Authorities in an Australian town reject proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 10:53 am
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rose above 133 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, within reach of last week's record peaks amid violence in key African crude exporter Nigeria, dealers said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:51 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. businessman at the center of a bribery case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified on Tuesday he gave the Israeli leader cash-stuffed envelopes but without expecting any favors in return.
AP - Fresh images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health, mission scientists said.
LONDON (AFP) - Aid workers and peacekeepers are sexually abusing young children in war zones and disaster zones but their actions are largely going unpunished, a British charity said Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:48 am
SEATTLE - Where can a falcon find a little privacy these days?
Not downtown Seattle. And not the coast of South America, either.
Thanks to local researchers, bird-lovers...
PARKERSBURG, Iowa - Rusty and Julie Eddy were paddling in a canoe when the tornado destroyed their home. The Hoppenworths were fishing, and the Collingses had been invited...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Already under fire for its handling of cyclone victims, Myanmar's military regime detained about 20 members of a democracy activist's opposition party Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 10:33 am
AP - Already under fire for its handling of cyclone victims, Myanmar's military regime detained about 20 members of a democracy activist's opposition party Tuesday.
The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 10:32 am
Officials from five countries around the Arctic meet in Greenland to discuss how to divide the region's vast natural reserves. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 10:31 am
Raul Castro and Cuba's leadership know that Soviet-style Communism is dead. Instead, says one observer, they are aiming to give Cuba some form of autocratic socialism with an overlay of private enterprise.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A US millionaire who is the key witness in the latest corruption probe against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted in sworn testimony on Tuesday that he gave large sums of cash to the premier. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:30 am
AP - The Pittsburgh Penguins did a lot more complaining after Game 2 against the Red Wings than scoring in the first two chapters of the Stanley Cup finals. Now they're headed home in a big hole, with more questions than scoring chances. Producing timely offense and perfectionist defense, Detroit is not only beating the Penguins, they are shutting them out.
BEIJING (AFP) - Pollution levels in Beijing hit the top of the scale on Tuesday, just 73 days before the Olympics, prompting a government warning for residents with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:29 am
AFP - Chinese authorities Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as troops scrambled to hold back a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake.
BEICHUAN (AFP) - Chinese authorities Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as troops scrambled to hold back a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:27 am
MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - Chinese soldiers were working non-stop to dig a giant sluice to ease pressure on a swelling "quake lake", with plans to evacuate 100,000 people to avert a new disaster, state media said.
AP - Chinese officials rushed Tuesday to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind a quake-spawned dam, state media reported, as soldiers scraped a channel to try to drain away the threat.
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- Chinese officials rushed Tuesday to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind a quake-spawned dam, state media reported, as soldiers scraped a channel to try to drain away the threat.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 10:23 am
AP - A Department of Homeland Security program to strengthen port security has gaps that terrorists could exploit to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in cargo containers, congressional investigators have found. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 27 May 2008 | 10:20 am
PARIS - Roger Federer added another win to his already burgeoning clay-court record this season.
Federer improved to 16-3 beating Sam Querrey of the United States 6-4,...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and earned praise for acting stints in films including "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a battle with cancer, his spokeswoman said. He was 73.
Vodafone Group PLC Chief Executive Officer Arun Sarin will step down, he said Tuesday, as the world's largest cell phone operator reported a return to a full-year profitability. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 10:14 am
Junior officers angry over unpaid wages were holding the army's second-ranking official hostage in a military barrack, as a military revolt entered its second day.
AP - Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents.
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A sharp-eyed Mars orbiter snapped an image of sister probe Phoenix descending through Martian skies toward a polar landing site to search for water and assess conditions for life, mission managers said on Monday.
Supporters of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi are held as her house arrest is due to expire. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 10:09 am
WASHINGTON - Researchers have identified seven possibilities for the next generation of mosquito repellant, some of which may work several times longer than the current standard-bearer,...
Soldiers in Guinea's capital, Conakry, take a top army commander hostage in a protest over pay. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 10:07 am
NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds...
Another 80,000 people are being evacuated in China from near a swollen "quake lake", state media report. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 10:05 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: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 10:05 am
DETROIT - Borders Group is jumping back into online retailing with a Web site designed to evoke the feeling of browsing at a neighborhood bookstore, down to the popular shelves...
