TWO MINUTES OF TERROR: The quake struck southeast of the capital at around dinner time, killing hundreds of people and leaving more than 1,000 others injured
A powerful earthquake shook Peru's central coast, terrifying the capital's residents and killing at least 337 people in cities farther south, Health Minister Carlos Vallejos said early yesterday. More than 1,000 others were injured, he said.

[ FULL STORY ]

By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Jimmy Chuang
Taipei Prosecutor Hou Kuan-jen (侯寬仁) yesterday demanded an apology from Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his defense counsel Song Yao-ming (宋耀明) for alleging that Hou had purposefully mistranscribed a witness' statements in Ma's corruption trial.

[ FULL STORY ]

BATTEN THE HATCHES: If it holds its course, the powerful typhoon could affect the country early today and make landfall in the southeast tonight
The Central Weather Bureau followed up its sea warning for Typhoon Sepat yesterday morning with a land warning at 8:30pm last night as the storm continued to approach.

[ FULL STORY ]

Iran yesterday dismissed a US plan to list its elite Revolutionary Guard as a terror group in a bid to strangle the economic influence of one of the Islamic republic's key institutions.

[ FULL STORY ]

Rescuers used bare hands and shovels on Wednesday to claw through the wreckage of clay houses as the death toll rose to at least 250 in a string of suicide bombings against an ancient religious sect, making it the deadliest such attack of the war. The US military blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq and a commander called it an "act of ethnic cleansing."

[ FULL STORY ]

By Loa Iok-sin
A taxi driver was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was mutilated and dumped in a cemetery.

[ FULL STORY ]