Brazilian officials say the photographing of a rare 'lost' tribe of Amazon Indians deep in the rainforest will help safeguard their future.
They've released photos of alarmed tribe members pointing bows and arrows at an aircraft carrying photographers. Of more than 100 tribes who've had no contact with the rest of the world, experts say more than half live in either Brazil or Peru. Conservation groups such as Survival International say all are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and ravaged by new diseases.
Susan Flory reports.
SOUNDBITE: Lindomar Padilha, Anthropologist, saying (Portuguese): "The most important thing is this is a new discovery. We're talking about a people that have a long residence - they were photographed in their villages - that's very interesting."
May 29 - Honda Motors taps into the dog-lovers' market with latest dog-friendly mini-van. The new 'Freed' mini-van, launched in Japan promises to be the answer to dog owners who simply won't leave their pets behind.
May 29 - Members of the Gujjar community blocked highways and burned car tires leading to the national capital, New Delhi on Thursday increasing the scale of their battle for job and university quotas.
A Slovenian start up called Zemanta is "feeling lucky" after winning international investment for its innovative technology.
Founded in 2007 by two former journalists, Zemanta was one of the winners of a competition staged by Seedcamp, a UK based technology incubator that set out find the 'Google of Europe' in its inaugural competition in 2007. Zemanta has since received $1.5 million in funding from the UK investment funds Eden Ventures and the Accelerator Group. Reuters European Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan travelled to Ljubljana to meet the founders and find out how they are targeting the Silicon Valley with a technology that brings Google logic to content creation.
With the arrival of summer and mango season, India's western city Mumbai plays host to the 6th annual mango eating competition.
Around 30 people took part, having to eat as many mangoes as possible in 3 minutes. And if they could stomach any more, the winners were rewarded with a fresh box of the fruit.
The competition was a part of the six-day Konkan Festival
A colourful race of self-made beds draws thousands of spectators at an annual German event.
Taking part in Fredersdorf, southeast of Berlin, this is the 20th "Bettenrennen" (bed race).
Dressed as storks, playboy bunnies and chickens, participants raced past some 5,000 spectators in colourfully made beds, some of which reminded onlookers of everything but a bed.
The only criteria necessary to race were that beds had to be "fast, crazy and original."
May 16 - In a new and as yet unauthenticated audio tape, Osama Bin Laden vows to continue fighting for the Palestinian cause.
The tape's release coincides with Israel's 60th anniversary this month as a nation.
Bin Laden said the Jewish state was at the heart of the Muslim battle with the West and an inspiration to the 19 bombers who carried out the attacks on U.S. cities on Sept. 11, 2001.
Fresh video has emerged of the moment the China earthquake struck in Sichuan province.
This footage was shot on 12 May 2008 in An county - just 100km from the epicentre of the 7.9 magnitude quake in Wenchuan county.
The death toll stood at 21,500 on Friday (16 May 2008) but with thousands of people still trapped under rubble, that toll is expected to rise. Five million people are believed to be living in temporary shelters.
The death toll from China's massive earthquake could soar to more than 50,000 as rescuers struggle to help survivors.
Around 20,000 people are confirmed dead after Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake and 25,000 were buried in areas rescuers have struggled to reach, battling landslides, buckled roads and collapsed bridges.
The Communist Party told officials to "ensure social stability" as the quake spawned rumours of chemical spills, fears of dam bursts and scenes of collective desperation.
May 16 - At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when a ruptured fuel pipeline exploded in a suburb of the commercial capital Lagos.
The accident happened after a bulldozer engaged in a roadbuilding project burst the concealed pipeline.
A huge fireball swept through homes and schools in Ijegun village, which lies about 50 kms (30 miles) from the the centre of Nigeria's biggest city Lagos.
May 14 - Known as 'Fusion Man', a former pilot has stunned crowds by flying a jet-propelled wing for nearly ten minutes at a peak speed of 300 km/h (186 mph).
Yves Rossy, a Swiss former military pilot and Airbus commander for Swiss airlines completed an official demonstration on Wednesday (May 14, 2008) in the Swiss Chablais region, where he was released from a plane at 2438 metres (8000 feet) with his wing folded.
He deployed his craft after a short free-fall and began his flight. After a flight of almost ten minutes, he deployed his parachute, folded the wing and landed at the Bex airdrome.
Reuters QuickCut is a video snapshot of the most compelling images from around the world.Yves Rossy, a Swiss former military pilot and Airbus commander for Swiss airlines completed an official demonstration on Wednesday (May 14, 2008) in the Swiss Chablais region, where he was released from a plane at 2438 metres (8000 feet) with his wing folded. He deployed his craft after a short free-fall and began his flight. After a flight of almost ten minutes, he deployed his parachute, folded the wing and landed at the Bex airdrome
Reuters QuickCut is a video snapshot of the most compelling images from around the world.
May 13 - Indian government ministries and security agencies will meet to tackle concerns over websites such as Google Earth showing satellite maps of military installations that could be targeted by militants.
May 14 - Terror has struck India seven times in the last two years. The target in each case being crowded public areas including courts, religious places and trains.
Lucknow, Varanasi, Faizabad, Ajmer, Hyderabad, Malegaon, Mumbai and now Jaipur have borne the brunt of these attacks sending a chill up India’s spine each time.
May. 12 - One of the worst earthquakes since 1976 strikes western China, with reports of hundreds buried under collapsed buildings.
Initial reports, after the quake struck on Monday (12 May 2008) put the death toll at just above one hundred, but with many hundreds of school students buried under collapsed buildings. The quake, of magnitude 7.8, hit Sichuan province but its effects were felt in the capital, Beijing and as far away as Thailand. State television said Premier Wen Jiabao was flying to Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.
