Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he is pulling out of the presidential run-off because the vote would not be fair, handing automatic victory to President Robert Mugabe. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:24 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe on Sunday, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, police said. At least 21 suicide attacks have been carried out this year by women.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:19 pm
AP - A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, police said. At least 21 suicide attacks have been carried out this year by women.
Reuters - More than 700 people were
missing on Sunday after a Philippine passenger ship capsized in
a typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of
destruction across the archipelago.
CEBU, Philippines (Reuters) - More than 700 people were missing on Sunday after a Philippine passenger ship capsized in a typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of destruction across the archipelago.
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai quit the country's presidential run-off on Sunday, saying violence had made a fair vote impossible and almost certainly handing victory to veteran leader Robert Mugabe.
Nearly three full months into the 2008 season, the home run leaderboard is dominated by strange and unfamiliar names. Some of the current leaders have never topped 20 jacks...
Fifteen people are killed by a female suicide bomber outside a government building in the northern Iraqi city of Baquba. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:11 pm
AFP - Hundreds are feared dead after a ferry carrying more than 700 passengers and crew sank in rough seas during a typhoon off the central Philippines, officials and reports said Sunday.
A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he'll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:09 pm
Rich Poythress tied a College World Series record with three doubles, Ryan Peisel hit a three-run homer and Georgia withstood Stanford's ninth-inning comeback try to...
Dozens of Palestinian lorry drivers waited to load their goods in the scorching sun on Sunday as Israel said it had started to ease its blockade of Gaza on the fourth day of a truce in and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:04 pm
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said today without citing any specific output increase.
Saudi...
Inside the State Department, Baghdad, Beijing and Berlin are known collectively as the "three Bs" and are at the heart of a multibillion-dollar effort to secure U.S. embassies. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:03 pm
The northernmost barrier island of Florida, 32 miles northeast of Jacksonville, the svelte Amelia Island (13.5 miles long but only 2 miles wide) is a charming getaway boasting...
AP - Despite an intensive $4 billion drive to protect U.S. embassies, at least 150 American missions abroad fall short of security standards put in place after deadly bombings, The Associated Press has learned.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he is pulling out of this week's presidential runoff because of mounting violence and intimidation against his supporters.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:01 pm
AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he is pulling out of this week's presidential runoff because of mounting violence and intimidation against his supporters.
Individuals who are obese are at increased risk of many diseases, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. As 75%-95% of previously obese individuals regain their lost weight, many researchers are interested in developing treatments to help individuals maintain their weight loss. Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
Part of any ethnic cleansing operation is not just wiping out the population and expelling it from the earth. A very typical part of ethnic cleansing is wiping people out of history.For ethnic cleansing to be an effective and successful operation you also have to wipe people out of memory and the Israelis are very good at it.See some of how it was Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
ST. LOUIS - At first it was kind of cute. When the Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series at Busch Stadium, I was happy for their fans. Boston is a passionate and traditional...
PHILADELPHIA - All right, let's get this right up high: We believe Curt Schilling will one day be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He'll get this vote. He has...
Shots were fired during the Juneteenth festival in Minneapolis, sending people scrambling for cover, and three people were wounded, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:52 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING REMARKS, DETAILS) Energy leaders from major oil exporting and consuming countries gathered Sunday in Saudi Arabia for emergency talks in an attempt to get united Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:49 pm
NBC says veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw will moderate "Meet the Press" through the November election in the place of the late Tim Russert. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:43 pm
Reuters - Fifteen people were killed and 35
wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among
policemen having lunch north of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police
and hospital sources said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed and 35 wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among policemen having lunch north of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said.
Call it campaign growing pains. Or bad luck. Or a combination of the two. By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and self-generated controversy in the early days of the general election campaign for the White House. Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:40 pm
AP - For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation, providing a firsthand account of life from the 1660s through World War II.
Dear Carolyn:
How do you make a decision about faith in a mixed-religion couple? How do I have a rational discussion about something that inherently is beyond rationality?
...
