Pattani, Thailand - Three people were killed and five wounded Saturday when insurgents in a pick-up truck fired into a tea shop in Yala, the centre of the Islamic insurgency in Thailand's deep sout

Hong Kong - Hong Kong legislators were Saturday touring earthquake-devastated parts of Sichuan in China as the city prepares to make a massive and controversial donation to the relief effort.

Washington, July 4 : An internal State Department investigation has found that employees have accessed the passport information files of dozens of well-known Americans an "excessive" number of time

Tehran- Iran will reply to the latest incentive package of the United Nations veto powers plus Germany (5+1) on Friday, state television reported.

Sofia - Bulgarian customs officials on the border with Romania seized 78 kilos of heroin from a Polish truck and arrested the Polish driver, authorities in Sofia said Friday.

Bulgaria, straddling routes of international drug smugglers, routinely seizes large amounts of heroin on its borders with Turkey to the south, Romania to the north and Serbia to the east.

Some 19 tons of narcotics have been incinerated in Bulgaria since 2000, but it is certain that much more has slipped through. Apart from the West-bound heroin, chemicals, amphetamines and other substances are also smuggled across the Balkan country's soil.