In Moscow's Red Square, the Russian military stages a display of weaponry not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The event has involved 8,000 troops, tanks, missiles launchers and aircraft.
It was the first major public appearance for Russia's new president Dmitry Medvedev standing alongside Vladimir Putin, newly installed as prime minister. The display marks the 63rd anniversary of Russia's World War Two victory.
Chile ordered hold-out residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to remove them by force if they refuse to obey.
The surprise eruption of the long dormant 3,280-foot (1,000-meter) Chaiten volcano has forced the evacuation within a 30-mile (50-km) radius of the volcano, including more than 4,500 residents of Chaiten six miles from it.
Pavithra George reports.
SOUNDBITE: Chaiten refugee, Marco Fernandez, saying, (Spanish): "What us men at least are going to need is work. And I think that if we can't go back to our homes in Chaiten, why don't they just tell us? Because if Chaiten disappears how are we going to live? This is the only stuff we managed to bring out."
The state government of Rajasthan has developed an insurance scheme for camels with the progressive decline in number of this animal. Camel owners can recover the entire cost of his animal if it dies in an accident or due to a disease.
Camels are being replaced by mechanized modes of transport in the dessert region and many are even being sent to the Gulf for slaughter for their meat.
- Experts say Chile's Chaiten volcano could belch out ash for months to come.
Some experts say it could rumble on for years. Residents have been evacuated from the surrounding area after the long dormant volcano began erupting several days ago for the first time in thousands of years. Located in the country's southern Patagonia region, Chaiten has showered towns as far away as neighbouring Argentina in ash.
More than 100,000 people are now thought to have perished in a powerful Cyclone which devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta region.
A U.S. diplomat said he'd received the information, which sharply revised upwards the official death toll from 22,000.
International pressure is growing on Myanmar's military rulers to allow a full-scale relief operation to be mounted. The U.N. is warning that one million people are homeless and in urgent need of help.
Helen Long reports.
SOUNDBITES: Scott Marciel, U.S. Ambassador for Asean Affairs
Richard Horsey, UN's Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
May 7 - The joke's on George W Bush as a satirical play in Amritsar lampoons the US President's recent comments about India's role in rising global food prices.
May 7 - India is to test the Agni III, a home-grown, long-range nuclear missile capable of hitting targets more than 3000km away, including deep into China.
An Arab newspaper publishes excerpts from Saddam Hussein’s prison diaries, including the ousted Iraqi leader’s fear of contracting AIDS while in captivity.
May 5 - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton face crucial tests in their grueling White House fight on Tuesday, when voters in Indiana and North Carolina cast ballots in the latest Democratic showdowns.
May 5 - A five year old boy shows off his daredevil skills by skating under moving cars.
Skating into the record books P. Obeadh skated 100 times under five moving cars.
Skating back and forth and getting as low as he possibly could to the ground, the five year old amazed the crowds who had gathered to watch him break a record in limbo-skating.
May 5 - Mumbai Police are considering whether to take legal action against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, if they find any provocative content in a recent speech about north Indians.
A devastating cyclone killed nearly 4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm.
The death toll only covered two of the five disaster zones where U.N. officials said hundreds of thousands of people were without shelter and drinking water in the impoverished Southeast Asian country.
"The confirmed number is 3,934 dead, 41 injured and 2,879 missing within the Yangon and Irrawaddy divisions," Myanmar TV reported three days after Cyclone Nargis, a storm with winds of 190 kph (120 mph), hit the Irrawaddy delta.
Earlier, official reports put the death toll at 351, but the number of casualties had been expected to rise as authorities made contact with hard-hit islands and villages in the delta, the rice bowl for the nation of 53 million.
The military, which has ruled for 46 years and is shunned by the West, has not yet issued an appeal for international aid.
Its leaders, in the isolated new capital of Naypyidaw, 400 km (240 miles) north of Yangon, said they would go ahead with a May 10 referendum on a new army-drafted constitution that critics say will entrench the military.
The last major storm to ravage Asia was Cyclone Sidr which killed 3,300 people in Bangladesh last November.
In the former capital Yangon, food and fuel prices have soared as aid agencies scrambled to deliver emergency supplies and assess the damage in the five declared disaster zones, home to 24 million people.
"How many people are affected? We know that it's in the six figures," Richard Horsey, of the U.N. disaster response office, told Reuters after an emergency aid meeting in Bangkok on Monday before the state TV announcement.
"We know that it's several hundred thousand needing shelter and clean drinking water, but how many hundred thousand we just don't know."
CRITICAL
The U.N. office in Yangon said there was an urgent need for plastic sheeting, water purification tablets, cooking equipment, mosquito nets, health kits and food.
It said the situation outside Yangon was "critical, with shelter and safe water being the principal immediate needs".
Thailand responded to the disaster, sending a C-130 transport plane loaded with 9 tonnes of food and medicine to Yangon after the airport reopened on Monday.
In Yangon, many roofs were ripped off even sturdy buildings, suggesting damage would be severe in the shanty towns that lie on the outskirts of the city of 5 million people.
Clean water was scarce. Most shops had sold out of candles and batteries and there was no word when power would be restored.
Long queues formed at the few open petrol stations. The price of a gallon of petrol has doubled on the black market, while egg prices have tripled since Saturday.
A two-year-old girl from Bhagalpur in North India enjoys eating pebbles and munching on bricks with a helping of green chillies on the side! After being on this diet for eight months, she is said to be fit as a fiddle.
