Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early today, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation.

FOUR more bodies were found yesterday in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to six, Brazil’s military said.

AS Brazil and France disagreed last night about whether pieces of a downed Air France jet have been found in the Atlantic, investigators used the last messages from the plane to try to avoid future disasters.

Former United States President Bill Clinton today slammed what he called the “unilateral” foreign policy of the Bush administration.

Little Georgia were unable to repeat their Aussie Stadium heroics against Uruguay today as the South Americans held sway in the battle of the Pool C minnows.

Uruguayan coach Diego Ormaechea, whose side returned from the last World Cup with a win under their belts after beating Spain, is adamant Uruguay are learning and will emerge a better team once their campaign is over.

The sort of film this is - young woman seeks escape from her penetratingly annoying, loud and slightly mad Mexican family - needs a more constraining hand upon it than Cardoso manages.

POLICE will take action against a Senegalese World Cup footballer Khalilou Fadiga for stealing a $240 gold necklace from a shop, a news report said.

The chairman of Andersen Worldwide’s Board of Partners took over as acting chief executive today to try to manage an orderly dismemberment of the crisis-ridden company’s non-US operations.

Andersen Worldwide has appointed Aldo Cardoso as acting chief executive.

Six people have been charged with killing of one of Mozambique's best-known journalists.