China launches a new plane maker to one day compete with Boeing and Airbus, state media report. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 1:24 pm
Increased amounts of aid reach cyclone-hit Burma amid signs the government is easing restrictions on access. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 1:22 pm
Reuters - Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on
Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had
seized in gun battles with supporters of the U.S.-backed
government.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had seized in gun battles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.
(Kyodo) _ Kyodo World Service now closes the news cycle for Sunday, May 11. The service will reopen at 7 a.m. Monday Tokyo time. We may reopen the service at any moment to cover breaking... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:18 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Red Cross effort to help survivors of a powerful cyclone that devastated southwestern Myanmar last week suffered a "big blow" Sunday when its first aid shipment traveling by Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:15 pm
AP - Barack Obama began sketching the outlines of his expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain on Saturday, saying the fall election will be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Heavy fighting broke out Sunday between supporters of Lebanon's Western-backed government and opposition followers in the central mountains overlooking the capital, security officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 1:13 pm
Heavy fighting broke out Sunday between supporters of Lebanon's Western-backed government and opposition followers in the central mountains overlooking the capital, security officials... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:13 pm
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000 to 28,458.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 1:10 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Japanese government is considering pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 80 percent by 2050 from the 2000 level as a long-term target, government sources said Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000 to 28,458. It said Sunday that the number of missing now stands at 33,416. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:02 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAIL IN PENULTIMATE GRAF) Kazuyuki Hoashi threw his second consecutive shutout and Hiroyuki Nakajima hit a two-run homer Sunday as the Seibu Lions routed the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
(Kyodo) _ Nepalese police broke up anti-China protests by Tibetans in three separate place in Kathmandu on Sunday afternoon and detained 572 protesters, police said. An official at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 12:58 pm
YANGON (Reuters) - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.
Why would Mars appear to move backwards? Most of the time, the apparent motion of Mars in Earth's sky is in one direction, slow but steady in front of the far distant stars. About every two years, however, the Earth passes Mars as they orbit around the Sun. Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:55 pm
Reuters - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis
poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of
food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands would
die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.
Even if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the time you read this), some Democrats will feel bitter and cheated and will invoke the powerful language of 2000 all over again. If Barack Obama gets the nomination, the anger will center on the primaries in Michigan and you-know-where. (Democrats! Disenfranchised! In Florida!) Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:55 pm
(Kyodo) _ The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis that devastated areas of southwestern Myanmar last week has reached 28,458 with 33,416 people missing, Reuters quoted state-run... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 12:55 pm
(Kyodo) _ India on Sunday quietly observed the 10th anniversary of its underground nuclear tests that stunned the world and served as the occasion for India to declare itself a nuclear... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 12:53 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH 2 NIGHT GAMES) Kazuyuki Hoashi threw his second consecutive shutout and Hiroyuki Nakajima hit a two-run homer Sunday as the Seibu Lions routed the Orix ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 May 2008 | 12:45 pm
So there I was Saturday morning in traffic at Longwood ave and the Riverway on the Brookline/Boston line when, out of nowhere, darts this crazed wild turkey. I caught the...
GENEVA (AP) -- A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 12:37 pm
While Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:37 pm
Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday. Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:33 pm
Serbs are voting in a snap election seen as the most important since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 12:31 pm
Reuters - Serbs voted on Sunday in a
parliamentary election that will show whether the lure of
European Union membership outweighs their anger over the
Western-backed secession of Kosovo.
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbs voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will show whether the lure of European Union membership outweighs their anger over the Western-backed secession of Kosovo.
Check out this screen shot from the world's first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago. Note the multicolored diagram in the background. That's an early schematic of ATLAS, one of two enormous particle detectors recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider, set to fire up later this year at CERN. Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:20 pm
Elyn recounts the florid visions she has experienced during her lifelong battle with schizophrenia, dancing ashtrays, houses that spoke to her, and hospitalizations where she was strapped down with leather restraints and force-fed medications...their talk is part of a conversation about mental illness, “extreme mental states...Members of the mad Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
A Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value. Source: Digg | 11 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
Reuters - Sudan cut diplomatic relations with
Chad on Sunday after an attack on Khartoum by Darfur rebels
which it said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan cut diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday after an attack on Khartoum by Darfur rebels which it said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby.
Reuters - A prominent member of al Qaeda was killed
in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said
in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Sunday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 May 2008 | 11:57 am
KABUL (Reuters) - A prominent member of al Qaeda was killed in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Sunday.
Nepalese police arrest 560 Tibetan women after breaking up demonstrations against China's crackdown in Tibet. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 11:55 am
The funds that pay pension and health benefits to police officers, teachers and millions of other public employees across the country are facing a shortfall that could soon run into trillions of dollars. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 11:45 am
State Representative Jeff Perry has called for a suspension of the state's gas tax for the summer. Right on!
