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An airliner with more than 200 passengers and crew on board has burst into flames after landing at Khartoum Airport in Sudan. Many people managed to escape. Reports from the airport are confused, but it is thought that about half  those on board were killed. Amber Henshaw reports from Khartoum.

Despite poor weather conditions in the Sudanese capital, the Sudan Airway's plane managed to land at Khartoum International Airport. Officials say the aircraft was taxing to the terminal when a fire started in one of the engines. Flames rapidly engulfed the aircraft. A senior government official said they believed 100 of the 200 passengers had survived. Sudan has a poor aviation history. 24 people were killed last month on a privately chartered plane. 115 were killed in the Sudan Airway's crash five years ago.

Three of the biggest Internet service providers in the United States have agreed to block access to child pornography websites. In an uNPRecedented move, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to shut down websites that carry images of child sexual abuse. In France, all service providers agreed to block access to child porn sites from September. Nick Miles reports.

Several organizations and governments around the world work with the international policing organization, Interpol, which has played a key role in tracking down the people who spread and view child pornography. Now governments have begun trying to block its supply as well. A number of European nations, including Britain and Sweden, along with Canada and New Zealand, have reached agreements with Internet service providers to block child porn sites. The announcements from New York and France add momentum to that strategy. But because of its rapidly changing nature, policing the Internet is notoriously difficult.

Former King Gyanendra of Nepal is spending his last night at the royal palace in Katmandu, where Nepalese monarchs have lived for more than 200 years. The authorities in Nepal, which was declared republic last month, say the former king will move into his new home on Wednesday. Charles Haviland reports from Katmandu.

Home Minister Krishna Sitaula now says that when Gyanendra leaves the palace on Wednesday, details of which position he keeps will be publicized. And Mr. Sitaula said he believed that the crown, with its many precious stones, and the scepter, will be handed over to the government. Palace sources say the ex-king will call an uNPRecedented press conference on the day he moves. The newspaper has meanwhile published photos of his new temporary residence in a forest outside Katmandu. They show a large and comfortable but ordinary-looking house, not a place warranting the description of palace.

President Bush has arrived in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, which was expected to focus on the Iran's nuclear programme. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush and European Union leaders said they were ready to have their own measures to United Nation's sanctions against Iran if it fails to suspend its enrichment of uranium.

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As governments around the world grapple with the problems caused by the surging food and basic commodity prices, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has said the country's main problem was a lack of access to markets, not food shortages.

"We are very happy with this food problem. Why? Because we produce a lot of food, and our problem has been the market. Now we hear that people in the world have no food, and yet for us, we're stuck well with food. We produce 10 million metric tons of bananas, and 40 percent of it rots because we have nowhere to sell it. We produce, we have been producing so much milk, we're pouring it."

Meanwhile, the United Nations has reported the lowest level of food aid in 50 years as a result of soaring grain prices. A world food programme report says food aid deliveries last year were less than half what they were at their peak in 1999.

Delegates from China and Taiwan are today resuming formal talks that were suspended almost ten years ago. The meeting in Beijing comes less than a month after Taiwan's new President Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated. The talks were expected to its results in an agreement to allow more Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan, and to launch direct passenger flights between both sides during weekends.

The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth, the Prince of Wales, has settled a royal debt dating back more than 350 years. The debts of 450 English pounds was run up in 1651 by the future king Charles II before the final battle of the English Civil War at Worcester in central England. Charles ordered thousands of uniforms for his troops from local clothiers, but he lost the battle to Republican forces and fled to France without paying the bill.(Www.hxen.net)

Football. The European Champions, Greece, have lost their opening match in Euro 2008. The Greece were beaten 2-0 by Sweden. In Tuesday’s another match, Spain beat Russia 4-1. The Spanish striker David Villa scored 3 of his country's goals, the first hat-trick of the tournament.

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