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By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - At least 5,000 monks and nuns, applauded by thousands of onlookers, marched in Myanmar's capital on Sunday, the largest demonstrations yet in a rare wave of protests against the country's ruling generals. A day after a dramatic appearance of support for the marchers by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, monks prayed at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devou ...

By Adam Entous JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel agreed on Sunday to free another 90 Palestinian prisoners to try to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood, officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet approved the release in principle and said a ministerial committee would meet later on Sunday to finalise the list of prisoners. The ...

By Dominic Evans and Paul Tait BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will not rush to expel U.S. firm Blackwater, under investigation over a shooting which killed 11 Iraqis, because it would leave a "security vacuum" in Baghdad, a government official said on Sunday. The shooting in western Baghdad last Sunday incensed Iraqis and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to freeze the work of Blackwater, which employ ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A four-year-old boy has been stabbed to death and a 14-year-old girl left with serious stab wounds, police said on Sunday. West Yorkshire Police were called to a property in the village of Slaithwaite near Huddersfield at around 1pm, a spokeswoman said. The injured boy and girl were taken to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, where the boy died a short time later. The girl is being ...

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Buddhist nuns joined monks in growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday while the United States denounced the military leadership as brutal. A day after a dramatic appearance of support for the marchers by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, about 100 nuns joined more than 2,000 monks in prayer at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutly  ...

By Dominic Evans and Paul Tait BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will not take immediate steps to expel U.S. security firm Blackwater, under investigation over a shooting which killed 11 Iraqis a week ago, a government security official said on Sunday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had vowed to freeze the work of Blackwater, which employs about 1,000 people guarding the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, after the s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bluetongue virus found in a cow in eastern England is the same strain which has been found in parts of northern Europe, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the case -- Britain's first -- was not a confirmed outbreak unless further investigation showed that disease was circulating and said that could tak ...

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches. About 100 nuns joined more than 2,000 monks to pray at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutly Buddhist Myanmar's holiest shrine, before marching to the ce ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A newspaper said on Sunday Israeli commandos seized North Korean nuclear material in Syria to help secure U.S. approval for an Israeli air strike that destroyed a suspect weapons plant on September 6. The Sunday Times report, citing Israeli and U.S. sources, was the latest version of an incident shrouded by contradictory accounts from officials and diplomats and by Israeli milit ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A millionaire businessman has joined Virgin boss Richard Branson in providing financial backing to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann as they attempt to clear their names. Brian Kennedy, who is estimated to be worth about 250 million pounds, said on Sunday he felt compelled to help Gerry and Kate McCann fight the "incredible accusations" against them. The McCanns daughter w ...