As you know for the past 3 years the state has had a sales...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 11:37 am
AP - Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A member of the militant group Hamas has been killed in an explosion along Gaza's fence with Israel, the group said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 11:28 am
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations in Nepal's capital against China's recent crackdown in Tibet.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 11:26 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's presidential runoff cannot take place in the time allotted by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 11:26 am
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbs were voting Sunday in elections that will decide whether the nation takes another step toward mainstream Europe or reverts to a hard-line stance reminiscent of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 11:23 am
Up to five people are reported to have been killed in violence involving armed militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 11:16 am
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's ruling generals said Sunday there was "massive turnout" in their national referendum, held despite pleas to devote their resources to saving more than a million victims of a devastating cyclone. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 11:15 am
BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbia voted Sunday in snap general elections that give its people the stark choice of entering or rebuffing the European Union after the trauma of losing Kosovo, their historic heartland. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 11:13 am
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan on Sunday cut diplomatic ties with Chad, accusing its neighbour of backing a first-ever Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum as the government partially lifted a curfew to clamp down on rebels. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 11:08 am
Ferrari's Felipe Massa leads in the Turkish Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton pushing hard from second. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 11:03 am
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are already drawing up strategies for taking each other on in the general election, focusing on the same groups, campaign aides said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 10:46 am
With a self-imposed deadline looming, Pakistani leaders had yet to clinch a deal Sunday on reinstating judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, an issue that has threatened to break up the ruling coalition. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 10:26 am
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 10:20 am
Sudan accuses Chad of helping Darfur rebels to attack Khartoum and says it is breaking diplomatic ties. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 10:18 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood legends and obscure arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest film festival that combines edgy cinema with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making.
Sri Lanka's ruling coalition wins a provincial election seen as key to its strategy against the Tamil Tigers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 10:06 am
Lebanese troops deploy in Tripoli to end fierce fighting between Hezbollah allies and government supporters. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 9:56 am
A polling agent holds voting papers during a recount at the Domboshava training centre, northwest of Harare in April 2008. Zimbabwe is gearing up for the imminent return home of the country's opposition... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:54 am
Zimbabwe is gearing up for the return home of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen here last month, who has vowed to face veteran president Robert Mugabe in a runoff election despite the risk of more... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:54 am
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe braced Sunday for the return home of the country's opposition leader who has vowed to face veteran president Robert Mugabe in a runoff election despite the risk of more violence. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 9:53 am
Denis Nizhegorodov set a world record in the men's 50-kilometer race walk at a World Cup meet Sunday, shaving 1 minute, 34 seconds off the old mark. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 9:42 am
Lebanese soldiers are deployed in the northern city of Tripoli following fierce battles between rival clans as the Hezbollah-led opposition handed over control of west Beirut to the army. Lebanese soldiers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:30 am
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora speaks at a press conference in Beirut.Lebanese soldiers have deployed in the northern city of Tripoli after fierce battles between rival clans as the Hezbollah-led... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:30 am
Supporters of the pro-government Future movement overturn a car belonging to the Shiite Hezbollah group in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Lebanese soldiers have deployed in the northern city of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:30 am
Lebanese soldiers have deployed in the northern city of Tripoli after fierce battles between rival clans as the Hezbollah-led opposition handed over control of west Beirut to the army. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:30 am
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Lebanese soldiers deployed in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday after fierce battles between rival clans as the Hezbollah-led opposition handed over control of west Beirut to the army. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 9:29 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed on Saturday in Missouri and Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the area, authorities in the two states said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seen here, has blamed the Islamist Hamas movement for all the rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip and warned that "calm" would be imposed by force if they did... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:13 am
A Kurdish youth jumps over a fire during a celebration in Istanbul in March. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight, the latest in a series of air strikes... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:09 am
Turkish soldiers patrol on a mountain on the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak earlier this year. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 9:09 am
Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of could die.
A man walks his dog past a road sign which was knocked down by a tornado in late April. A series of powerful tornadoes has swept across the central part of the United States, killing at least 11 people... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 May 2008 | 8:55 am
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and fraud.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:13 a... | 11 May 2008 | 8:40 am
Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants clashed Sunday in two separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing six people, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 8:30 am
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.
But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than...
BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbia voted Sunday in general elections that give its people the stark choice of entering or abandoning the European Union in a rebuff to the West after the trauma of losing Kosovo, their historic heartland. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 8:01 am
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - FedEx Corp. has cut its fourth-quarter earnings expectations, blaming continuing increases in fuel costs.
The Memphis-based shipping company said it expects...
WASHINGTON - The unemployment rate drops. Productivity grows. The trade deficit shrinks. Sounds great, right? Not so fast.
Borrowing radio broadcaster Paul Harvey's...
