A legal adviser for the National League for Democracy (NLD) has been assassinated at a Burma airport after returning from a trip overseas, the government said.

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Two people died when a plane packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Burma today.

A strong earthquake struck northern Burma today, causing a bridge and a gold mine to collapse, damaging several ancient Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.

Crowds have turned out in cities across Burma to publicly commemorate the 24th anniversary of pro-democracy protests, which for the first time won approval, and partial funding, from the government.

Burma’s military rulers today lifted a curfew and ended a ban on assembly, which were imposed last month during a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Burmese protestors in the country’s biggest city Rangoon are keeping up a low-key resistance against the country’s military regime.

Protesters ventured out onto the streets of Rangoon today in defiance of a brutal military crackdown by the Burmese regime.

There were signs that pro-democracy protests could be weakening in Burma after soldiers and police took control of the streets, firing warning shots to scatter the few demonstrators who ventured out and sealing off Buddhist monasteries.

Soldiers in Burma opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters today, killing at least nine people and injuring 11.

Violence erupted for a second day in Burma today with troops pouring rifle fire into crowds of anti-government demonstrators.

Burma’s anti-government protests turned ugly today with troops firing warning shots and tear gas into crowds of demonstrators.

Police in riot gear fired warning shots to disperse more than 100 Buddhist monks who defied the Burmese military government’s ban on public assembly today by trying to penetrate a barricade blocking Rangoon’s famed Shwedagon Pagoda.

SOLDIERS, including an army division that took part in the brutal suppression of a 1988 uprising, converged on Burma’s largest city after thousands of monks and sympathisers defied government orders to stay out of politics and protested once again yesterday.

Buddhist monks spearheading Burma's biggest anti-government marches in nearly two decades defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics and relaunched their protests in the country's two biggest cities today.

The US is poised today to impose additional sanctions against Burma's military rulers after they issued a veiled threat to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations.

Monks leading the biggest public protest staged in Burma for nearly 20 years were today warned of a government crackdown.

An estimated 100,000 people joined Buddhist monks today in the biggest public protest to hit Burma's streets for decades.

Buddhist nuns swelled the forces of anti-government protesters in Burma as up to 20,000 people took to the streets.

The wave of anti-government demonstrations sweeping Burma touched the doorstep of the country's democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi today, as Buddhist monks allowed to march past her home today said they were greeted by the detained political leader.

About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Burma’s central city of Mandalay today, witnesses said, as a month-long protest against the country’s military government picked up new steam.

Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested today outside the locked gates of Burma’s most revered temple, challenging the country’s military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.

Bird flu in Burma is more serious than originally thought, with 100 outbreaks detected in the country since the deadly avian virus was first confirmed last month, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agency said today.

Burma and India have announced culls of thousands of poultry to curb the spread of bird flu, while Sweden has confirmed its first cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in two wild birds.

War-torn Afghanistan today pleaded for protective clothing for its staff after the first possible cases of bird flu were detected, as Azerbaijan reported three people killed by the deadly disease.

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected for the first time in chickens in Myanmar (formerly Burma), veterinary officials said today.

Foreign diplomats and UN representatives are bewildered by Burma’s secretive military regime transferring its government ministries out of Rangoon, in a bizarre move analysts say is driven by fears of an American attack.

Ethnic rebels exploded bombs almost simultaneously at two busy supermarkets and a convention centre in Myanmar’s capital, Yangon, today, killing 11 people and wounding 162 others, state television reported.

A bomb exploded at a busy market in Burma’s second-largest city today, killing at least two people and wounding 14 others, an official said.