Reuters: Mob kill 30 in Kenyan Church 02 January

Witnesses said the charred bodies included women and children. Local residents said 200 people had been seeking refuge at the church.

About a dozen people have been killed in the latest outbreak of violence. It brings the death toll to more than 850 since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed Dec. 27 election triggered turmoil that has taken on an ethnic momentum of its own. Annan, bringing together Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, said he hoped the immediate political issues could be resolved within four weeks.

Nairobi residents are facing a shortage of food as Kenya's main port struggles to cope with a huge backlog of cargo at Mombassa Port.

Sudan says its forces attacked three remote towns in west Darfur - Sirba, Abu Surouj and Suleia - to force the rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement, the JEM, out of the area. Rebel forces occupied the area in December.

The Myanmar cyclone has killed more than 15,000 people, the secretive nation said Tuesday, amid fears thousands of others are also dead in one of Asia's worst natural disasters. With the military junta under fire over its handling of the tragedy, foreign aid teams described scenes of horror -- rice fields littered with corpses, and desperate survivors without food or shelter four days after the storm struck.

A Long Island church has $3 million more dollars in its coffers after a donation from an anonymous parishioner. (Aug. 28)

Once again the Swedish retail giant H&M has created mayhem at its stores with its operation to democratize elite designer labels by bringing them in-house. This time it was Italy's Roberto Cavalli, known for his form-fitting dresses, who designed a collection for the group. The launch of the line, limited to only a handful of Hennis and Moritz stores in Northern Europe, created a near-stampede as fashionistas rushed to scoop up as many of Cavalli's 20 items as possible. H&M began its luxury line operations with a collection by Karl Lagerfeld in 2004, followed by Stella McCartney and Viktor and Rolf. Images of the crowds at H&M's main Amsterdam store.

Many of the victims were asphyxiated by toxic fumes from the blazing matresses but rioting inside the jail at Santiago del Estero where rioting has continued on Monday (November 5th).

The fire comes as Chile is suffering its worst drought in decades. Rainfall has dropped to one of its lowest levels in half a century.