Denny Wood

One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets.

Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change, the erosion of union rights — and dozens of other issues — have begun a five-kilometre protest march to the site of the NATO summit.

Peter Jones, the British-born drummer of the band Crowded House, has died, according to the band's website and several news reports.

NATO's secretary-general said his organization's commitment in Afghanistan remains strong, as leaders from 60 countries gathered for the alliance's summit in Chicago.

Tropical storm Alberto weakens slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, cancelling dolphin cruises, producing showers along the coast and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.

The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died from cancer at his home at age 60.

Investigators in Italy still had no firm clue of who was behind a bomb attack at a school, which killed one 16-year-old student, a day after a device made up of gas cylinders exploded outside a mainly all-girls vocational school in Brindisi.

Shelling by Syrian forces in the central province of Hama has killed 34 people according to the British-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and several news reports.