World - A new, and perhaps the deadliest, confrontation between the war allies United States, Britain and the world has emerged recently with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court stating that the war leaders, Bush and Blair, could face war crimes charges in the Hague.

Baghdad - The former vice president of Iraq, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged shortly before last Tuesday. He was the highest-ranking person from Saddam Hussein's government to be executed after the former president himself.

Panama City - Panamanian police seized a boat off the nation's Pacific coast carrying 21.4 tons of cocaine in one of the biggest maritime cocaine busts anywhere on record. National police working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized the boat on Sunday near the island of Coiba.

Geneva - Pollution, global warming and rampant development could destroy some of the world's most iconic rivers in the coming decades, threatening to wipe out thousands of fish species and cause severe water shortages, the World Wide Fund for Nature stated in a report released Tuesday.

Moscow - Rescuers on Tuesday searched for 13 miners missing nearly a day after a methane gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 97 people in Russia's deadliest mining disaster in a decade.