ROME - Police say they have arrested 49 suspected mobsters in raids on the Naples-based Camorra mob.
Police Col. Carmelo Burgio has told Sky TG24 TV that another 11 suspects...
The leader of Taiwan’s new ruling party promised Monday to seek peace and economic engagement with China ahead of his trip to the mainland to meet President Hu Jintao. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 May 2008 | 9:42 am
(Kyodo) _ The chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party (KMT), Wu Poh- hsiung, arrived in Nanjing on Monday, becoming the first head of the island's ruling party to visit the mainland. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:33 am
YANGON (AFP) - International aid groups said Monday they were planning to test Myanmar's commitment to open up to foreign aid workers, after the junta pledged to speed up relief for desperate cyclone survivors. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 9:27 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed back to New York on Monday, saying he hoped Myanmar's military regime would honor its promise to open up cyclone-devastated areas of the country to foreign aid workers.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 9:24 am
(Kyodo) _ ---------- Dentsu group setting up Internet ad joint venture in India TOKYO - Dentsu Inc. said Monday its subsidiary in India is setting up an Internet advertising joint... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:24 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) A fire broke out at the Myanmar Embassy in central Bangkok on Monday, destroying almost half of the second floor of the main building and temporarily closing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:19 am
Airstrikes, possibly by U.S. planes, caused explosions in a remote area in southern Somalia, officials said Monday. There was no immediate information on casualties. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 May 2008 | 9:17 am
Mozambique says about 20,000 of its citizens fled attacks in South Africa as reconciliation efforts get under way. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 9:09 am
Voters in cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar have overwhelmingly approved a constitution that critics say will perpetuate the military's decades-old grip on power in this Southeast Asian nation. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 9:08 am
(Kyodo) _ The U.S. dollar hovered within a narrow range in the lower 103 yen level Monday in Tokyo with its movement remaining sluggish due to persistent fears about the economic outlook... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:05 am
(Kyodo) _ Nepal's authorities imposed an indefinite ban on protests, gatherings and rallies in various parts of the capital Kathmandu on Monday, two days before a new assembly formally... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:03 am
Chinese officials announced Monday that the country's strict one-child policy will make some exceptions for certain families affected by the devastating earthquake two weeks ago. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 9:00 am
BUJUMBURA (AFP) - Burundi's government and last active rebel group on Monday signed an unconditional ceasefire agreement. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:54 am
Reuters - Myanmar's army-drafted constitution
sailed through this month's referendum, with 92.48 percent of
the vote on a turnout of 98.1 percent despite the carnage
wrought by Cyclone Nargis, state media said on Monday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:51 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army-drafted constitution sailed through this month's referendum, with 92.48 percent of the vote on a turnout of 98.1 percent despite the carnage wrought by Cyclone Nargis, state media said on Monday.
TOKYO (AP) -- A U.S. Treasury official said Monday the global credit crunch is gradually calming following efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 8:50 am
A U.S. Treasury official said Monday the global credit crunch is gradually calming following efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Clay Lowery, assistant secretary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 8:50 am
A U.S. Treasury official said Monday the global credit crunch is gradually calming following efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 8:50 am
(Kyodo) _ Crown Princess Masako has decided not to accompany Crown Prince Naruhito when he makes an official visit to Spain in July in consideration of her physical condition, the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 8:50 am
AP - Like spring flowers, the "For Sale" signs are sprouting in front yards all over the country. But anxious sellers are facing the most brutal environment in decades, with a slumping economy, falling home prices and rising mortgage foreclosures.
