Vancouver Island Hit By 6.1 Earthquake, Several Quakes Follow

Influential Shia Cleric Moqtada Sadr Extends Ceasefire for his Mehdi Army Militia

Floods in Northern India Leave Millions Displaced

European Union Considering Sanctions Against Russia

Migrant Workers Feared Dead after Boat Sinks Off Malta

Chemical Plant Blasts in China Kills at least 20

Brazil’s Supreme Court to Rule on Future of Indigenous Reserve

Dalai Lama Cancels International Trips, Suffering from Exhaustion

Japanese Aid Worker Found Shot to Death in Afghanistan

FAA Announces Widespread Delays in Flights Due to Communication Breakdown

Sudanese Plane Hijacked Shortly After Take-Off

Russia Recognizes Independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Continues to Defy West

Russian MPs Favor Independence of Georgia’s Breakaway Regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

MDC Wins Vote in Parliament, Names Lovemore Moyo as Speaker

Nawaz Sharif to Pull PML-N Party Out of Pakistan’s Coalition Government

Zimbabwe Parliament Set to Meet; Power-Sharing Talks Still Deadlocked

Five Americans Among Dead After Plane Crashes in Guatemala

Suicide Bomber Kills at least 21 in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib District

Passenger Plane in Kyrgyzstan Crashes, More than 50 Feared Dead

Mont Blanc Avalanche in French Alps Leaves Ten Mountaineers Missing