Chocolate covered models sway down the catwalk at New York chocolate fashion show. During the show, the audience was treated to dresses and accessories made out of chocolate.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:29 GMT

Turkey’s Chief of Staff says troops are ready for an operation as soon as the Turkish government gives the go ahead. General Yasar Buyukanit said around a hundred thousand troops are now waiting for the order to cross the border into northern Iraq.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:25 GMT

The new discovery filled with murals has been discovered on the north coast. The ancient temple inside a larger ruin in the Lambayeque valley is home to what is believed to be one of the oldest murals of its kind in the Americas.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:23 GMT

Police admit accidentally shooting dead a football fan during a confrontation between supporters of rival clubs. The shooting happened after Lazio and Juventus supporters clashed at a motorway restaurant near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:22 GMT

Quality control watchdogs investigate bead toys recalled in the U.S, Australia and Europe. The toys are undergoing tests after it emerged they contained a chemical that simulates the effects of a date rape drug if swallowed.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:20 GMT

At least four ships sink and others are grounded as severe storms lash the Kerch Strait and Black Sea.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:19 GMT

The relatives and friends of Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, as well as members of his inner circle, say that he was a good man who tried to avoid political and personal conflicts.

// Nov. 09, 2007 - 17:36 GMT

Students in Venezuela continue to protest against the Chavez government. The worst political violence in months has stoked fears that the clashes will dominate a referendum campaign on Hugo Chavez’s plan to scrap term limits in a raft of constitutional changes.

// Nov. 09, 2007 - 12:24 GMT

US consumer agency says a chemical in Aqua Dots turns toxic when swallowed, metabolizing into the «date rape» drug. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission warns the beads can cause kids who swallow them to become comatose, develop respiratory depression or have seizures.

// Nov. 09, 2007 - 12:22 GMT

A church steeple in Germany is named the world’s most tilted tower, stripping the leaning tower of Pisa of its record. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tower in the small village of Suurhusen in northwestern Germany leans more than the famous tower in Pisa in Italy.

// Nov. 09, 2007 - 12:20 GMT