Opposition supporters in Georgia begin independence day protests over last week's election results. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 8:46 am
As storms roared over his head, shaking his house and sending the family belongings flying all over the place, all Jason Akins could do was put his arms over his wife, two sons and two neighbor kids and hope for the best. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 8:41 am
AP - Powerful storms packing large hail, heavy rain and tornadoes made for a deadly Memorial Day weekend across the nation's midsection, killing at least seven people in Iowa and a 2-year-old child in Minneapolis.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a spiritual defense for continuing her presidential campaign, as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Tornadoes and storms sweep through the US, killing at least eight people and destroying many homes. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 8:38 am
Armed militants in Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta said Monday they had sabotaged a Shell oil pipeline in the region and killed eleven soldiers. The Movement for the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 8:37 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO) More than 65,000 people are now known to have died in this month's powerful earthquake in western China, government figures revealed Monday. The death... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 May 2008 | 8:29 am
For years, seismologists dismissed the notion that major earthquakes could spark small ones in far-off locations. But now, new evidence suggests the phenomenon of 'dynamic triggering' is much more widespread than originally thought
KOBE (AFP) - Environment ministers from the world's top industrial powers called Monday for more effort to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but little headway was seen in setting more immediate goals. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:24 am
ANXIAN, China (AP) -- Chinese soldiers prepared Monday to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 8:22 am
Chinese soldiers prepared Monday to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 8:22 am
A massive aftershock has killed at least eight people in China's quake-devastated Sichuan province. The death toll from the aftershock stood at six, and 71,000 homes that survived the original quake were leveled.
KOBE, Japan (AP) -- Environment chiefs from the world's top industrial countries pledged "strong political will" Monday toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 8:19 am
The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 May 2008 | 8:14 am
AFP - A new NASA probe executed a near perfect landing on the north pole of Mars and sent back pictures Monday in the most ambitious effort to date to find signs the Red Planet once supported life..
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Oil traded higher at more than 132 dollars a barrel Monday as the US summer driving season kicked off, underscoring concerns that output was inadequate amid rising demand. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:14 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A new NASA probe executed a near perfect landing on the north pole of Mars and sent back pictures Monday in the most ambitious effort to date to find signs the Red Planet once supported life.. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:10 am
AP - Environment chiefs from the world's top industrial countries pledged "strong political will" Monday toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.
Australian authorities suggest two foreign divers should pay towards their rescue after selling their story to a UK newspaper. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 8:05 am
MIANZHU (AFP) - Soldiers raced Monday to unblock a river that was dammed by landslides in China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago as flood prevention became a top priority in the disaster zone. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 8:05 am
Militants said they destroyed an oil pipeline Monday in Nigeria's petroleum-producing region and killed 11 soldiers in an ensuing gunbattle with security forces. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Reuters - Foreign aid workers saddled up for the
cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether
army-ruled Myanmar will honor a promise made by its top general
to give them freedom of movement.
YANGON (Reuters) - Foreign aid workers saddled up for the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Myanmar will honor a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.
Streets, nightclubs and restaurants were largely deserted this weekend in a Mexican city across from Texas where a widely circulated e-mail warned of a bloodbath. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 May 2008 | 7:46 am
Nepalese authorities on Monday banned protests around the king's palace and private residence to prevent any violence, days before the centuries-old monarchy is formally abolished in this Himalayan nation. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 7:41 am
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state on Sunday, reviving paralyzed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
Light Graffiti has come to fame over the last couple of years and there are quire a bit of amazing works to show on the internet demonstrating what can be achieved. The basics of using a camera to create Light graffiti is a long exposure time and a steady platform such as a tripod. The rest is down to experimentation but here are some basics... Source: Digg | 26 May 2008 | 7:40 am
MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - China was preparing to dynamite rock, mud and rubble forming a dangerously large "quake lake" on Monday, hoping to avert a new disaster two weeks after a catastrophic tremor struck Sichuan province.
Like spring flowers, the "For Sale" signs are sprouting in front yards all over the country. But anxious sellers are facing the most brutal environment in decades, with a slumping economy, falling home prices and rising mortgage foreclosures. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 7:31 am
The U.S. military says a U.S. soldier has been killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 7:30 am
Studies are fueling a growing recognition that many behaviors are swayed by social networks in ways that have not been fully understood. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 May 2008 | 7:15 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The leader of Taiwan's new ruling party promised Monday to seek peace and economic engagement with China ahead of his trip to the mainland to meet President Hu Jintao.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 7:06 am
Israel has offered to give up more of the West Bank than it had in a previous proposal but still not enough to meet Palestinian demands, Palestinian officials close to peace talks said Sunday.
A UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with international relief agencies is improving. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 6:54 am
When Hillary Rodham Clinton made a rare stop in the Senate last week, she spoke from a lonely outpost at the end of the Armed Services Committee dais, eight empty chairs emphasizing the gulf between her and real Senate power at the chairman’s spot.
