According to newspaper websites, the classified US Government documents released by WikiLeaks whistleblower include claims of:

The difference being that for each person lost the world was watching their story albeit only momentarlity; the crushed people in Cambodia, the miners in New Zealand and the four people killed by the...

A £72.1bn bail-out for the Irish Government from the IMF and Europe has been agreed.

A massive fire has torn through the roof of a major train station on the Asian side of Istanbul.

The Irish Government is expected to publish details of its 85 billion euro bailout later.

A cargo plane crashed into a housing complex in Karachi soon after takeoff, setting off a huge blaze and killing all crew members.

North Korea has moved missiles close to frontline areas and threatened to "deliver a brutal military blow" if provoked.

Police in Rio have arrested more suspects as they moved into a slum where hundreds of drug traffickers are believed to be hiding.

The town of Lopburi in Thailand celebrated its annual Monkey Festival laying out a lavish banquet.

European Union finance ministers will meet on Sunday to discuss an 85 billion euro bailout for the Irish economy.

Police in Rio have given drug traffickers holed up in a hillside slum an ultimatum to turn themselves in.

US federal agents have said they stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives in Oregon.