LONDON (AFP) - Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.
LONDON (AFP) - Hospitals treating troops wounded by Afghan insurgents are under growing pressure, a watchdog warned on Wednesday, ahead of a major offensive expected to trigger a fresh surge in casualties.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Taher al-Mazlum is desperate to join the Hamas-run police in the Gaza Strip, not because he agrees with the Islamist group's hardline ideology, but because he needs money to get married.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has sent Britain a petition calling for posthumous pardons for two soldiers court-martialled and executed more than 100 years ago in South Africa, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
KABUL (AFP) - Another 39 bodies were recovered Wednesday from the site of avalanches on a treacherous mountain pass in northern Afghanistan, bringing the official death toll from the disaster to 68, an army doctor said.