Early partial results show the incumbent mayor of Ukraine's capital leading an election whose candidates included former heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 May 2008 | 6:26 am
Reliance Communications enters talks with South African mobile firm MTN after rival Bharti Airtel pulls out. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 6:02 am
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - The NBA Finals are just two wins away now, and you cannot help but get the feeling Kevin Garnett finally has decided to take more of this upon himself....
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - By Ray Allen's own admission, the 2008 postseason has been unlike any other in his career - and not just due to the quality of his team.
After...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Pistons remain a team loaded with tough and capable individuals who built themselves one damn fine reputation.
But unless they can reverse course...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - Clearly, these are somewhat turbulent times for Sam Cassell, whose contributions to the Celtics this postseason fittingly have traveled along the arc of...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - The challenge continues.
Just because the Celtics took a major step when they won their first road game of the playoffs Saturday night at The Palace...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - As Doc Rivers was being led into the postgame interview area late Saturday night, he heard some strange voices coming from the podium.
"Is that...
DETROIT - The Pittsburgh Penguins put forth their best effort of the Stanley Cup finals opener in the first period, and all it got them was a stalemate with the Detroit Red...
A 5-year-old Revere boy was killed in front of his mother when a commuter train hit him as he crossed rail tracks on his bike, authorities said.
Stephen Garbarino was...
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's Reliance Communications said on Monday that it had entered into exclusive talks with South African mobile firm MTN after top cellular company Bharti Airtel pulled out of merger negotiations. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 May 2008 | 5:48 am
A 26-year-old Mattapan man was shot in both legs and the stomach yesterday afternoon at a popular playground, police said, shattering the calm of a tight-knit neighborhood...
The Hindu nationalist BJP wins the assembly polls in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 5:42 am
Japanese Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita delivers a speech at the G8 meeting in Kobe on May 25. Environment ministers from the world's top industrial powers have called to halve greenhouse gas emissions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 5:40 am
Mary Tillman, Mother of Slain Army Ranger and former NFL Star Pat Tillman, on Her Four-Year Quest to Expose the Military Cover-Up of Her Son’s Death by Members of His Own Unit. Pat Tillman left behind a lucrative NFL contract to enlist in the military after 9/11. On April 22, 2004, Tillman was killed while serving in Afghanistan, by his own men. Source: Digg | 26 May 2008 | 5:27 am
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet's atmosphere and touched down in Mars' northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of a bleak-looking, oddly patterned plain.
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed on Sunday by tornadoes and violent thunderstorms spawned by a powerful spring storm system that moved across the United States' midsection, authorities said.
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A small science probe blazed through the salmon-colored skies of Mars on Sunday, touching down on a frozen desert at the planet's north pole to search for water and assess conditions for sustaining life, NASA officials said.
Manu Ginobili scored 30 points to break out of his slump and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 103-84 in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday night.
San Clemente, California - Authorities say five people who are apparently related have been found dead inside a Southern California home.
Sheriff's Lt. Erin Giudice says the bodies were discovered just before 4pm Sunday at the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 5:00 am
BEIJING - The Beijing Olympic flame will spend just one day in Tibet next month rather that the three days originally scheduled, an official with the torch relay department of the Beijing Organising Committee said today.
The relay,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 4:56 am
Environment ministers from the world's biggest economies call for leaders to set a target to halve emissions by 2050. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 4:54 am
An image gallery of photos around the north pole of Mars direct from the Phoenix lander, and including some photos of the spacecraft and lander itself. Further photos will be streamed. Source: Digg | 26 May 2008 | 4:54 am
The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party departs for a visit to China, in what is seen as another sign of warming ties. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 4:48 am
Authorities in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, ban rallies in strategic areas ahead of the constituent assembly meeting. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 May 2008 | 4:29 am
PARKERSBURG, Iowa - A state official says a powerful storm that tore through a rural area of northeast Iowa has killed seven people and injured dozens more.
The storm hit just after 5pm Sunday (10am Mon NZT) and dealt heavy damage... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 4:00 am
Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party (KMT), speaks during a meeting with Taiwan's new President Ma Ying-jeou in Taipei on May 24. The head of Taiwan's ruling party flew to China... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 3:48 am
New Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou (R) chats with Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party (KMT) during their meeting in Taipei on May 24. The head of Taiwan's ruling party flew to China Monday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 3:48 am
A New Zealander is to be sworn in as the next acting commissioner of the Solomon Islands police force.