When Jenny and John Crowley learned they were having a baby, they did the responsible thing: they bought life insurance.
Barely in their 30s, they passed the insurance...
A major legal brawl is breaking out over how homes are appraised, at what cost, and by whom. The outcome could directly affect the price you pay for your next piece of real...
When it comes to investing, there are times when boring is good, when the idea is to find a safe haven in a fund that does a simple job, easily and without flash, the kind...
News Corp. withdrew a $580 million offer for Long Island newspaper Newsday, three days after its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, said talks with owner Tribune Co. were in a "pretty...
President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 7:40 am
Tornadoes and severe storms sweep the central US, severely damaging two towns and killing at least 18 people. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 May 2008 | 7:36 am
Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 7:29 am
Vanessa Williams has received her bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, nearly 25 years after she dropped out to become the first black Miss America. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 7:28 am
Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and fraud. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 7:14 am
Two contenders -- Cablevision Systems and media owner Mortimer Zuckerman -- remain for Tribune Co.'s Long Island newspaper after News Corp. withdraws its $580-million offer.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., once the front-runner in bidding for Tribune Co.'s Newsday, has withdrawn its $580-million offer for the Long Island, N.Y., daily newspaper, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.
Despite last year's troop buildup, cleric Muqtada Sadr's influence remains strong and clashes are frequent in his militia stronghold.
In the glow of a full moon, a U.S. military convoy inched toward a strategic road in Sadr City. The goal: to add to a wall being built to carve out a haven in the Shiite Muslim militia stronghold.
The Shiite militia pulls out of the western part of the capital, further easing tensions. But violence continues.
Lebanon's political and military leaders struggled to pull the country back Saturday from a deepening civil conflict that has left at least 34 people dead in four days of violence between Iranian-backed militias and supporters of the pro-U.S. government.
OK, we weren't there at the family ranch near Crawford, Texas, either. But we do know what song she and President Bush danced to, at least.
Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager said "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch near Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, roads are named Cattle Drive and the Texas flag is painted on the rooftops of barns.
State and federal agencies race to complete work designed to prevent the $25-billion disaster that could result if the rivers surrounding the capital city overflowed or breached aging levees.
SACRAMENTO — California's capital city may be best known for politics, but it has another claim to fame: It's America's most flood-threatened city not named New Orleans.
If he's chosen as the Democratic nominee, his race might be an issue, but experience and social issues loom much larger.
For the first time, a major political party is on the brink of choosing an African American as its candidate for president, but when Democratic strategists and other analysts look ahead, they don't see race as Barack Obama's biggest challenge.
A tornado strikes the border, and emergency officials say the death toll could rise.
. -- Severe weather including a tornado that spun across the Oklahoma-Missouri border killed at least 18 people Saturday, mangling buildings and trapping people in rubble in the storm-weary region.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Saturday it had launched air and artillery attacks against Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq overnight after an insurgent attack on a Turkish military base killed six soldiers.
President Rafael Correa said Saturday he has "no confidence" in the World Bank arbitration branch that is hearing U.S. oil company Occidental's lawsuit against Ecuador. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 6:32 am
A member of the militant group Hamas has been killed in an explosion along Gaza's fence with Israel, the group said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 6:10 am
President Bush, who often jokes about being sure to listen to his mother, will be with her on Mother's Day — the day after celebrating the wedding of his daughter Jenna. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 May 2008 | 6:04 am
LONDON (AFP) - French state-owned energy giant EDF, the world's biggest nuclear energy producer, has ambitions to expand into a lucrative future British market with a bid for the leading British nuclear energy producer. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 May 2008 | 5:54 am
The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 5:16 am
Greg Maddux became the ninth pitcher in big league history to win 350 games, reaching the plateau in his fifth try and leading the San Diego Padres to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna was married on Saturday evening to Henry Hager, the son of the Virginia Republican Party chairman, in front of more than 200 family members and close friends.
HOUSTON - Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed that misdemeanor abuse of corpse... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Myanmar's military rulers held elections aimed at solidifying their hold on power, while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid.
YANGON - Myanmar has held a rare election to approve a new army-drafted constitution while many of the 1.5 million survivors of a devastating cyclone waited in vain for a concerted aid effort to bring them food and medicine.
Though... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 May 2008 | 2:29 am
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Thunderstorms and tornadoes tore across Central United States on Saturday evening, killing at least 11 people, mangling buildings and trapping people in the rubble of their homes in areas still reeling from... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 May 2008 | 2:05 am
BEND, Oregon (Reuters) - Acting even more like he has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama said on Saturday he would be willing to campaign jointly with Republican John McCain and acknowledged he needed to better introduce himself to Americans.
A 28-year-old woman has been critically injured when she and a man she had just embraced plunged from the balcony of a property in Sydney's east.
