TOKYO (AFP) - Five workers were missing Tuesday after a tunnel collapsed as it was being constructed at a Japanese oil refinery, reports said.

MONTREAL (AFP) - Eleven people were killed Monday when two vehicles collided on a highway in Canada's Ontario province, police were quoted as saying by local media.

PARIS (AFP) - Air France said it expects to fly only half of its long-haul and 70 percent of short- and medium-haul flights on Tuesday as a strike by French aviation workers intensifies.

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Gunmen attacked a police station in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Kano on Monday and multiple blasts rocked a market in Maiduguri, the base of Islamist group Boko Haram, residents said.

BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday named intelligence chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu as the new prime minister after Emil Boc resigned following wide protests against austerity cuts.