Peter Marshall, who has the rank of assistant commissioner in the NZ police, is on secondment to the Royal Solomon Islands police... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 3:30 am
SYDNEY - A string of letters written by Mercedes Corby in which she repeatedly outlines her drug use discredits her as a witness, the NSW Supreme Court has been told.
Mercedes Corby is suing the Seven Network for defamation, saying... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 3:05 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial markets are starting to heal thanks to the coordinated actions of the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to alleviate a squeeze in money markets, a senior U.S. Treasury official said in Tokyo on Monday.
Italian minister Stefania Prestigiacomo (left) and German minister Matthias Machnig (right) at the G8 environment ministers' meeting in Kobe, Japan on May 24. The group has issued a statement calling on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 2:59 am
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Struggling presidential contender Hillary Clinton campaigned in Puerto Rico on Sunday as she prepared for a pivotal ruling and sought to end a firestorm ignited by her reference to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Exhibits are pictured at the trial of French self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret, in April in Charleville-Mezieres, northern France. The trial of Fourniret and his wife heads for a verdict this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:43 am
File photo of the wife of French alleged serial killer Michel Fourniret, Monique Olivier (R. The trial of Fourniret and his wife heads for a verdict this week, with prosecutors seeking life in jail for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:43 am
French self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret leaves the courthouse of Charleville-Mezieres, May 13. The trial of Fourniret and his wife heads for a verdict this week, with prosecutors seeking life... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:43 am
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Scott Dixon of New Zealand held on from pole to win the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, after Danica Patrick was knocked out of the race in a pit lane crash.
Interactive graphic on the US space probe Phoenix, which after a nine-month mission successfully landed on Mars' frigid north pole region Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:04 am
Phoenix project manager Barry Goldstein. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft successfully landed on Mars' frigid north pole region Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:04 am
Phoenix principal investigator, University of Arizona, Peter Smith (L) and Phoenix project manager, JPL, Barry Goldstein. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft successfully landed on Mars' frigid north pole region Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:04 am
CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Entre les murs" (The Class), a film set in a tough Parisian high school, won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes festival on Sunday.
Hundreds of Colombians huddled in makeshift shelters on Sunday afraid to go home a day after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake damaged scores of homes and triggered landslides killing at least 11 people.
In the rural town of Quetame,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 12:50 am
LONDON - Former US President Jimmy Carter says Hillary Clinton should abandon her battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in early June.
Carter told Britain's Sky News television Sunday that he believes Democratic party... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 12:44 am
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, a peasant's son who built Latin America's mightiest guerrilla army but failed in a half century of struggle to trigger a communist revolution in Colombia, is dead. He was believed to be 78.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 26 May 2008 | 12:27 am
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanon's parliament elected a new president Sunday, taking a step to stabilize the country after a long, violent political crisis and ushering in a shift in the balance of power in favor of Iranian-backed Hezbollah.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 25 May 2008 | 10:44 pm
The New Zealand trimaran attempting to set a speed record for circumnavigating the Earth running on biodiesel is still on track despite losing an engine.
The boat was running on one engine after a high pressure fuel line burst... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 May 2008 | 10:24 pm
Residents in farming villages such as Yongan are trying to regain a sense of normalcy. But the backdrop for their rice planting is one of utter destruction: Brick and cement homes ripped apart by the earthquake.
BEICHUAN, China - A strong aftershock jolted southwest China overnight killing at least one person and injuring 400 others, state media said, nearly a fortnight after a big earthquake killed tens of thousands in the same area.
More... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
A survivor was pulled alive from the rubble of China's earthquake 266 hours (over 11 days) after the big tremor hit, state television reported yesterday.
Xiao Zhihu, an 80-year-old partially paralysed man, was rescued in Mianzhu... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 May 2008 | 8:15 pm
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe threatened Sunday to expel the U.S. ambassador for providing advice to the opposition opponent in the upcoming presidential runoff.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 25 May 2008 | 8:04 pm
After a six-month vacancy, Lebanon swears in a new president Sunday. The vote in parliament for Gen. Michel Suleiman ends 18 months of political stalemate. Sulieman vows to strengthen ties with Syria; Lebanon's relationship with its neighbor is a source of much its political turmoil. Mohanad Hage Ali, political editor the Arab world daily Al-Hayat, speaks with NPR's Guy Raz.
