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Australia is sending hundreds more troops and 50 police to East Timor to try to contain raging mob violence. A dispute over the sacking of army staff has turned into ethnic violence, with militias, toting guns and machetes, torching houses and vehicles. A BBC correspondent says foreign troops have helped restore calm to the capital Dili, but that East Timor remains a frightened country. The reinforcements take Australia's presence on the ground to 1,800 troops. That eclipses the 1,300 Austra ...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Angelina Jolie gave birth to Brad Pitt's daughter Saturday in Africa, Pitt's publicist announced. "The night of May 27, 2006 in Namibia, Africa, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. No further information is being given," publicist Cindy Guagenti said in a statement. No photographs were being released, she added. The baby's arrival had been the subject of intense press speculation in recent months, compelling  ...

Film director Michael Winner has said he turned down an OBE in the Queen's 80th birthday honours' list. He told the Sunday Times newspaper, for which he is a columnist: "An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station." Mr Winner was offered the honour because of his campaign for a permanent memorial to police officers killed in the line of duty, the paper says. But he told the Sunday Times: "I really don't care if I get anything or not." Mr Winner, 70, added: "I ...

Labour MP Ann Clwyd has attacked fellow party members who "continually snipe" at its leadership. Speaking from Baghdad, Tony Blair's special envoy to Iraq added speculation about his departure from Downing Street had given people abroad the wrong idea. "A small number of individuals are giving the idea there is a big rift in the Labour party," she told BBC News. If members wanted Labour's "very strong programme" to succeed they should unite to give it every support, she added. "I talk to mor ...

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) -- A man killed his two young children Saturday by throwing them off the 15th floor of a landmark South Beach hotel and then jumped to his own death, police said. Edward Van Dyk, 43, tossed his two sons, ages 4 and 8, to their deaths around 8:20 a.m., Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said. Authorities did not release the names of the two boys. The mother of  ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Hundreds of injured men, women and children packed the grounds of Sardjito Hospital in this historic city Saturday, stretched out on pieces of bloody cardboard, as cries of agony pierced the evening air. Several relatives read the Quran to victims as they anxiously awaited treatment. But the staff was stretched to its limits by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 3,000 people and injured thousands when it struck central Java island. (Full story) "We  ...

Doctors have issued a warning about severe heart problems associated with chewing Khat leaves. The dangers of the drug have been highlighted by the case of a young man who suffered a major heart attack. Long-term use could also increase risk of liver damage, and oesophageal cancer, warns a report in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The Home Office has ruled out a ban on the drug - a mild stimulant which is popular in the Somali community. Writing in the journal, doctors from the ...

CANTON, Georgia (AP) -- About 75 veterans and their families gathered under a pavilion Saturday for the first Memorial Day observance at the nation's newest national cemetery. "To be able to honor the Georgia veterans who have wanted this for so long -- it's been a great experience to help them," said Sandra Beckley, director of the Georgia National Cemetery. Open since April 24, the $28 million cemetery already has had 176 burials of veterans who fought in conflicts from World War  ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- More than 3,000 people have died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck central Java in Indonesia early Saturday, and casualty figures are expected to rise. Finding the dead and injured, and removing rubble from collapsed buildings is being complicated by a shortage of earth-moving equipment and electric power outages in the area. "My daughter here was buried under the rubble. We got her out, but we could not save my other daughter. ... It was just horrible ...