AOMORI (AFP) - The Group of Eight (G8) industrial powers were meeting with China, India and South Korea in northern Japan on Sunday amid deepening worries over record oil prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:46 am
AP - When Big Brown turned for home, something wasn't right. Jockey Kent Desormeaux knew the big bay colt was finished. Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who guaranteed racing's first Triple Crown in 30 years, knew it, too.
"Several recent studies have shown that having periodontal disease makes those with type 2 diabetes more likely to develop worsened glycemic control, and puts them at much greater risk of end-stage kidney disease and death," (George W. Taylor, University of Michigan schools of Dentistry and Public Health) Source: Digg | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:30 am
AP - Severe storms flooded central Indiana with as much as 10 inches of rain Saturday and spawned tornadoes that ripped up roofs and flipped tractor-trailers in Wisconsin and the Chicago suburbs.
Columbia says it holds a Venezuelan guard who was trying to deliver ammunition to Marxist rebels. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:28 am
St. Louis Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright left the game after spraining his right middle finger in the sixth inning Saturday night in Houston. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:25 am
Reuters - Big Brown's Triple Crown
dreams wilted in the searing heat when 38-1 longshot Da' Tara
won the Belmont Stakes in a wire-to-wire shocker Saturday.
ELMONT, New York (Reuters) - Big Brown's Triple Crown dreams wilted in the searing heat when 38-1 longshot Da' Tara won the Belmont Stakes in a wire-to-wire shocker Saturday.
Administrators of a Washington psychiatric hospital have asked a federal district judge to expand release privileges of would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr., court records show. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:15 am
The Coast Guard says it's searching for six people in the Gulf of Mexico who were competing in a boat race. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:09 am
Officials say an airplane carrying 10 people is missing after taking off from an airport in southern Chile. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:05 am
Hillary Clinton tells supporters she is suspending her campaign to win the US presidency and is backing Barack Obama. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:57 am
Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel successfully completed a shortened jump Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:36 am
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada said on Saturday it had wrapped up free trade negotiations with Colombia and reached agreement on related labor and environmental issues, but the deal could raise criticism from opposition lawmakers concerned about the Andean country's human rights record.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency on Saturday and summoned supporters to use "our energy, our passion, our strength" to put Barack Obama in the White House.
Energy ministers from the world's top industrialised nations meet in Japan as oil prices threaten the global economy. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:15 am
Here's a good way to destroy $1.4 billion in a matter of seconds. This footage was just released today and is from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. It happened on Feb 23, 2008. Source: Digg | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:10 am
(Kyodo) _ Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has been advised by President Pervez Musharraf not to talk to the press as his case is under review, according to family Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:06 am
As of Saturday, June 7, 2008, at least 4,092 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:04 am
As of Saturday, June 7, 2008, at least 443 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 31 at 10 a.m. EDT. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:03 am
(Kyodo) _ Kyodo World Service now begins the news cycle for Sunday, June 8. The news materials are handled by Kyodo World Service editors in Tokyo. For inquiries on news stories,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:02 am
Gordon Brown is embroiled in a major diplomatic row with the United States over controversial plans for new airline taxes which could see British families paying £400 extra for transatlantic flights. Source: Digg | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:01 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel at the Chaung Tha beach resort in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and workers.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:54 pm
AP - When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel at the Chaung Tha beach resort in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and workers.
A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:51 pm
It’s hard to believe that the original Metal Gear Solid was released nearly a decade ago. Now that Metal Gear Solid 4 is ready for release, I thought it would be fitting to see some artistic interpretations of this famous franchise. Source: Digg | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:48 pm
The upcoming Pyro update bound for Valve's multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 is "almost completely wrapped" and will include changes to the core class beyond the addition of unlockable weapons and achievements. Source: Digg | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:35 pm
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki is in Tehran for talks expected to cover Iran's alleged support for militants and US-Iraqi relations. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:28 pm
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:27 pm
AP - Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: "They're all gone."
