Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities today in what was expected to be the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has led to violence in the streets and threatens to weaken the government.

Police and education authorities shut down 45 private schools across Zimbabwe today in a long-running dispute over fees.

The Burmese military government brought detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the capital Yangon today after it also closed the offices of her party, held key supporters and ordered universities shut across Myanmar.

A DISGRUNTLED Education Ministry employee opened fire at colleagues at a ministry office in Lebanon yesterday, killing eight people and wounding five before he was apprehended

Israeli forces raided several villages overnight and arrested 26 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror attacks, the Israeli military said today.

Police have raided the Tokyo headquarters of a Japanese ultra-left faction in connection with last week's bomb attack on the office of nationalist history textbook authors.