Football fans will not be allowed to greet their team when they arrive in South Africa for the World Cup.

BP pressed on Thursday with a risky bid to plug a ruptured oil well it said was going as planned.

A 7.2 earthquake struck off Vanuatu on Friday, seismologists said, sparking a tsunami warning which was later cancelled.

Indian President Pratibha Patil met with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Thursday.

Suspected Maoist rebels derailed a high-speed train packed with sleeping passengers into the path of a freight train.