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is recovering satisfactorily after having a cancerous lesion removed from his tongue, his doctor said Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:25 pm
The Phoenix Mars lander delivers a soil sample to an onboard oven, but the material is not registered by the instrument. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:25 pm
Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:16 pm
The UN Security Council raises the prospect of pulling peacekeepers out of DR Congo after talks in Kinshasa. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:13 pm
The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization. Source: Digg | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:12 pm
Sports journalist Jim McKay has died at 86. McKay hosted ABC's World Wide of Sports for more than 40 years. He came to national prominence when he covered the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and brought the American public news that terrorists captured and killed 11 Israeli athletes.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) -- Armed assailants trying to break into the home of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci exchanged fire with guards, but the leader was away and his family was not hurt, police said Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:42 pm
VIENNA (Reuters) - Portugal served notice that they will be again be among the title challengers when they turned on the style to outclass Turkey 2-0 on an entertaining first day of Euro 2008 on Saturday.
Renaissance Village was Louisiana's largest trailer park created by FEMA to shelter victims of Hurricane Katrina. The park officially closed this week. Sister Judith Brun directs the Community Initiative Foundation in Baton Rouge, which provided relief services to the residents of Renaissance Village. She talks with Andrea Seabrook about the end of the Renaissance Village community and what's next for the former residents.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hosts the National Conference of Black Mayors, which wraps up Saturday. Andrea Seabrook talks with Nagin about the issues facing the black mayors today.
A BBC film crew captures the giant panda's full courtship and mating sequence - from boisterous beginning to noisy ending. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:04 pm
The students at Howard University Middle School in Washington are predominantly African-American. Andrea Seabrook talks with students and teachers there about what Barack Obama's candidacy means to them.
Jim McKay, the veteran and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.
AP - Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
Nasteh Dahir, a freelance contributor to the BBC, is the latest journalist to be killed in Somalia Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:26 pm
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders that were expected to focus on a proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement that Iran fears will keep the U.S. military in neighboring Iraq for years.
Marine archaeologists have salvaged ancient wine vases piled on the hull of a 2,350-year-old cargo ship lying on the seabed off Cyprus' southern shore.
Portugal's Euro 2008 campaign opens in impressive fashion with victory over Turkey in Geneva. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:45 pm
Ireland is poised to vote narrowly in favour of a key European Union reform treaty in a referendum next week, according to the final opinion poll in the campaign being released Sunday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:40 pm
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Saturday revoked a law he decreed last month creating four spy agencies and a Cuban-style national informants' network, saying the measure contained... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:36 pm
MIANYANG, China - Water poured from a massive lake formed by China's deadly earthquake in a carefully engineered diversion Saturday that eased - but did not eliminate - the threat of flooding for a million people in the sprawling... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:29 pm
Iraqi soccer funs celebrate their national soccer team win against Australia, in a World Cup qualifying match, in Karradah, downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Iraq won 1-0.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:21 pm
Iraqi soccer funs reacts as thy watch on a World Cup qualifying soccer match between Iraq and Australia on television in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Iraq won... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:21 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:18 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton on Saturday threw her full support behind Barack Obama, as she unequivocally endorsed the Democratic White House nominee and vowed to do all she could to make her former foe president. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:10 pm
The first sample of Martian dirt dumped onto the opening of the Phoenix lander's tiny testing oven failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind his candidacy and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.
Musician Bono and his wife arrive at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Gala dinner in Hampton, England , Saturday, June 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
Police in Nepal's capital broke up a protest Saturday by hundreds of Tibetan exiles against Chinese rule in their homeland, detaining many of them, officials said.
Race horse Big Brown is attempting to do something on Saturday that no horse has done in 30 years — win the Triple Crown. The Belmont Stakes is the third and final jewel in the horse-racing crown.
Senator Hillary Clinton has suspended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and is now endorsing former rival, Barack Obama. She spoke to supporters on Saturday in Washington.
The return to power of Italian media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi is a boon for the European Union, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Saturday. Italy and France "can work... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:54 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition will hold rallies in the capital Sunday thanks to a favorable court ruling, an official said Saturday, with only weeks to go before its leader faces Robert Mugabe in a presidential runoff. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:35 pm
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has ended her historic campaign for the presidency and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as gruelling as it was groundbreaking.
The former first... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:27 pm
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- Water poured from a massive lake formed by China's deadly earthquake in a carefully engineered diversion Saturday to ease the threat of flooding for a million people in the sprawling disaster zone.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:22 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's High Court on Saturday overturned a police ban on opposition rallies this weekend ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off, a lawyer for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said.