Daniel Williams hoped Chantix would help him quit smoking and become healthier. Instead, he believes, it nearly killed him. Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 10:01 am
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian governor gave a posthumous pardon Tuesday to a man hanged 86 years ago for the rape and murder of a young girl, after new research discredited...
TOKYO - Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use...
LOS ANGELES - A van going through an intersection barreled into a second van that had sped a red light Monday, causing a fiery six-vehicle collision that killed five people...
Oregon State's quest for a third straight College World Series title ended in a conference room instead of on the field.
The two-time defending champions were left...
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's authorities, apparently readying for the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, detained 15 of the democracy leader's supporters Tuesday and stepped up security around her home. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 9:51 am
AFP - Myanmar's authorities, apparently readying for the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, detained 15 of the democracy leader's supporters Tuesday and stepped up security around her home.
A top Russian general says Moscow will take adequate measures to counter U.S. missile defense plans. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 9:49 am
Panasonic have sent a 17-centimeter tall, 130-gram robot up a 1738 foot (530m) length of rope suspended next to a 1640 foot (500m) cliff at the Grand Canyon Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 9:47 am
Sargent First Class William H. Ruth III contemplates his current duty in a barren landscape in Afghanistan, and says he's willing to lead a human mission to Mars. Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 9:47 am
Reuters - A U.S. businessman at the center of a
bribery case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified on
Tuesday he gave the Israeli leader cash-stuffed envelopes but
without expecting any favors in return.
(Kyodo) _ An industry group of local FM radio broadcasters said Tuesday it will promote a project to let member stations air their programs simultaneously over the Internet. Already,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 9:43 am
LONDON (AFP) - Mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that it swung into profit during 2007-08 and that its chief executive Arun Sarin would shortly step down after five years at the helm. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 27 May 2008 | 9:43 am
Same-sex couples in some California counties will be able to marry as soon as June 14, the president of the California's county clerks association said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 9:36 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta arrested 20 people trying to march to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, the day her latest year-long stretch of house arrest is due to expire, a witness and opposition sources said.
(Kyodo) _ Norinchukin Bank said Tuesday it booked a 186.9 billion yen loss in fiscal 2007 on its investments in securitized products affected by the global financial turbulence stemming... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 9:32 am
A Chinese news agency says 80,000 people are to be evacuated because of a flood risk in earthquake ravaged Sichuan province. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 9:25 am
AP - There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. Bill, it could be said, was born to run. Running became Hillary's destiny, too.
We mammals have been beaten again. Shrimp have more sophisticated eyes than we do, with the ability to see things we can't, and I'm feeling a bit envious. Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 9:22 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Army-controlled media in Myanmar praised the United Nations on Tuesday for its help to the 2.4 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis, suggesting a thaw in the junta's frosty relationship with the outside world.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO) A former male nurse at a Sendai clinic was ordered Tuesday to pay 50 million yen in damages to a 19-year-old patient and her parents for making her... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 9:19 am
(Kyodo) _ The U.S. dollar climbed into the upper 103 yen level Tuesday in Tokyo, after hovering in a narrow range in the morning, on rises in many Asian stock markets. At 5 p.m., the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 9:16 am
There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. One quarter of Americans have never known life without a Clinton trying for or having the presidency. Millions have gone from diapers to diplomas in the time of the Clintons.
American film director Sydney Pollack, who won two Oscars for Out of Africa, dies of cancer at the age of 73. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 9:13 am
Can a pure chick flick become a hit? Yes, if it draws a diverse enough swath of female moviegoers. For "Sex and the City," that will be the big question. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 9:08 am
(Kyodo) _ At least eight civilians were killed and two others injured Tuesday when a minibus was blown up by a roadside bomb in southwestern Afghanistan, an official said. The attack... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 9:07 am
Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models -- and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data at 200MB/s Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 9:01 am
TOKYO, May 27 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE INFO) A third-party panel set up by Japan Broadcasting Corp., known as NHK, to investigate insider stock trading by its staff said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 8:59 am
An HIV Ugandan woman's claim to stay in the UK is rejected by the European Court of Human Rights. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 8:59 am
Police hauled away two dozen opposition party members Tuesday as their leader Aung San Suu Kyi waited for a decision on whether the ruling junta would release her or extend her five-year detention period.
