AFP – The settlers sang, danced and drank themselves into a stupor, ignoring the growing outrage of the Palestinians who make up the vast majority of this West Bank town.

Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser.

MANSEHRA Sunday, February 28, 2010 (IRIN) – A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan early on the morning of 28 February, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicentre was in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, about 175 km northeast of Kabul, USGS said.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he is keeping a close eye on the situation in the Pacific Ocean after a huge earthquake rocked Chile this morning, threatening to send tsunamis crashing through the region.

A gathering of high-level international officials to Sudan, led by the head of the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping operation in the country&#39s war-torn Darfur region, today urged all armed groups involved in the conflict to join the peace process initiated earlier this week by Khartoum and a major rebel militia.