AP - A twin-engine plane crashed in the heart of this resort town Monday, killing all four people aboard and setting fire to a building near the main drag of tourist nightclubs, theaters and music halls.

AP - Early results Thursday put the ruling African National Congress well ahead in local elections, despite voter unhappiness with the rate of progress in improving the lives of poor blacks.

Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily - London - Cross-dressing has never looked so effortlessly chic and modern as it did at today's Paul Smith show, held at London's Royal Horticultural Halls.

AP - Washington has gotten a makeover — of sorts. From the marble Supreme Court steps and halls of Congress to the interest-rate setting Federal Reserve, new faces have replaced well-known ones that had become institutions in a town full of them. Yet there is a sameness to the changes in two of the three branches of government.

Reuters - Blasts rocked slot machine halls in the Russian Caucasus town Vladikavkaz, wounding at least eight people, the local Emergencies Ministry said on Thursday.