(Kyodo) _ Japanese boxer Junichi Ebisuoka will face WBC minimumweight champion Oleydong Sithsanerchai in Phuket, Thailand on June 18, his Akashi gym said Tuesday. "This is the first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 8:53 am
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple fed agencies and state and local law enforcement. Source: Digg | 27 May 2008 | 8:52 am
(Kyodo) _ Jeffrey Sachs, a special adviser to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, urged Japan on Tuesday to effectively combine the use of its official development assistance and private... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 8:49 am
Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a UK charity. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 8:46 am
An American businessman who police suspect gave illegal funds to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in court Tuesday to testify about his part in the case.
Iran's former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is poised to take the influential role of parliament speaker. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 8:40 am
A roadside bomb hits a bus in western Afghanistan, killing eight passengers, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 27 May 2008 | 8:26 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE INFO) The number of people known to have been killed in this month's massive earthquake in western China has risen to more than 67,000, government ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 27 May 2008 | 8:26 am
Travel down the winding, two-lane road where oversize houses with names like "Beau Regard" or "Ville Belle" have become the biggest cash crop, and you will come to a little gravel lane leading to some of the last farm land left in an area once known for agriculture. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 8:22 am
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A man hanged in 1922 for the murder and rape of a young girl in the southern Australian city of Melbourne was posthumously pardoned for the crime on Tuesday after new tests found crucial evidence against him was flawed.
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama underscored his willingness to talk to leaders of countries like Iran that are considered U.S. adversaries but said on Monday that does not necessarily mean an audience with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Several child welfare groups urged an overhaul of laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach meant to encourage their adoption by whites.
Japan is about to roll out the Lexus of space station labs, a whopper in size and sophistication. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 7:52 am
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.
DEDAYE, Myanmar (AP) -- Myint Hlaing's family bathes and draws cooking water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter suffers from diarrhea, despite drinking bottled water donated by aid groups.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 7:42 am
Dangling millions of dollars — sometimes billions — in incentives to big companies to become part of the latest megaproject is often the cost of doing business in the city's development market. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 27 May 2008 | 7:27 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has made it clear he is excited to get out on the campaign trail this election year to help Republicans keep the White House and retake Congress -- but do they want his help?
Moqtada al-Sadr, the unexpected heir to the country's largest Shiite opposition group, has tried to burnish his credentials as a more mainstream figure.
IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) -- Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 6:54 am
Bicycle patrols — a policing tactic that some law enforcement agencies de-emphasized in recent years — are seeing a resurgence as the price of gasoline approaches or surpasses $4 a gallon across the country.
The Iraqi military on Monday displayed a group of weeping teenagers who said they had been forced into training for suicide bombings by a Saudi militant in the last urban stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq.
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 5:35 am
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim, has died of cancer. He was 73.
Experts are divided about how much the Bush administration's engagement with the government of Sudan has improved conditions in a country beset by violence. At the very least, it has provoked charges of hypocrisy.
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned after leaving classified documents at a private residence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling it "a serious error."... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 3:41 am
Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error."
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an unusually strongly worded report.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Thousands of protesters marched through Seoul against a U.S. beef import pact that has renewed fears of mad cow disease. Police said Tuesday that 30 demonstrators were arrested after scuffling erupted.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 27 May 2008 | 2:28 am
Filmmaker Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. A family representative said Pollack passed away at his home in Los Angeles; he was 73. Having started out as an actor, Pollack is best known for his directing; he won an Academy Award for directing Out of Africa in 1985. Pollack also directed the comedy Tootsie in 1982.
LONDON - Former US President Jimmy Carter says he expects Democratic superdelegates to reveal their choice for presidential nominee soon after the final primary in June and that Hillary Clinton will then have to quit the race.
In... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 May 2008 | 1:18 am
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has accused the US of political interference and threatened to expel its ambassador, as his party began its campaign for next month's election run-off.
Mr Mugabe said the US State Department's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 May 2008 | 1:08 am
China is relaxing its one-child policy for victims of the country's earthquake, giving some solace to grieving parents whose offspring were killed or maimed. Parents whose "illegal" child was killed are also exempt from paying fines.
The first detailed color pictures from the Mars Phoenix Lander have arrived on Earth, giving NASA its first close views of Mars' north pole. Guy Raz talks to NPR's Joe Palca at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about what scientists say they are seeing.
KAMPONG SPEU, Cambodia (AP) -- At dawn in a ramshackle elementary school in rural Cambodia, the children think of only one thing: their stomachs. They anxiously await the steaming buckets of free rice delivered to their desks.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 26 May 2008 | 11:35 pm
The Mexican Navy searched for sharks in the ocean near Pacific surfing beaches on Monday, after two bathers were killed and another maimed in a rare spate of shark attacks.
