A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.

The first U.S. relief airlift arrived in Myanmar on Monday after prolonged negotiations with the country’s isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy and has restricted international aid to as many as 2 million cyclone victims.

Irena Sendler — a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities — has died at age 98.

At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Guld region to Latin America have recently approached U.N.  officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations.

American soldiers killed three Shiite extremists who attacked them with small arms and rocket launchers in Baghdad’s Shiite slum, despite a reported cease-fire, the U.S. military said Monday.

An Australian swimmer said he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye.

Lebanon hung between fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mountains overlooking the capital.

An overloaded ferry sunk off Haiti's southern coast, killing at least 11 people, U.N. and Haitian authorities said Sunday.

For his outspoken opposition to President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's best-known college student has been called a U.S. collaborator and has had his nose broken in a scuffle.

A prominent member of al-Qaida was killed in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site on Sunday.

Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections — a stunning upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence and thwart the nation's ambitions to join the European Union.