World

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China yesterday  dismissed a report that Pakistan gave it access to an advanced  U.S.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The famine in the Horn of Africa  is manmade — the result of artificially high prices for food  and civil conflict, the World Bank’s lead economist for Kenya  Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters yesterday.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels fighting to  topple Muammar Gaddafi scorned reports of secret talks with the  Libyan leader on Monday as their forces fought to secure gains  and the United States said Gaddafi’s days were numbered.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – In preparation for a new  triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers  for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling  to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate  Web addresses.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Police arrested India’s  leading anti-corruption campaigner today, just hours before  he was due to fast to the death, as the beleaguered government  cracked down on a self-styled Gandhian activist agitating for a  new “freedom” struggle.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican lawmakers  fumed yesterday over potential lost American exports because of  a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia that has taken  force before President Barack Obama has even sent a  five-year-old U.S-Colombia

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Mozambique invites Brazilian  soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and  introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the  head of Mato Grosso state’s cotton producers association Ampa  said on Monday.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A college student who  overstepped a safety railing fell into Niagara Falls over the  weekend and searchers looking for her body on Monday found an  unidentified male body instead.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – A 65-year-old man was  sentenced to a year in a federal prison and fined $10,000 yesterday for sexually abusing a fellow airline passenger while  she slept under a blanket in the seat beside him.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former employees of elite Wall  Street firms are triumphing over their previous investment  banks in Google Inc’s blockbuster $12.5 billion deal to buy  Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels said they  had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours,  completing the encirclement of the capital in the boldest  advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar  Gaddafi.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Suicide attackers and car bombs  struck cities across Iraq yesterday, killing at least 50 people  and wounding scores more in a rash of apparently coordinated  assaults carried out by affiliates of al Qaeda, authorities  said.

LILONGWE, (Reuters) – Malawi police killed 19 unarmed  citizens and shot 58 others during protests in July, the  government’s rights body said yesterday, in the first official  report on unprecedented rallies against President Bingu wa  Mutharika’s government.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Beset by civil unrest at home and  lambasted by the West and his Arab neighbours for his violent  crackdown on dissent, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad can  count on one firm ally: Iran.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global food prices held near  three-year highs in July and stocks were low, piling on  pressure on the world’s poor, the World Bank said yesterday.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Libyan state television early today broadcast what it said was a live speech by Muammar Gaddafi calling on the Libyan people to arm themselves to  liberate the country from “traitors and from NATO.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former Minnesota Governor  Tim Pawlenty became the first major casualty in the marathon  U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron says his government would mend Britain’s “broken society”  to prevent a repeat of the country’s worst riots in decades.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian tanks and navy ships  shelled the main Mediterra-nean port city of Latakia yesterday,  residents and rights groups said, killing 26 people as President  Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched an offensive by land and sea  to crush protests against his rule.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan gave China access to  the previously unknown U.S.