Three boats and a helicopter patrolled the sea while Navy... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 9:52 pm
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 26 May 2008 | 9:36 pm
The number of lesser scaup ducks is dwindling, and it could be an invasive species that does them in. Invasive snails and parasites are attacking these and other ducks on the Upper Mississippi. The snails and their parasites are killing off a duck population already at risk.
The Iraqi Army and police are in control of Basra, after a major operation that initially saw the Iraqi security forces at a disadvantage. The Mehdi Army laid down its weapons, but the southern oil city is essentially under martial law.
Western Sichuan province sits at the intersection of diverse ethnic cultures. One people particularly hard hit by the earthquake is the ancient Qiang minority, in the mountains of Beichuan. They practice an animist religion; many speak a Tibetan-Burmese language.
The damage assessment continues from tornadoes that hit the upper Midwest. At least eight people died in Iowa and Minnesota - the small town of Parkersburg, Iowa, about 80 miles northeast of Des Moines, was the hardest hit. A high school and numerous homes are no longer standing.
As homeowners fall behind on their mortgage payments and face the prospect of foreclosure, con artists are also taking advantage of the mortgage crisis. The FBI's New York office and an advocacy group see people losing their homes in the latest wave of scams.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found several chemicals that may be more effective mosquito repellents than DEET. The gold standard for discouraging mosquitoes, it wasn't known until recently how DEET affects the insects.
DUJIANGYAN - Chinese soldiers have started using explosives to try to drain the first of dozens of newly formed lakes that threaten homeless survivors of this month's earthquake.
As major aftershocks yesterday left six people dead... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 8:40 pm
At the age of 107, Frank Buckles is the last living veteran to serve overseas during World War I. Host Guy Raz checks in with Buckles this Memorial Day to hear about some of his memories of service for the United States.
We offer some of the sounds of the holiday, from Arlington National Cemetery, where President Bush laid a wreath today, and from the National Mall. Host Guy Raz speaks with people there about who they're thinking of on this Memorial Day.
YANGON - Foreign aid workers were heading for the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta yesterday to see whether Army-ruled Myanmar will honour a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.
"We're going to head... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Deutsche Telekom is immersed in a deepening espionage scandal following allegations that senior executives ordered the covert monitoring of thousands of phone calls by customers, staff and journalists in an attempt to plug an information... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Abyei, in the heart of Sudan, was a town of more than 30,000 people. It had a school and a hospital, a marketplace and a bar.
It doesn't exist any more. Almost everything has been burnt to the ground. What remains is devastation.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over the separatist Abkhazia region last month, U.N. observers said Monday in a report likely to bolster U.S.-allied Georgia's claim the Kremlin is undermining its territorial integrity.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:33 a... | 26 May 2008 | 6:11 pm
JAIPUR - Protests by one of India's lower castes spread to new areas as government forces were ordered to evict demonstrators who had blocked highways and railroad tracks, government officials said.
Four days of bloody demonstrations... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says Israel has a nuclear arsenal of 150 weapons, The Times of London reported Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 5:29 pm
Cuban police violently broke up a dissidents' meeting, leaving at least two people in need of medical treatment, opposition sources said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 5:02 pm
Military commanders often ride to power atop a tank. But in Lebanon, the key to Army chief Michel Suleiman's rise to the nation's top job has been keeping his men out of the fight.
Suleiman hasn't taken sides in the struggle for... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
BANGKOK - The deadline for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest expires this week, but Myanmar's military rulers remained silent about her fate yesterday as international donors pushed politics aside to help suffering... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
The pair of scuba divers stranded at sea for nearly 24 hours before they were rescued will help pay for the cost of saving them after reportedly selling their story for more than $1 million, according to The Australian. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 3:50 pm
The United Nations observer mission in Georgia on Monday concluded that the plane that shot down an unmanned Georgian reconnaissance aircraft last month belonged to the Russian military.
