (Reuters) – Poland’s President  Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military  chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in  thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport today.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin gave the United States’ main Latin American foe,  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a needed boost with a brief  visit yesterday to discuss oil, defense and nuclear energy  cooperation.

CONCEPCION, Chile, (Reuters) – A massive earthquake  and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town,  pushing the total death toll higher yesterday as the government  tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting.

CONCEPCION, Chile,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile today, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

A huge fire broke out at La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara at 11.40 pm yesterday and at press time three buildings were engulfed and the fire service was desperately trying to save a fourth.

Trinidad police suspect a suicide pact in the death of a couple whose bodies were discovered in an apartment in Longdenville, Chaguanas, yesterday.

Dear Editor, Miners are seeking tiny fraction of the forest for direct mining.

Race car driver Peter Morgan was this afternoon sentenced to ten years in jail by a Brooklyn Federal Court on a drug trafficking charge but could be out in six years based on the period he has already been incarcerated.

Two prisoners died early this morning after they fought each other at the Georgetown Prisons.

Amidst growing concern over a government proposal for a six-month waiting period before mining can commence, Barticians plan to shut down the mining town on Monday, February 1st in protest.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A teenage girl was pulled alive from under a collapsed house in Port-au-Prince today, 15 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.