Trucks sit on a road, stuck on road blocks set up by farmers on strike, near Arroyo Seco, some 280 kms (173 miles) north of Buenos Aires, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Argentina's farmers continued Saturday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:10 pm
In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, right, receives Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani after his arrival in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:10 pm
Opponents of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez protest in Caracas, June 7, 2008, after a Venezuelan top anti-corruption official unveiled a blacklist that could bar key opposition candidates from running... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:09 pm
When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:39 pm
An Iranian player hugs their goalie Sayed Mahdi Rahmati after Iran won 1-0 in the Asia 2010 World Cup Qualifier at the Tahnoun Bin Mohammed Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, June 7, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:34 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - Threats to attack nuclear plants on suspicion they would one day make bombs could undermine the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's opposition will hold rallies in the capital Sunday following a favorable court ruling, an official said Saturday, with only weeks to go before its leader faces longtime President Robert Mugabe in a runoff.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:31 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition will hold rallies in the capital Sunday following a favorable court ruling, an official said Saturday, with only weeks to go before its leader faces longtime... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:31 pm
KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. envoys met Congo President Joseph Kabila on Saturday and backed his plans to disarm and expel Rwandan rebels behind years of strife, and to refocus the biggest U.N. peace force on rebuilding his shattered nation.
A handicapped child plays on a swing at an orphanage in Harare, Saturday June 7, 2008. Aid agencies have expressed deep concern about the government's order for humanitarian groups and non governmental... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:05 pm
The United States on Friday accused President Robert Mugabe's Government of using food aid as a political weapon to get votes in Zimbabwe's run-off election on June 27.
"We are dealing with a desperate regime here which will do... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
A singer of the Glitterbanditz, is seen in front of the statue of the Greek Independence hero, Theodoros Kolokotronis, while leading the second large scale gay pride parade held in central Athens, Greece,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:57 pm
Hillary Clinton ends her historic quest to become the first female president today. In a speech in Washington, the New York senator tells her supporters to unite behind former rival Barack Obama.
AOMORI, Japan (AP) -- Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:47 pm
Japan and North Korea opened talks here on Saturday in a bid to resolve long-standing bilateral disputes and normalise relations, officials said. Japan announced Friday that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:32 pm
Zimbabwe's High Court overturns a ban on opposition campaign rallies, according to an opposition spokesman. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:28 pm
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gestures during his meeting with international executives during the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 7, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:26 pm
(Kyodo) _ Maritime accident investigators have found that the Aegis destroyer Atago had stationed no sailors at lookout posts on the deck of both sides of its bridge due to cold weather... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:10 pm
(Kyodo) _ Kyodo World Service now closes the news cycle for Saturday, June 7. The service will reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday Tokyo time. We may reopen the service at any moment to cover... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:10 pm
SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday blamed "aggressive" US policies for the world's current economic woes and put forward Russia's growing energy power as a possible solution. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:05 pm
China has sent medical teams to offer reverse sterilisation operations to women who lost children in last month's Sichuan earthquake but want to give birth again, state media reported.
Under China's one-child family planning policy,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
An Austrian judge has extended Josef Fritzl's detention for a further two months, a court spokesman announced last week.
Fritzl, 73, was first remanded in custody in April after telling police he held his daughter prisoner for... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
The first president of autonomous Bougainville, Joseph Kabui, has died in hospital of a suspected heart attack.
Bougainville leaders gathered in Buka, the capital, for emergency talks following the president's death, Papua New... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Oil prices have doubled over the past year and risen 44 per cent this year alone, with US crude surging to a record high US$139.12 ($181.447) a barrel on Friday, a troubling rise for energy ministers of the Group of Eight Nations... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
The Phoenix lander has scooped up its first, cup-sized sample of Martian dirt for analysis, kicking off the spacecraft's primary science mission of searching for water or signs of life on the Red Planet.
The small sample includes... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Britain's most senior police officer said on Friday that pop stars and celebrities who are pictured apparently taking drugs should be put on trial to prove they were snorting talcum powder and not cocaine.
London Metropolitan Police... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Five helicopters working for the U.N. landed Saturday in Myanmar to help with cyclone relief efforts, as problems continued to dog efforts to help victims of the May 2-3 storm.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 4:28 pm
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- They squander their days watching TV and surfing the Web instead of studying, but it's not for lack of discipline: Gaza students accepted at foreign universities are stuck at home because Israel and Egypt won't let them leave the blockaded territory.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 4:15 pm
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (AP) -- This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 3:58 pm
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) -- Abdellilah Meddich's childhood memories of the famous palm grove of Marrakech are of a "magical" place, a lush desert oasis of flowers, animals and farmers who tended tree-shaded plots.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 p.m. EDT | 7 Jun 2008 | 3:52 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday he had no immediate plan to resign or go into exile, in a bid to quash rising speculation he will quit office soon.
