Melbourne, June 9: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the first Western leader to visit Hiroshima after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, has called for an end to nuclear weapons.

“Hiroshima should cause the world community to resolve afresh that all humankind must exert their every effort for peace in this 21st century,”' Rudd said.

“We, the people of the Asia-Pacific region, should resolve afresh to make this Asia-Pacific century a century of peace and, for the world at large, that we should aspire now for a world free of nuclear weapons,” he added.

Dublin  - Voting in Ireland's referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty was set to get underway Monday on five islands off the north-western coast, three days before the rest of the country.

Kathmandu, June 9: India’s Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh

Hong Kong  - A candlelight vigil held yearly in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square was covered for the first time b