Haitian President Rene Preval has nominated his longtime ally Robert Manuel (seen here in 2006) as prime minister amid a political crisis marked by soaring food prices, parliamentary sources said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 2:46 pm
South Koreans held a candlelight vifil Monday protesting a beef import deal with the United States, following clashes and a wave of arrests in Seoul. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 2:30 pm
Australian artists are rallying behind a photographer whose exhibition of images of naked children was shut down. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
National Liberation Forces spokeman Pastuer Habimana (L) and Burundi government representative Evariste Ndayishimiye (R) sign an unconditional ceasefire agreement as South African Ambassador watches in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:52 pm
A money-losing Japanese train company has found the purr-fect mascot to draw crowds and bring back business tabby Tama. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 1:42 pm
Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam pictured in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986. Ethiopia's Supreme Court has sentenced former dictator Mengistu to death in his absence, along with 17 senior officials... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 1:19 pm
Four days of bloody demonstrations in India have claimed the lives of at least 37 people, as one of India's lowest castes has protested its status and drawn constant attack from police and government troops. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 1:13 pm
A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard in Colombo on May 16. At least seven people have been killed and scores more wounded in the bombing of a packed commuter train in the suburbs of the Sri Lankan capital... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 12:58 pm
A Tokyo man obsessed with a recorded female voice has been arrested after spending more than 3,000 hours on a freephone telephone number. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 May 2008 | 10:57 am
Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. Ethiopia's Supreme Court has sentenced former dictator Mengistu to death in his absence, along with 18 senior officials of his regime, overturning a previous... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 10:53 am
Oklahoma residents survey the effects of a tornado in Picher, Oklahoma earlier this month. At least eight people were killed in the midwestern United States as a series of tornadoes swept through the region... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 10:04 am
Most Colombians can't remember a time when the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were not a force to be reckoned with. The death of the FARC's founding leader has many wondering whether the decades-old insurgency might change course.
Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party, speaks during a meeting in Taipei on May 24. The head of Taiwan's ruling party has flown to China for the highest-level contact in more than... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:51 am
New Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou (R) chats with Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party during their meeting in Taipei on May 24. The head of Taiwan's ruling party has flown to China for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:51 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.
A view of Shell's oil and gas terminal on Bonny Island in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta, in 2005. A Nigerian militant group said it had attacked an oil pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the key Niger... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 May 2008 | 9:20 am
AP - Fresh images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health, mission scientists said.
AP - Already under fire for its handling of cyclone victims, Myanmar's military regime detained about 20 members of a democracy activist's opposition party Tuesday.
AP - The Pittsburgh Penguins did a lot more complaining after Game 2 against the Red Wings than scoring in the first two chapters of the Stanley Cup finals. Now they're headed home in a big hole, with more questions than scoring chances. Producing timely offense and perfectionist defense, Detroit is not only beating the Penguins, they are shutting them out.
AFP - Chinese authorities Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as troops scrambled to hold back a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake.
AP - Chinese officials rushed Tuesday to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind a quake-spawned dam, state media reported, as soldiers scraped a channel to try to drain away the threat.
AP - Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents.
AFP - Myanmar's authorities, apparently readying for the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, detained 15 of the democracy leader's supporters Tuesday and stepped up security around her home.
Reuters - A U.S. businessman at the center of a
bribery case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified on
Tuesday he gave the Israeli leader cash-stuffed envelopes but
without expecting any favors in return.
A Chinese news agency says 80,000 people are to be evacuated because of a flood risk in Sichuan province.
Five people were killed Monday when a van barreled into a second van that had sped a red light causing a fiery six-vehicle collision.
AP - There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. Bill, it could be said, was born to run. Running became Hillary's destiny, too.
There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. One quarter of Americans have never known life without a Clinton trying for or having the presidency. Millions have gone from diapers to diplomas in the time of the Clintons.
Police hauled away two dozen opposition party members Tuesday as their leader Aung San Suu Kyi waited for a decision on whether the ruling junta would release her or extend her five-year detention period.
An American businessman who police suspect gave illegal funds to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in court Tuesday to testify about his part in the case.
Several child welfare groups urged an overhaul of laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach meant to encourage their adoption by whites.
Moqtada al-Sadr, the unexpected heir to the country's largest Shiite opposition group, has tried to burnish his credentials as a more mainstream figure.
Bicycle patrols — a policing tactic that some law enforcement agencies de-emphasized in recent years — are seeing a resurgence as the price of gasoline approaches or surpasses $4 a gallon across the country.
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim, has died of cancer. He was 73.
Experts are divided about how much the Bush administration's engagement with the government of Sudan has improved conditions in a country beset by violence. At the very least, it has provoked charges of hypocrisy.