LONDON, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - A high-powered Lamborghini sports car was sent on a 6,500-mile (10,460-kilomtre) round-trip to Britain simply to have a service, sparking fury from environmentalists, The Sun newspaper said Thursday.

KARKHANO CHECKPOST, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - 'If there is a more dangerous job in Pakistan I'd like to know what it is,' says truck driver Momin Khan Darwish as he displays burns on his body from a Taliban rocket attack.

GENEVA, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Swiss Air said Tuesday it would decide in the next few days whether to resume flights to Tripoli after a diplomatic spat over the brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.

Flights could resume on Sunday, but this 'would depend on the evolution of the situation' between Switzerland and Libya, the airline's spokesperson said.

AMMAN, July 27, 2008 (AFP) - Jordan is seeking six billion dollars from international donors to build a railway link with its neighbours and plans to import Iraqi crude oil by rail, the transport ministry said on Sunday.

EL-ARISH, July 26, 2008 (AFP) - Bedouins on Saturday opened fire on a passenger bus in Egypt's Sinai peninsula wounding two people, including an infant, a security official said.

The attack occurred after two bedouin passengers on the bus argued with the driver demanding they be dropped off in the middle of the desert, near the Sinai town of Ras Sedr, the official said.

MILAN, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair on Friday used a photo of Italian separatist leader Umberto Bossi 'giving the finger' on its website aimed at deriding competitor Alitalia.

KINSHASA, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - At least 42 passengers drowned and more than 100 are missing after their boat sank on the river Oubangui in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials and a radio report said Friday.

CAIRO, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Egypt's Suez Canal Authority said on Monday that its revenue had surged in the first six months of 2008 to more than 2.6 billion dollars.

'Canal receipts from January to end June reached 2.639 billion dollars (1.66 billion euros) which is a half-billion dollars more than for the same period last year,' a Canal Authority official told AFP.

WARSAW, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Several passenger trains came to a grinding halt in Poland Monday after thieves stole overhead steel electric cables, the country's PKP state railways spokesman Miroslaw Siemieniec confirmed.

BEIJING, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Traffic in China's capital was lighter Monday but hazy skies still hovered over the Olympic host city 18 days before the Beijing Games despite factory closures and a ban on more than a million cars.