World

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Trimming U.S. funding to  the World Bank and other global lenders would reduce American  influence in developing countries and give China a competitive  edge, lawmakers were told yesterday.

LUSAKA,  (Reuters) – At least 33 people were killed  in Zambia yesterday when a bus smashed into a truck about 300  km (180 miles) east of the capital Lusaka, police said.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – An Indonesian family stopped a  wedding after discovering the groom was a woman, only for an  ex-boyfriend to save their blushes by stepping in to marry the  bride.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress and world  markets faced more uncertainty yesterday as Republican leaders  delayed action on a plan to raise the government’s $14.3  trillion borrowing limit, narrowing the chances for a deal to  avert a debt default.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The main global grouping of gays  and lesbians, ILGA, has been formally recognised by the United  Nations against strong opposition from African and Islamic  countries, according to a U.N.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A court in Mexico yesterday sentenced a 14-year-old U.S.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – At least 78 people were killed yesterday when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a  mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the  military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

(Reuters) –  Western security agencies were most  likely behind the killing of an Iranian scientist in an operation that underlines the myriad complications in the  conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, analysts say.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.

ROME (Reuters) – Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa, UN aid officials said yesterday.

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late yesterday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia, but local Serbs resisted the move as ethnic tensions rose sharply.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers failed to  achieve a budget breakthrough and instead worked on rival plans  yesterday in an impasse that heightened prospects for a  catastrophic U.S.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik  said he killed 93 people to spark a “revolution” against the  multiculturalism he believed was sapping Europe’s heritage, and  experts say a frank debate about immigration may be the best way  to prevent similar explosions of violence.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York hotel maid who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting  to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s  website yesterday that he appeared as a “crazy man” and  attacked her when she entered his room.

WENZHOU, China, (Reuters) –     China sacked three  senior railway officials yesterday after a collision between two  high-speed trains killed at least 35 people and raised new  questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

SUNDVOLLEN (Reuters) – Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman yesterday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack.

(Reuters) – The man suspected of Norway’s gun and bomb massacre liked guns and weight-lifting, had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the “cultural Marxists” of the establishment.

DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – Aid agencies cannot reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck country where Islamist militants control much of the worst-hit areas, the UN’s food agency said yesterday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China’s eastern Zhejiang province yesterday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Scores of people were injured in Cairo yesterday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defence Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said.