Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary of A-bomb attack

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s increasingly unpopular government faces a test at the polls after a high-profile legislator and author of best-selling “chick-lit” romantic fiction said she was quitting for family reasons.

Two Sudanese soldiers were killed when the army moved in to restore order in a Darfur town after unrest that followed the killing in an ambush of a local official, state-linked media said on Sunday.

A rebel group that has fought for the independence of Angola’s oil-producing northern enclave of Cabinda for nearly four decades wants to hold talks with the Angolan government after national elections on Aug. 31, its leader said.

A suicide bomber in a car rammed into a military patrol Sunday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, killing himself, at least six soldiers and a civilian, authorities said.

Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island, killing an emergency worker and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said.

Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in India’s northeast desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some of the worst communal violence in a decade, officials and aid workers said Monday.

Villagers in northwestern Cambodia unearthed what authorities say could be a mass grave from the Khmer Rouge era that contains skulls and the bones of corpses — some with legs bound by rope.

Rescue workers searched Monday for more than 100 people trapped by a mudslide in southwestern China, while in another part of the country 400 workers were trapped by a flood in a railway tunnel.

Kashmiri women carry firewood-filled baskets as they wait to enter a wood depot in Srinagar, Monday.