Emergency crews were called to the home in Bellevue Hill after the accident, which... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 May 2008 | 12:10 am
The aftermath of the cyclone is still a morbid reality for millions in Myanmar, but the lax government-sponsored relief efforts haven't deterred the reigning junta. It went ahead with plans for a referendum on Saturday.
HOUSTON - Authorities say the bodies of five people have been found on a property in Houston. The remains of three young children are among them.
Police Lt. Dan Harris says a neighbour discovered the bodies Saturday afternoon.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 11:30 pm
Ft. Wayne, Ind., is home to one of the largest communities of Burmese refugees in the United States. They are among those offering prayers to the cyclone victims in Myanmar.
It has been a week since a cyclone devastated the Myanmar coastline. Tens of thousands of bodies have yet to be identified or buried. United Nations consultant and expert on directing disaster relief Claude de Ville de Goyet talks with Andrea Seabrook about the difficult task ahead for Myanmar.
Jenna Bush is getting hitched on Saturday to Henry Hager at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Amy Argetsinger of The Washington Post talks with Andrea Seabrook about how you cover a wedding you're not allowed to attend.
This weekend, George Hood of Aurora, Ill., is trying to break the world record for continuous exercise. If he's successful, he will have pedaled his stationary bicycle for 132 hours straight. He talks with Andrea Seabrook as he nears the finish line.
A Western Australian beach remains closed today after a Perth man was attacked by a shark while swimming there.
Jason Cull, 37, was about 80 metres off Middleton Beach on the state's south coast on Saturday morning when a four... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 10:37 pm
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates today when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.
Obama added... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 10:03 pm
BEIRUT - Hezbollah has begun withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after seizing much of the city in gunbattles with supporters of the US-backed government.
Hezbollah, a political... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 9:33 pm
With only a few aging helicopters and little disaster experience, Myanmar's junta is risking the lives of cyclone survivors by running a massive relief operation alone, aid experts say.
After almost a week of refusal following a deadly cyclone, Myanmar has agreed to allow one U.S. cargo plane to make a delivery of aid. The government there is still refusing entry to worldwide aid agencies. Gordon Bacon of the International Rescue Committee is one of the few who have been able to enter the country.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will return to his homeland - despite threats to his life - to take part in a presidential runoff against President Robert Mugabe that could defeat the longtime "dictator."
After a night of heavy fighting, Shiite Hezbollah militiamen seize control Friday of most parts of Muslim West Beirut from ragtag Sunni militias. The Lebanese army has so far stayed out of the fray.
Bankers and housing analysts say many homeowners, owing more than their homes are worth, are defaulting on their loans even when they can afford payments. But no hard numbers back up their claims.
Bankers and housing market analysts are warning of a chilling new trend in the mortgage world: Homeowners voluntarily defaulting on their loans even though they can actually afford to make the payments.
Two people were instantly killed after a carousel jumped its tracks and slammed into a pole, sending people flying. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 5:30 pm
A fight that broke out at a troubled South Los Angeles high school escalated into a campus wide brawl involving as many as 600 students before it was quelled by police in riot gear.
The melee, which students said started about... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 5:01 pm
For the people living alongside the Payapon River - a branch of the mighty Irrawaddy - the slow-moving waters have always been a sustainer of life. The river has provided irrigation for their crops, as well as clean water for bathing,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
Shiite militants have agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad's embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end.
A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police said, a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector.
The American Civil War has claimed another casualty. Sam White, a memorabilia collector, found a Civil War-era shell, took it to his Virginia home and it detonated in his driveway.
Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will contest a presidential runoff and will soon return to his homeland. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 1:21 pm
An Austrian judge ruled that a man accused of fathering seven children with a daughter he held captive for more than two decades should remain in custody, an official said.
Reuters - Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on
Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had
seized in gun battles with supporters of the U.S.-backed
government.
AP - Barack Obama began sketching the outlines of his expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain on Saturday, saying the fall election will be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic.
AP - Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000 to 28,458.
AP - Many have fled this depressed, pollution-scarred mining town. Those who have chosen to stay or have not yet relocated face a new heartache.
Reuters - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis
poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of
food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands would
die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.
Reuters - Serbs voted on Sunday in a
parliamentary election that will show whether the lure of
European Union membership outweighs their anger over the
Western-backed secession of Kosovo.
Reuters - Sudan cut diplomatic relations with
Chad on Sunday after an attack on Khartoum by Darfur rebels
which it said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby.
AP - Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes.
AP - The shots didn't drop again for LeBron James, and it hardly mattered. The rest of the Cleveland Cavaliers made most of theirs.
Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of could die.
This could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers he is a Republican.
The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago.
At least 18 people were killed in Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday after severe storms that included tornadoes.
Greg Maddux became the ninth pitcher in big league history to win 350 games, reaching the plateau in his fifth try and leading the San Diego Padres to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.