Reuters - Sri Lanka on Wednesday deported a MP it views as sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger separatists, the latest foreign official it has sent out of the country at the end of a 25-year war.
AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned Indian students not to take the law into their own hands after a second night of rowdy protests against alleged racial violence.
AP - Two state government officials whose wives are owners of a Mexican day care center where 44 children died in a fire resigned on Tuesday, saying they wanted to clear the way for an investigation into the blaze.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 9 (OneWorld.net) - As 115 million more people have been driven into poverty and hunger by rising food prices over the past three years, top UN officials are demanding a new global system to ensure that people across the world have enough to eat.
AFP - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main rebel group in southern Nigeria, said it had set a pumping station of US oil giant Chevron on fire.
McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A massive truck bomb Tuesday struck the only luxury hotel in Peshawar, a volatile city in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 11 and injuring 70, with several foreign nationals among the victims.
The Christian Science Monitor - "Phoenix" had been jobless for months in this bustling town on Colombia's southern Pacific coast when he accepted a job, which paid $16 a day, working in a cocaine lab along with 24 others.
AP - Police have charged a man who allegedly posted an anti-Semitic video on YouTube with enticing racism under a so-far untested Australian state law, officials said Thursday.
AFP - Myanmar's military junta took pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison on Thursday to face charges over an incident in which an American man swam across a lake to visit her house, officials said.