More than 400 people have died from heatstroke in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in the last three days, officials have said.

President Alvaro Uribe has swine flu and officials are contacting other South American governments whose leaders attended a summit last week with the Colombian leader, authorities said.

Emergency teams were working today to rescue 30 children after a footbridge collapsed in Peru’s highlands, plunging the youngsters and their teachers more than 230 feet into a ravine and killing at least eight people.

US forces clashed with insurgents southeast of the Iraqi capital in fighting that left up to five civilians dead.