Ferrari's Felipe Massa wins the French Grand Prix after team-mate Kimi Raikkonen suffers a broken exhaust, as Lewis Hamilton finishes 10th. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:34 pm
(Kyodo) _ Representatives from major economies continued into Sunday evening a second day of talks in Seoul to work out long-term commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:34 pm
The U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe tells CBS News that President Robert Mugabe is essentially governing illegally, and that the Zimbabwean leader is simply telling a "lie" when he says his government is not behind the bloodshed in his country.
LONDON - British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable communities.
The body that represents the country's local authorities...
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:28 pm
AP - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.
AP - Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.
Voters in Bolivia's gas-rich Tarija province went to the polls on Sunday for an autonomy referendum that President Evo Morales has branded illegal and separatist. Polls... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:26 pm
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Rockets fired from Pakistan hit a village in eastern Afghanistan killing a woman and three children, Afghan officials said on Sunday, one of three cross-border attacks around the same time overnight.
The brains behind Dreams "Kaimin" (“good sleep”) is Dr T. Endo, a neurologist who has made a science, and a lucrative CD business, out of selecting the right music to induce sleep. He divides it into three categories: melodies that fire the imagination; those that are calming and relaxing; and music that should, within ten minutes, slow the brain Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:09 pm
Nearly half of IT workers have admitted to snooping around networks to look at confidential information, according to research from software firm Cyber-Ark. "When it comes down to it, IT has essentially enabled snooping to happen. It's easy -- all you need is access to the right passwords or privileged accounts and you're privy to everything that' Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:08 pm
It continues to mount brutally effective operations around the world, but from Saudi Arabia to the streets of east London, hardline Islamists are turning against Al-Qa'ida in unprecedented numbers. Is the global terror network self-destructing? Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:08 pm
Germany has been labelled the world's greenest country after it cut its energy use by more than any other state in 2007. Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:07 pm
Calls for top oil producers to raise output to bring down soaring prices intensify at a key meeting in Saudi Arabia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:05 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) Three women were attacked with a knife at JR Osaka Station in the city of Osaka on Sunday afternoon, with two of them sustaining minor injuries, police said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:52 pm
Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head — another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:44 pm
Nick Carey is a Chicago correspondent for Reuters who spent last week traveling up and down a 300-mile (480-km) stretch of mid-Mississippi River flood plain as the giant stream overflowed its banks and levees and swallowed up small towns and thousands of acres of some of the richest farmland in America. In the following story he writes of his impressions of people he met as they fortified levees, organized flood responses, and coped with the disaster.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew Sunday from the runoff election against President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, citing mounting violence against his party.
ROME (Reuters) - Rome prosecutors have reopened a probe into a mysterious plane explosion off Sicily in 1980, after former Italian President Francesco Cossiga said the plane was hit by a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:17 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING NIGHT GAMES) Linescores of Sunday's games in Japanese baseball: INTERLEAGUE GAMES At Tokyo Dome Softbank 100 001 001 - 3 9 0 Yomiuri 010 010 000 - 2 6... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:17 pm
The three men, claiming to have been rescued from financial ruin by divine intervention, went to homes and churches across North and South Carolina spreading tales of financial rescue. With an investment of just pennies on the dollar, they promised an end to credit card debt, mortgages and hefty car loans. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:17 pm
EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (Reuters) - The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased on Saturday after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the toll was still rising as billions of dollars in damage to crops, communities and infrastructure were assessed.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING YOMIURI-SOFTBANK GAME) Tomoaki Kanemoto homered in consecutive at-bats and drove in three runs in the Hanshin Tigers' 5-3 win over the Nippon Ham Fighters in ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:09 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO launched a pair of artillery strikes across the border into Pakistan after attackers hiding there fired a barrage of rockets into Afghanistan that killed three children, officials said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:07 pm
NATO launched a pair of artillery strikes across the border into Pakistan after attackers hiding there fired a barrage of rockets into Afghanistan that killed three children, officials... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:07 pm
VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior U.N. inspectors left for Syria on Sunday to investigate U.S. allegations that Damascus built a nuclear reactor in secret for nuclear weapons purposes before the site was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. leak of an Israeli air exercise reported to be practice for possible bombing of Iran's nuclear sites was seen in Israel on Sunday as a deliberate move to increase pressure on Tehran to halt sensitive atomic work.
