Elephant tramples tourists to death

Elephant charged American tourists hiking on Kenya natural trail killing a mother and the baby daughter she held in her arms

Survivor of Japan's two atomic bombs dies

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who fled Hiroshima after the first attack only to be bombed in Nagasaki, said his existence was a miracle

China sued for ‘stealing’ software program

US firm seeks $2.2 billion in damages from Beijing for allegedly stealing its technology in order to increase censorship

Pi - the story taking 49,000 years to tell

The French programmer Fabrice Bellard has calculated the mathematical building block to 2,700 billion decimal places

Pakistani links to Haqqanis under spotlight

Military has long been in league with militant groups to protect its interests in Afghanistan against Indian influence

Japan’s veteran Finance Minister quits

Resignation of Hirohisa Fujii is blamed on pressure of drafting 2010 budget as Deputy PM Naoto Kan is named as successor

Cases for and against Iceland repaying loan

The Government says that Britons should be allowed to campaign, but warns that lobbying could stoke domestic opposition

Oldest footprints mark move from land to sea

Footprints in Poland indicate that an animal - possibly resembling a crocodile - came from the sea 395 million years ago

Survivor of two atomic bombs dies at 93

Tsutomu Yamaguchi fled Hiroshima after it was destroyed in 1945 only to arrive in Nagasaki on the day the second bomb fell

Anti-whaling ship's bow sliced off by Japanese

High tech boat owned by environment group Sea Shepherd badly damaged as it harassed Japanese whaling fleet

UK may block Israeli war crimes warrants

Amendment to British law planned to stop pro-Palestinian activists serving Israeli visitors with war crimes warrants

Ransom cash fuels boom in Little Mogadishu

In one suburb of Nairobi 'pirate cash' from Somalia is keeping the economy afloat

Soldier killed in clashes over Galloway convoy

Protests over an international aid convoy to Gaza turned violent after part of the convoy was stopped at border

Three al-Qaeda fighters arrested in Yemen

Unconfirmed report that local terror chief Mohammed al-Hanq, blamed for threat to Western embassies, among those held

Triple agent was 'CIA's best hope for years'

CIA had regarded suicide bomber so highly White House was told to expect important information from his debriefing

Indians warned after murder in Australia

Fatal stabbing of post graduate Indian student in Melbourne leads to Indian government warning of assault risks in Australia

Las Vegas brothel offers new 'menu' for women

Shady Lady Ranch is advertising for men with a 'willingness to please' to become male prostitutes (female clients only)