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U.N. Pleas With Burma on Aid, Death Toll at 78,000
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday that the death toll from Cyclone Nargis will increase dramatically unless Myanmar's military government allows more aid into the country to help victims at risk of disease.
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Zimbabwe Presidential Runoff to Be Held June 27
An election runoff between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai runoff will be held June 27, the electoral commission said in an announcement published Friday.
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Woman's Mummified Body Found 35 Years After She Died
Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died.