Lining up for `total' freedom
Millions of South Africans voted patiently and peacefully on Wednesday in the watershed second all-race elections which brought the curtains down on the illustrious Nelson Mandela era and ushered in that of his likely successor Thabo Mbeki.

Nine dead in US plane crash
Nine people were killed overnight in the fiery crash of an American Airlines MD-80 jetliner with 145 people aboard here overnight, a Federal official said on Wednesday, quoting the coroner's office.

Serbian parliament accepts peace plan
The Serbian parliament today accepted a peace plan for Kosovo put to Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic by EU and Russian envoys, assembly sources said.

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