A French soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrols the Shamali Plains on the outskirts of Kabul. NATO General Egon Ramms has told the Deutschlandfunk radio station... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:23 pm
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of passengers were feared trapped and may have died after their ferry capsized in the Philippines during Typhoon Fengshen, said two survivors who struggled to shore Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:15 pm
Fears grow for more than 700 people on a ferry which capsized in the central Philippines after Typhoon Fengshen. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:57 am
Despite an intensive $4-billion drive to protect U.S. embassies against violence, at least 150 American missions abroad still fall short of security standards put in place after deadly bombings, The Associated Press has learned. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Officials from the Iraqi central government and the self-ruled Kurdish region in the north will resume talks this week in Baghdad to try to settle their differences over a proposed new oil law, a Kurdish spokesman said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:46 am
But this awesome push into the realm of album downloads got us thinking: What other LPs would we like to jam out to in our living room? Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:43 am
Hundreds of passengers were feared trapped and may have died after their ferry capsized in the Philippines during Typhoon Fengshen, said two survivors who struggled to shore Sunday.
Officials from the Iraqi central government and the self-ruled Kurdish region in the north will resume talks this week in Baghdad to try to settle their differences over a proposed new oil law, a Kurdish spokesman said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:41 am
After the fury of Cyclone Nargis, a new disaster looms in Burma: packs of rats that swarm through the hills once every 50 years have consumed everything in their path, reducing thousands of poor farmers to the verge of starvation. Burma's latest human disaster is unfolding almost unseen by the outside world in the jungle-covered mountains... Source: Digg | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:41 am
Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:34 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel increased the trickle of badly needed goods flowing into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a military spokesman said, in the latest stage of a four-day-old truce with Hamas militants.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:29 am
U.S. Marines are trading gunfire and artillery shells with Taliban militants in the volatile southern province of Helmand, the world's largest poppy growing region.
Israeli soldiers routinely abuse shackled Palestinian prisoners, a report by an Israeli human rights group alleges. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:08 am
Noam Schalit, father of captured Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit attend a session at the supreme Court in Jerusalem Sunday, June 22, 2008. The parents of Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas-allied... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 11:06 am
BEIJING (AP) -- Rebuilding in two of China's provinces hit by last month's massive earthquake should be complete by 2010, Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 10:49 am
Iraqi police say a female suicide bomber has blown herself up in front of a government compound northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 35. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 22 Jun 2008 | 10:46 am
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) embraces Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after a 2007 meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Sarkozy is due to start a 48-hour visit to Israel and the occupied... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 10:35 am
UN nuclear watchdog inspectors arrive in Syria to examine an alleged nuclear site bombed by Israel. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 9:50 am
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Somalia's capital was seized from his home by armed men, the agency said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 9:48 am
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali gunmen have kidnapped the local head of the U.N. refugee agency in Mogadishu in the latest abduction of aid workers in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, witnesses said on Sunday.
The Yongbyon-1 nuclear reactor in North Korea. North Korea has invited five media organisations from foreign countries to cover live the blowing-up of a cooling tower at its main nuclear site. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 9:17 am
Despite an intensive $4 billion drive to protect U.S. embassies, at least 150 American missions abroad fall short of security standards put in place after deadly bombings, The Associated Press has learned. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 Jun 2008 | 9:04 am
Typhoon Fengshen has killed 155 people in the Philippines in a torrent of flashfloods and landslides, the head of the Philippines Red Cross, Richard Gordon, told local radio on Sunday, according to Reuters.
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- U.N. nuclear sleuths probing allegations that Syria is hiding secret atomic activities expressed hope Sunday that a trip to Damascus will be the start of a thorough investigation into the accusations.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:28 ... | 22 Jun 2008 | 8:26 am
British diplomat Helen Rawlins struggles to help British women of Pakistani descent lured to Pakistan and forced, sometimes at gunpoint, into marriage. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 22 Jun 2008 | 8:09 am
Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy at a protest in front of Government House in Bangkok on June 20. Thai premier Samak Sundaravej has said that he will not yield to protesters demanding he... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 7:56 am
Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy scuffle with riot police during a protest in front of Government House in Bangkok on June 20. Thai premier Samak Sundaravej has said that he will not yield... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 7:56 am
A photo of Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is seen inside a bird cage in front of the Thai government house as a protest passes in Bangkok on June 21. Sundaravej told the nation that he would not... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 7:56 am
Colombian rebels release a video designed to show that a politician they have been holding hostage is alive. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jun 2008 | 7:48 am
As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
A woman looks at a T-shirt with the slogan "Autonomous" in Tarija province, south Bolivia. Gas-rich Tarija on Sunday becomes the fourth province to vote for an autonomy measure which threatens to split... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 6:21 am
A man drives by a sign reading, "Yes to Autonomy, Long Live Tarija", in Tarija, Bolivia. Gas-rich Tarija on Sunday becomes the fourth province to vote for an autonomy measure which threatens to split Bolivia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 6:21 am
Increasing struggles by consumers and businesses to make payments on a variety of loans, not just mortgages, are setting off a new wave of trouble in the financial sector that is battering even institutions that had steered clear of the subprime-home-loan debacle.
