The bodies of 17 women and children who disappeared over the last two years have been discovered in a house in an upscale suburb of the Indian capital. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the case has triggered public outrage at the failure of police to investigate the disappearances.

Police in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, are reported to have found 45 dead bodies.

A group of Congolese soldiers is on trial for war crimes allegedly committed in the country's volatile east. U.N. investigators last month discovered mass graves containing around 30 bodies, including women and children, inside an army camp. Joe Bavier has more for VOA from Kinshasa.

Brazilian police say at least 16 people have been killed in a series of attacks on police stations and public buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's group has accused U.S. forces of killing a senior member of the group, and has called for a government investigation.

British and Iraqi forces today raided one of the main police stations in the southern city of Al-Basrah, killing at least seven armed men.

A British court has ordered the prime suspect in the murder of five prostitutes in eastern England held in custody pending further hearings in his case.

A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force says NATO and Afghan forces have killed about 50 Taleban insurgents in an operation in southern Afghanistan.

The Philippines, long known for having the freest and boldest press in Asia, has become one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists, trailing only Iraq in the number of reporters killed. The head of the Philippines' National Union of Journalists was in Hong Kong to talk about an environment where journalists are targets for assassination and political intimidation. Claudia Blume reports.