The Kenyan airliner believed to have crashed in Cameroon on Saturday with 114 people aboard has been found, Kenya television broadcaster KTN reported citing official Cameroonian sources.

The United States Friday emphasized the importance of the latest international report on global warming, but said it would not adopt corrective actions that would seriously damage the economy. A team of US government climate experts were reacting to the third phase report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released earlier in the day in Bangkok.

Pressed by Congress to bring troops home from Iraq, US President George W. Bush defined success as reducing - not stopping - the country's deadly sectarian violence.

Washington - A congressional oversight panel voted Wednesday to issue a subpoena compelling US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify about now discredited pre-war allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions.

The UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) Governing Council kicked off its 21st session in Nairobi on Monday with a call for improving quality of life to achieve sustainable urban development.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday warned of disassociating his country from the international coalition against terrorism if its commitment and sincerity to the fight was going to be continuously questioned.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on security forces in the Gaza Strip to stop homemade rocket attacks by militants against Israel.

The US military has no plans to release five Iranians held in Iraq who are accused of providing material support to militants responsible for attacks on US troops, said US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

The Centre for Social Change International, an organisation supporting the cause of people suffering from developmental disabilities, plans to add six more units in India and open new ones in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Ghana.