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Roughly 2,500 people swarmed over a 150,000-pound pile of Roma tomatoes and started launching them at each other, marking the beginning of the second annual La Tomatina in Reno, Nevada on Sunday.

n the southern Philippines, gunmen dressed as police have killed four people on a bus they flagged down. Two of the dead were police marshals. The bus was travelling through a city where Muslim rebels operate when it was stopped. After opening fire, the attackers set the vehicle on fire and fled. The violence comes just days after an ex-policeman in Manila took a coach load of Hong Kong tourists hostage, killing eight.

Police in Mexico are investigating whether the bodies of 72 people found murdered were those of illegal migrants. The war between various drug gangs and security forces has been notoriously bloody, but this massacre seems particularly gruesome. The bodies were found piled on a property about 150-kilometres from the Texan border.

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks, has categorically denied Swedish sexual abuse charges launched against him. The country's prosecution authority has dropped an arrest warrant for a rape charge, but a separate molestation accusation is still under investigation. WikiLeaks has been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents.And despite warnings from the Pentagon, the website is preparing to release a fresh batch of classified documents. In an exlusive interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said that the accusations are part of a "smear campaign" against him.

Swedish prosecutors have told Al Jazeera that they did not make a mistake when they issued an arrest warrant, which was later quickly withdrawn, for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on a rape charge. Assange's supporters say the accusations are part of a dirty tricks campaign. WikiLeaks has been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents. And despite warnings from the Pentagon, the website is preparing to release a fresh batch of classified documents. In an exclusive interview, Karin Rosander, a Swedish prosecutor, told Al Jazeera that no errors had been made in launching charges against Assange.

The founder of the Wikileaks website Julian Assange has been accused of rape in Sweden. Authorities say they have issued a warrant for his arrest. The website has said the charges are "without basis" and that they had previously been warned to expect "dirty tricks". Assange was in Sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower website is set to publish a final batch of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.

In a shocking case of corporal punishment, a 7-year-old student in Rajasthan was allegedly beaten so badly by her teacher that she has lost vision in her left eye

A bull has injured 40 people after leaping into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring in the northern town of Tafalla.

A young woman emerged unscathed when two cars swerved onto the pavement she was walking along. A mini-van driving full-speed hit a Lada on a crossroads. After colliding, both cars turned around and smashed into the nearby building. The woman heard the sound of collision and rushed back just in time to avoid the horrific blow: she literally jumped from under the wheels.

Flood survivors in Pakistan are falling victim to water-borne diseases. Doctors fear they may soon face an epidemic. Children are being hit hardest. Disease is the latest risk for survivors of Pakistan's worst floods in decades.

Phillip "The Craiglist Killer" Markoff died in a Massachusetts jail after committing suicide while awaiting trial on murder charges. Jeff Glor reports.

Weak global demand for Japan's products has seen its growth slow to a mere .1 per cent.

Controversy over the fate of two Denver police officers caught beating two men on tape. There are also claims of a cover-up, as a police camera moved away from the scene as the incident became violent.

At a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, President Obama spoke out on the controversy over a community center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York. Elaine Quijano reports.

On the first Friday prayers in Ramadan, the Muslim Holy Month, thousands of Palestinians flocked towards the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to attend prayers. But, as is often the case, many were not allowed inside to pray.

A car bomb that exploded outside a major radio station shook Colombia's capital on Thursday, injuring at least 9 people, police said. No deaths were reported.

Doctors say they have found a pea sprouting in the lung of a 75-year-old man Massachusetts. They feared he had a cancerous tumor.

A US flight attendant who abused passengers after a heated exchange on the tarmac has received overwhelming support for his actions on the internet.

Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who flipped out over a fight with an agitated traveler Monday, has been charged with felonies and elevated to folk-hero status by those who shrugged off allegations that Slater endangered others.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that Iran has started the next stage toward building a nuclear bomb. The IAEA says the Islamic state has developed a second set of centrifuges, which can enrich uranium to the 20 per cent threshhold which experts fear can be turned into weapons-grade material. If enriched to around 95 percent, uranium can be used in building an atomic bomb. Tehran insists its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only. Sadegh Zibakalam, a Tehran-based professor of political science says the international community has no grounds for concern over Iran's nuclear developments.

A flight attendant looked pleased and relieved after cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system, grabbing some beer from the galley and using an emergency slide to hop off.

At least 337 are dead, and rescuers are digging through mud and wreckage in northwestern China looking for 1,100 people missing after a series of flash floods and landslides.

Mia Farrow testified at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial Monday that model Naomi Campbell told her she had been sent a "huge diamond" by the former Liberian ruler in 1997, contradicting Campbell's evidence last week

Hiroshima is marking the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack. More than 140-thousand people died in the blast, or from radiation poisoning, after the U.S. dropped the bomb in the final days of the Second World War. RT's Sean Thomas reports from Hiroshima.

Fears are growing of an outbreak of diseases in parts of flood-ridden Pakistan

The United Nations has called for calm after five people died in fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border.

A woman has been charged with stabbing her nieces while baby-sitting them at their upscale Westchester County home

MEXICO - Top Mexican drug boss killed in clash with army. Mexican troops have killed one of the country's most-wanted drug traffickers in a shootout in the western city of Guadalajara, ending the run of a man known as the "King of Ice" for his multimillion-dollar amphetamine business.

Dutch troops are pulling their last soldiers out of Afghanistan after a four-year mission of helping Nato troops combat Taliban fighters in the country. Nato's request for an extension of the mission sparked a political row that led to the Dutch government's collapse in February and the announced drawdown. The 2,000 Dutch soldiers that were deployed in Afghanistan will be replaced by a US-led coalition force including Australian, Slovak and Singaporean soldiers.