Representatives from more than 50 nations attended a donor conference in Myanmar Sunday. The Myanmar government is asking for $11 billion, but some countries are reluctant to unconditionally deliver the money. NPR's Guy Raz speaks with NPR's Michael Sullivan in Bangkok, Thailand.
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- Gao Ping's arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 25 May 2008 | 5:59 pm
Large cargo plane crashed at the end of a runway and split in two while trying to take off Sunday at Brussels airport, authorities say. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 May 2008 | 5:51 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The 22 men in "trailer 10" work the morning shift at a construction site, then take turns shopping, cooking and cleaning. They pray together. When one returns to India on leave, he carries family presents and cash for the others.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:24 a... | 25 May 2008 | 5:50 pm
Pentagon researchers are searching for the remains of more than 2,000 American pilots and crewmembers lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II, it is reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 May 2008 | 4:36 pm
The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover-up for the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 May 2008 | 1:42 pm
NASA's Mars Phoenix space probe is scheduled to hurtle through the Martian atmosphere and touch down near the Red Planet's north pole at 7:53 p.m. Eastern Time. The mission may reveal whether conditions on Mars once were favorable to life.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is still running for president, but you'd never know it from the rhetoric between Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Obama has been reserving his fire for McCain, who in turn has trained his sights exclusively on Obama.
Republican Sen. John McCain is playing host to three potential vice presidential candidates — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney — this weekend at his home in Sedona, Ariz. Sunday Soapbox blogger Mindy Finn examines McCain's quest for a running mate.
Columbia's military says that Pedro Antonio Marin, who has lead the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel force since 1964, died of a heart attack March 26. But correspondent Juan Forero tells Ari Shapiro that the FARC commander, better known as Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, has been reported dead many times before.
China has received more than $3 billion in foreign aid after the devastating May 12 earthquake. The first wave of foreign relief workers — the rescue teams — has already pulled out, signaling an end to the rescue phase of operations. Now, a second wave of foreign relief workers has arrived to augment weary Chinese teams.
A large aftershock hit China's Sichuan province Sunday morning, rattling buildings as far away as Beijing. The tremor comes almost two weeks after the initial earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.
Sudan's government is touting its defeat of 1,000 outgunned Darfur rebels earlier this month as a major military defeat. But local Sudanese still have lingering questions on how the rebel forces got as far as they did.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says nothing has been achieved in six months of peace talks with Israel and he fears a corruption probe of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will bog things down. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 May 2008 | 11:09 am
AFP - Burundi's government and last active rebel group on Monday signed an unconditional ceasefire agreement.
Chinese soldiers prepared Monday to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.
AP - Like spring flowers, the "For Sale" signs are sprouting in front yards all over the country. But anxious sellers are facing the most brutal environment in decades, with a slumping economy, falling home prices and rising mortgage foreclosures.
AP - Powerful storms packing large hail, heavy rain and tornadoes made for a deadly Memorial Day weekend across the nation's midsection, killing at least seven people in Iowa and a 2-year-old child in Minneapolis.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a spiritual defense for continuing her presidential campaign, as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
AP - Chinese soldiers prepared Monday to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.
AFP - A new NASA probe executed a near perfect landing on the north pole of Mars and sent back pictures Monday in the most ambitious effort to date to find signs the Red Planet once supported life..
AP - The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting.
AP - Environment chiefs from the world's top industrial countries pledged "strong political will" Monday toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.
Reuters - Foreign aid workers saddled up for the
cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether
army-ruled Myanmar will honor a promise made by its top general
to give them freedom of movement.
Israel has offered to give up more of the West Bank than it had in a previous proposal but still not enough to meet Palestinian demands, Palestinian officials close to peace talks said Sunday.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton made a rare stop in the Senate last week, she spoke from a lonely outpost at the end of the Armed Services Committee dais, eight empty chairs emphasizing the gulf between her and real Senate power at the chairman’s spot.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet's atmosphere and touched down in Mars' northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of a bleak-looking, oddly patterned plain.
Manu Ginobili scored 30 points to break out of his slump and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 103-84 in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday night.