Mystery patient treated in Haiti

2:54pm Doctors in Haiti are treating a man said to have had been trapped for 28 days - but he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal.

Mum guilty of murdering 'bipolar' girl

Reuters

3:02pm A US woman has been convicted of second-degree murder over the 2006 death of her four-year-old daughter from an overdose of powerful psychotropic drugs.

Sri Lanka parliament dissolved

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Sri Lanka's president has dissolved parliament before legislative elections on April 8, a senior government official said, a day after a leading opposition figure was arrested on military offences.

Avalanches kill at least 28

At least 28 people died and hundreds were trapped through the night in freezing cold and darkness after avalanches closed a mountain highway tunnel in Afghanistan.