A massive international aid effort for devastated Burma was being kept on hold by the country’s secretive ruling military toda

International aid began to trickle into Burma, but the stricken Irrawaddy delta, the nation’s rice bowl where 22,000 people perished and twice as many are missing, remained cut off from the world.

A UN envoy is hoping to meet Burma's top two military leaders today to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Taking a break from shooting a film about the life of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, actress Angelina Jolie spent the weekend in the Indian capital playing another role – goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.