Deutsche Presse-Agentur

ABUJA, Nigeria -- At least 34 people were reported to have died after gunmen armed with explosives set fire to a cattle market in northeastern Nigeria, according to local media Thursday.

LIMA, Peru -- As many as 877 dolphins washed up on the coast of northern Peru, the country's Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria Acosta said Friday.

OSLO, Norway -- Anders Behring Breivik on Thursday told a court in chilling detail about how he had planned to kill even more people than the 77 who died in the two attacks he has confessed to having carried out last year.

VIENNA -- The grave of Adolf Hitler's parents has been dismantled because it had become a memorial site for neo-Nazis, a parish priest in the Austrian town of Leonding told the German news agency dpa on Thursday, citing a statement by a relative of the dictator.

SYDNEY -- There was good news Tuesday for Wagga Wagga, the city in southeast Australia that had braced for its worst flooding in 159 years.

The swollen Murrumbidgee River peaked below the height of the New South Wales farming town's protective levee.

The 11-meter defenses held steady as the river rose to 10.56 meters, below the record set in 1853 and below the level in 1974 when the last big flood hit town.

But the 9,000 people ordered out of their homes after a week of record-breaking rain will not be allowed back until officials give the all-clear.

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's Parliament passed an austerity and debt-relief bill on Monday as rioters in Athens looted shops and set buildings on fire.