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Thousands of grief-stricken mourners watched in tears on Saturday as rescue workers lit one white candle for every one of the 21 people crushed to death in a tunnel at the Love Parade techno music festival.

Violence continued to rage in Indian Kashmir on Saturday with one person shot dead and three others wounded after police opened fire on protesters who attacked their camp.

Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases.

Recovery workers have found the "black box" flight data recorder from the wreckage of Pakistan's worst ever plane crash, a government official said.

Fifteen people had to be treated by medics after suddenly falling ill during a private function at a social club, the ambulance service said.

Germany was holding a memorial service on Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured.

Officials say floods have killed 430 people in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed infantry troops and aircraft in case of a conflict with neighbouring Colombia.

An explosion has ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley is suing the prison service after being attacked by another inmate, the Ministry of Justice has said.

Pakistan's intelligence agency cancelled planned talks with security experts in the UK in protest at David Cameron's claim that elements within the country were promoting the export of terror, it has been reported.

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British forces have made progress in a fresh assault on the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and are holding two compounds.

Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving a U.S. Embassy vehicle, officials said.

Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Uribe is in the final month of a presidency that has had many tensions with neighboring Venezuela, mostly over accusations that rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and National Liberation Army have camps in Venezuela.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday the army needs to help tackle wildfires that have left five people dead and around 100 injured in central Russia.

Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang.

The toll from the deluge was expected to rise because many people were still reported missing.

In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble's comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can't help thinking it's all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.