SCHEVENINGEN (AFP) - Europe's top fisheries official promised relief "within weeks" for the industry Saturday as fishermen, farmers and truck drivers continued protests against the steep price of fuel. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 3:08 pm
In Saturday's Belmont Stakes, Big Brown is vying for the rare Triple Crown of horseracing. Scott Simon previews the race with William Nack, ESPN commentator and author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion.
Scott Simon speaks to U.S. Navy Commander Mark Kelly and Lt. Col. Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federation Air Force about life on the International Space Station and U.S. space shuttle's the mission to deliver the "Kibo" Japanese Experiment Laboratory.
The long road to the Democratic presidential nomination came to an end as Sen. Barack Obama gained enough delegates to clinch the nomination, and he shifted his focus towards the race against Republican John McCain in the fall.
BEIRUT (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy stressed his country's support for newly elected Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and for reconciliation through dialogue, during a brief visit to Beirut on Saturday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 2:38 pm
MAJINGXIANG, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops on Saturday eased pressure on a swelling "quake lake" threatening hundreds of thousands of people, but a smaller lake burst its banks in a show of destructive force.
MIANYANG (AFP) - A dam blocking a swollen "quake lake", which could threaten the lives of 1.3 million people in southwest China, is in no danger of imminent collapse, state media said Saturday, as workers began to drain the water. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 1:31 pm
SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP) - The head of TNK-BP fought off speculation Saturday about an imminent ownership shake-up, as a senior US official said the world is watching how Russia handles tensions over the British-Russian oil giant. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Jun 2008 | 12:56 pm
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf vowed Saturday to resist pressure for him to resign but suggested he might quit if Parliament reduces him to a toothless figurehead.
AOMORI, Japan (Reuters) - Energy officials from five top consumer nations urged producers to step up investment on Saturday, a day after crude's biggest surge ever, but they offered no new ideas on how to deal with record prices and remained divided on fuel subsidies.
AP - When Big Brown turned for home, something wasn't right. Jockey Kent Desormeaux knew the big bay colt was finished. Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who guaranteed racing's first Triple Crown in 30 years, knew it, too.
AP - Bo Diddley's funeral rocked and rolled Saturday with as much energy as his music.
AP - Severe storms flooded central Indiana with as much as 10 inches of rain Saturday and spawned tornadoes that ripped up roofs and flipped tractor-trailers in Wisconsin and the Chicago suburbs.
Reuters - Big Brown's Triple Crown
dreams wilted in the searing heat when 38-1 longshot Da' Tara
won the Belmont Stakes in a wire-to-wire shocker Saturday.
AP - Astronauts debuted the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency on Saturday and summoned supporters to use "our energy, our passion, our strength" to put Barack Obama in the White House.
AP - When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel at the Chaung Tha beach resort in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and workers.
Big Brown failed in his bid to become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner when he finished dead last to Da’ Tara in the Belmont Stakes.
AP - Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: "They're all gone."
Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday, declaring her full support for Barack Obama.
Jim McKay, the veteran and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.
AP - Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
Marine archaeologists have salvaged ancient wine vases piled on the hull of a 2,350-year-old cargo ship lying on the seabed off Cyprus' southern shore.
The first sample of Martian dirt dumped onto the opening of the Phoenix lander's tiny testing oven failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.
Police in a Colorado town say they've caught two alleged "thong bandits" who used women's underwear to disguise themselves during a robbery.![Renowned chef Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago demonstrates the versatility of cooking with cranberries at Ocean Spray's "Windy City Bog", on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. The breath-taking beauty of the cranberry harvest visited Chicago for three days as part of Ocean Spray's "Bogs Across America" tour. (Feature Photo Serivce) (Newscom TagID: fpsphotos004331) [Photo via Newscom]](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080607/080607-chef-hlg-11a.thumb.jpg)
The dining room at Alinea is a rare and special place where dark-suited waiters glide past tables, carrying trays laden with fantastical creations.
Emergency crews are rescuing residents from swamped homes in southern Indiana after storms dumped nearly 10 inches of rain on the region.