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By Crack Palinggi YOGYAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake that shook the area around Indonesia's ancient royal city of Yogyakarta on Saturday killed more than 1,500, a government official said. Yogyakarta provincial secretary Bambang Susanto Prihardi, speaking on Elshinta news radio, gave an area-by-area breakdown of casualties totalling 1,555. Asked if that was the current toll, Prihardi said "yes". Other government and hospital officials said earlier that many people remained buried or trapped ...

Cinema owners in Gujarat have refused to show Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's latest film, fearing protests about Khan's criticism of a big dam project. Fanaa, a film about a romance between a blind girl and a tour guide opened across India on Friday. The youth arm of the state's ruling party, the BJP, has led protests and asked Khan to withdraw his comments. Khan had called on the government to adequately compensate people displaced by construction of the Narmada dam. He has refused to withd ...

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) - McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has assured 20-year-old Lewis Hamilton that he will be driving in Formula One before long. "He will be in Formula One, there's no question of that," Dennis told Reuters at the Monaco Grand Prix. "And I'll be delighted to see him succeed because it was more an experiment than an investment." Hamilton, on pole position for the GP2 s ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Relief and rescue crews and medical teams on Saturday raced to help the victims of the strong earthquake that rocked the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta and adjacent areas along the southern coast of Indonesia's Java island. The 6.2 magnitude quake that struck just before 6 a.m. (7 p.m. ET, 11 p.m. GMT Friday) shook and rippled through a heavily populated region, killing hundreds, injuring many more, and leveling and damaging thousands of structures. Officials put  ...

By Matthew Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The Home Office is looking into reports that hundreds of mentally-ill criminals have been released from secure mental hospitals without being considered for deportation. The Sun said on Saturday that police were trying to track down 500 foreign nationals, including rapists, murderers and child sex offenders, who have been released from mental hospitals. The H ...

"The whole world just sits back and allows this country to languish in terrible, terrible suffering and millions of people need us to pay far more attention to their desperate, desperate needs." She said conditions were worsening in the country known to its ruling group as Myanmar. Mrs Kinnock said there were 16,000 displaced people because of extensive military action in the east of the country, as well as more than 1,000 political prisoners. Meanwhile it was not possible to get humanitarian ...

Sir Alex Ferguson has told Wayne Rooney he needs to be careful as he tries to recover and play in the World Cup. The Manchester United striker will definitely miss England's group stage games - after a scan revealed he cannot train for at least another three weeks. Manchester United boss Ferguson said: "Wayne has to look after himself by ensuring he is getting the proper rest. "He must wear his orthopaedic boot at the right time, especially in training. Wayne's young, he doesn't feel pain."  ...

YOGYAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake that shook the area around Indonesia's ancient royal city of Yogyakarta on Saturday killed at least 1,555, a government official said. Yogyakarta provincial secretary Bambang Susanto Prihardi said "yes" when asked by Elshinta news radio whether the count had reached that number. Other government and hospital officials said earlier that many people remained buried or trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, while more deaths might be going unreported ...

A number of people have been injured during a disturbance in County Antrim. Police were called to the Ballinderry Road area of Lisburn at about 0145 BST and dispersed a crowd of about 40 people. Six people were treated in hospital following the disturbance, including one man who had serious injuries to his face and legs. Detectives investigating what sparked the trouble have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.

LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the stabbing of a 14-year-old schoolboy in Birmingham have arrested two teenage boys, West Midlands Police said on Saturday. A police spokeswoman said the two 16-year-olds were being questioned about the attack, which occurred at lunchtime on Friday, just two days after a knife amnesty began in a bid to take thousands of weapons off the streets. The stabbing happened at Heartlands High School in the Nechells area of the city, police said. The boy, stabbe ...