Palestinians attend a demonstration in April in the West Bank city of Nablus calling for the release of their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails. An Israeli rights group claimed on Sunday the military... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 22 Jun 2008 | 6:10 am
BEIJING - A tornado in China tore up 650 houses in just five minutes and damaged nearly 1000, state media said on Sunday, but only one person died.
The tornado touched down in the eastern province of Anhui on Saturday, causing... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Jun 2008 | 2:45 am
MANILA, Philippines - A ferry carrying about 700 people was stranded in wind-whipped waters off the coast of the central Philippines as Typhoon Fengshen battered the country, killing 17.
Coast guard chief Vice Admiral Wilfredo... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Jun 2008 | 1:52 am
A 34-foot-high levee has spared the main part of Hannibal, Mo., the boyhood town of Mark Twain. The surging Mississippi River has swamped other parts of the state.
A major military exercise by Israel in the Mediterranean is believed to be a dry-run for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites. Amir Oren, chief national security correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, offers his take on the maneuvers and their overall message to the world.
Five foreign soldiers die in two bombings in Afghanistan as the Taleban step up their attacks against coalition troops. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:46 pm
KABUL (Reuters) - Artillery shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army compound and close to an international military base in Afghanistan on Saturday and NATO forces returned fire, the alliance said.
Mexico City's mayor accuses police of 'serious errors' during a nightclub raid in which 12 people died in a stampede. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:37 pm
SYDNEY - Australia's two mighty rivers, the Murray and the Darling, irrigate the nation's food bowl, an area the size of France and Germany combined.
But the river system's ecology could be irreversibly damaged before the end of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:00 pm
The flood of 1993 was thought to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for residents of Fort Madison, Iowa. They even filled a downtown museum with artifacts of that historical Mississippi River flood. But 15 years later, history has repeated itself.
Since Zimbabwe's disputed presidential election in March, a steady stream of battered victims of President Robert Mugabe's thugs have come into the capital, Harare, telling stories of horrific intimidation in the countryside.
But... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
MEXICO CITY - Mexico City's mayor has expressed outrage that youths as young as 13 were among the dozen people killed in a nightclub stampede and said the officials involved in the police raid that sparked the crush had been suspended.
Police... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:15 pm
EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois - The swollen Mississippi River's crest rolled downstream on Saturday, sparing St. Louis from major flooding but leaving billions of dollars in damage to crops, houses and infrastructure further north.
Emergency... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:10 pm
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday "no one has the right to cancel an election", amid suggestions of shelving next week's presidential run-off for unity government talks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:05 pm
LONDON - Naomi Campbell accused British Airways of racism just hours after pleading guilty to charges of assaulting a police officer following an "air rage" incident at Heathrow airport.
The 38-year-old supermodel claimed that... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:05 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a court ruling allowing its main pre-election rally in the capital, Harare, to go ahead today, amid fears that violence could boil over ahead of Friday's presidential... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:02 pm
The United States Conference of Mayors is holding its annual conference in Miami this weekend. One of the topics of discussion there is how soaring gas prices are impacting city governments. Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert talks about the ideas that are being proposed to curb the use of gas and about what that city is doing to reduce the pinch fuel is having on the budget.
China, the world's most populous nation, also holds the top spot in another category: carbon dioxide emissions. That's partly because China produces and consumes more cement than the rest of the world combined. Kyle Saunders, a professor at Colorado State University and the editor of the energy blog "The Oil Drum," talks about how cement production relates to global warming.
