China said today it won’t talk to Taiwan’s president until his party drops a clause in its constitution calling for formal independence for the island.

A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said today.

White farmers threatened with eviction in Zimbabwe today reported a wave of threats and intimidation by government officials and ruling party militants trying to force them out of their homes.

Zimbabwe’s government yesterday said it had accepted an offer of 531 white-owned farms for the resettlement of landless black people.

Dozens of Daewoo car factory workers in South Korea have clashed with riot police during a rally to protest against mass lay-offs.