Thai "red shirt" protesters ruled out negotiations with the government on Sunday and said they would not give up their fight.

The coffin carrying the body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski has been flown from the Russian city of Smolensk to Warsaw.

Shocked and grieving Poles observed two minutes of silence for President Lech Kaczynski and much of their country's elite on Sunday.

A major quake of magnitude 7.1 struck the Solomon Islands on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey.

Police are investigating whether there is a link between homosexual sex and the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche.

Two Chinese singers have become the first people in the country to fall foul of new rules banning lip-synching.