A rain forest, home to endangered orangutan in Indonesia, and a

A rain forest, home to endangered orangutan in Indonesia, and a unique ice-stream glacier in Greenland, are set to join the UN's main heritage site protection list, a key agency said on Wednesday. The Swiss-based IUCN, or World Conservation Union, said the two -- the Ilulissat Icefjord inside the Arctic Circle and a complex of three national parks in Sumatra -- were among five it had recommended for approval at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in China, next week. -- Reuters

U.S. army says it killed 20 in Iraq

A strike by U.S. forces that destroyed a house in the Iraqi city of Falluja overnight killed around 20 foreign fighters, a senior military official told reporters on Wednesday. The U.S. military says the strike targeted a safe house used by militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is accused of links to al-Qaeda and blamed for a series of bloody suicide bomb attacks and for the killing of at least two foreign hostages. Iraqis said on Tuesday evening that the attack had killed four Falluja residents. It was the second U.S. strike in four days on a suspected Zarqawi safehouse. -- Reuters