KABUL (AFP) - Six foreign troops including a Polish national were slain in bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, the forces said, making it the deadliest day for international soldiers in the war-torn nation this year. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:58 pm
LISBON (AFP) - EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso hit back Saturday at recent criticism of the EU executive, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy notably to the fore. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:50 pm
JEDDAH (AFP) - Key oil powers and consumer nations argued on Saturday about whether speculators were to blame for soaring crude prices, on the eve of a crucial meeting on the global energy crisis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:40 pm
A New Zealand concrete worker screamed for help seconds before plunging to his death with a workmate from a Gold Coast high-rise construction site yesterday.
Chris Gear, a 36-year-old father of two, slid off an outdoor swinging... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is warning that any attack on Iran (as military exercises by Israel portend) could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire."
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief urged Syria on Friday to show "transparency" and cooperate with inspectors from the world agency visiting the Mideast country this weekend. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:58 pm
IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei says tells Arab TV that any military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast into a 'ball of fire.' Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:56 pm
The Olympic torch was paraded through the streets of Tibet's capital Saturday, the site of bloody riots in March that triggered demonstrations along the flame's international relay stops. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:01 pm
Viv Mason spent only 100 minutes with her "lover" before he was executed by lethal injection.
With two-and-a-half years of emotional letter writing behind them, she met convicted killer Karl Eugene Chamberlain at the Allan Polunsky... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
LONDON (AFP) - The number of girls to boys in India has hit a record low, British charity ActionAid said Saturday as it urged the government in New Delhi to take "sustained action" to prevent a lost generation of women. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 4:01 pm
An American tourist was charged with murder in Australia on Friday for allegedly drowning his wife during a honeymoon dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Jun 2008 | 3:37 pm
The United States' national basketball team has been in a shambles recently. With the summer Olympics less than two months away, longtime basketball executive Jerry Colangelo hopes to assemble a team that will reverse course and win gold.
Much has been made of the youth vote this election season. Did they make a difference in the primaries? Will they turn out for the general election? What are the issues that matter most to them?
Two hedge fund managers arrested this week face fraud charges for allegedly lying to clients about the health of certain investments. The New York Times' Joe Nocera talks about the charges.
At least a dozen people were crushed to death in a Mexico City nightclub, as panicked youths rushed for the exits during a police raid Friday evening, the capital's police chief said.
Smokers in deprived communities of the Scottish city of Dundee will be offered cash to quit the habit as part of a new program coming in the fall. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Jun 2008 | 2:11 pm
AP - A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, police said. At least 21 suicide attacks have been carried out this year by women.
Reuters - More than 700 people were
missing on Sunday after a Philippine passenger ship capsized in
a typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of
destruction across the archipelago.
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai quit the country's presidential run-off on Sunday, saying violence had made a fair vote impossible and almost certainly handing victory to veteran leader Robert Mugabe.
AFP - Hundreds are feared dead after a ferry carrying more than 700 passengers and crew sank in rough seas during a typhoon off the central Philippines, officials and reports said Sunday.
AP - Despite an intensive $4 billion drive to protect U.S. embassies, at least 150 American missions abroad fall short of security standards put in place after deadly bombings, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he is pulling out of this week's presidential runoff because of mounting violence and intimidation against his supporters.
Reuters - Fifteen people were killed and 35
wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among
policemen having lunch north of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police
and hospital sources said.
AP - For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation, providing a firsthand account of life from the 1660s through World War II.
AP - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.
AP - Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.
Soul diva Amy Winehouse has damaged her lungs by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew Sunday from the runoff election against President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, citing mounting violence against his party.
U.S. Marines are trading gunfire and artillery shells with Taliban militants in the volatile southern province of Helmand, the world's largest poppy growing region.
Typhoon Fengshen has killed 155 people in the Philippines in a torrent of flashfloods and landslides, the head of the Philippines Red Cross, Richard Gordon, told local radio on Sunday, according to Reuters.
As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Increasing struggles by consumers and businesses to make payments on a variety of loans, not just mortgages, are setting off a new wave of trouble in the financial sector that is battering even institutions that had steered clear of the subprime-home-loan debacle.