At least four people have died in a bomb blast at a crowded market in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:51 pm
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:51 pm
AP - Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe invited opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on Sunday after a widely condemned election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation.
Reuters - Poland and the United States may sign an
agreement within the week on installing a U.S. anti-missile
base in Poland, a senior Polish official said on Sunday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:46 pm
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland and the United States may sign an agreement within the week on installing a U.S. anti-missile base in Poland, a senior Polish official said on Sunday.
Massachusetts, a longtime leader in nursing education and in overall health care, is facing a looming crisis on both fronts that threatens to leave its aging population with...
The nursing faculty shortage is being addressed at both state and federal levels. Massachusetts lawmakers have backed the following legislation addressing the state's...
Known for delivering moves such as the "Five Knuckle Shuffle Fist Drop," Bay State native-turned-WWE superstar John Cena throws down when it comes to lifting the...
TOKYO, June 29 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING, CHANGING DATELINE) Heavy rain due to a seasonal rain front continued in a wide area from western to eastern Japan on Sunday, with more than 30... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:38 pm
Bay State electric and natural gas shut-offs are predicted to increase by at least 20 percent this summer as a staggering 125,000 low-income households face energy bill debts...
If you are a .Mac subscriber, Apple appears to have activated the corresponding @me.com email addresses. If your email address was username@mac.com previously, you can now use username@me.com and emails should arrive in your .Mac mailbox. In the near future, Apple will be migrating all the email services to Me.com Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:33 pm
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:29 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday declared two soldiers held by Lebanese militants to be dead and urged his Cabinet to vote for a deal to swap their bodies for a notorious Lebanese prisoner.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:28 pm
AP - A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said.
A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:28 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday declared two soldiers held by Lebanese militants to be dead and urged his Cabinet to vote for a deal to swap their bodies for a notorious... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:28 pm
Robert Mugabe says he is heading for a "sweeping victory" in the unopposed run-off vote to choose Zimbabwe's president. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:25 pm
AP - Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities.
Reuters - Israel reopened three of its border
crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a
halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had
strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel reopened three of its border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recommended to his cabinet on Sunday that it approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah to recover two soldiers whose seizure by the guerrillas triggered the 2006 Lebanon war.
AP - A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant but ultimately doomed battle against the surging river.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Conservative Anglican leaders pledged on Sunday to stay in the worldwide Anglican Communion but form a council of bishops to provide an alternative to churches they say are preaching a "false gospel" of sexual immorality.
AP - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.
(Kyodo) _ Bare struck twice as Gamba Osaka closed in on J-League leaders Urawa Reds with a comfortable 4-2 win at home to lowly Consadole Sapporo on Sunday. Urawa suffered a surprise... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:14 pm
Marshfield turned into the Wild, Wild West this weekend as a rodeo and other cowboy events giddyupped into town at the first New England Wild West Fest.
About 180 cowboys...
Forty police officers are feared drowned in eastern India after a police motor boat capsizes after a rebel attack. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:13 pm
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged his cabinet to approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah even though Israel now knew that two soldiers captured by Lebanon's Shiite militia in 2006 were dead. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:12 pm
AP - Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels hope the new international mediator for Darfur has the power to wring concessions from the Khartoum government to kickstart a stalled peace process and help end suffering on the ground.
(Kyodo) _ Teenager Yuriko Kobayashi won her first 5,000-meter crown and secured a berth in the Beijing Olympics along with three others at the national athletics championships on Sunday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:05 pm
Their science is impressive, but their timing is dead on. It doesn’t quite seem fair that California has been blessed with the perfect growing climate for some of the world’s best agriculture (and of course, wine) but saddled with a water shortage. To help, Fruition Sciences have turned the science of hydration monitoring into an art. Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:02 pm
Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar shells Saturday as the government launched a major offensive against Taliban fighters threatening the main city in the country's volatile northwest, officials said.
Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had abandoned months ago in the Khyber region as Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants in the volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.
At the beginning of yesterday's funeral for Army National Guard Sgt. Nelson Rodriguez Ramirez, 22, of Revere, his mother went to the pulpit of Immaculate Conception Church,...
Reuters - President Robert Mugabe invited
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on
Sunday after a widely condemned election which African
observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and
intimidation.
(Kyodo) _ ---------- U.N. chief urges Japan to set 'far-reaching' midterm CO2 cut target KYOTO - Visiting U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Sunday called on Japan to set a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:55 am
KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: FIXING TYPO IN HEADLINE) Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Sunday sought refuge at the Turkish Embassy over alleged death... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:53 am
Ehud Olmert reportedly says two captured soldiers are dead, as cabinet debates swapping prisoners with Hezbollah. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:51 am
Handwriting analysts say the jailhouse letters Neil Entwistle wrote after murdering his wife and child reveal the personality of a "charmer" with a penchant for...
Five single moms living with their kids in a Waltham shelter opened the door yesterday to a bright future with the help of Cambridge-based nonproft Heading Home.
The...
Robert Mugabe's inauguration for a new term as Zimbabwe's president was fixed for Sunday after a one-man run-off election that drew international calls for fellow African leaders to reject... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:39 am
HARARE (AFP) - Robert Mugabe's inauguration for a new term as Zimbabwe's president was fixed for Sunday after a one-man run-off election that drew international calls for fellow African leaders to reject his legitimacy. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:39 am
SAITAMA, Japan, June 29 (Kyodo) _ Relatives of a Japanese national abducted by North Korea 30 years ago criticized the Japanese government Sunday for "a lack of enthusiasm" in resolving... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:38 am
A Hezbollah militant plants his group's flag on a billboard bearing the images of captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser (right) and Eldad Regev on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab village near the Lebanon-Israel... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:37 am
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday discussed a possible prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite militia with which the Jewish state fought a devastating summer war two years ago. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:37 am
LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have secured an area in the Khyber region, where a key supply route passes into Afghanistan, a day after launching an offensive to push back militants threatening Peshawar.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province on Sunday, police said.
Bugs Bunny was hunted by Elmer Fudd. The birds at Logan International Airport are stalked by truck 129.
That's the story line of an avian drama posted on YouTube...
A British soldier has been killed after stepping on a mine in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:10 am
BARA (AFP) - Pakistan's government claimed Sunday that it had saved the northwestern city of Peshawar from militants as troops pushed forward on the second day of a major offensive against the rebels. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:59 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe was preparing to be sworn in for a new term Sunday and extend his nearly three decades as Zimbabwe's ruler, claiming victory in a violent and widely discredited runoff election.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:58 am
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks refuge in the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur, after receiving threats. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:55 am
If anyone knows what it takes to be a Hall of Fame pitcher, it's a Hall of Fame pitcher.
There are only 19 men alive today who fit that description, and when the...
A general view of Mongolia's capital of Ulan Bator. Mongolian voters dressed in traditional silk cloaks tied with colourful sashes streamed into polling stations as the nation began crucial parliamentary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
A Mongolian woman casts her vote at a polling station in Ulan Bator. Mongolian voters dressed in traditional silk cloaks tied with colourful sashes streamed into polling stations as the nation began crucial... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
Waitrose pulled the fruit from shelves in case other spiders had entered the country in the same consignment. The black widow - the world's fifth most poisonous spider - was found by nine-year-old Harriet Barron in a fruit bowl at her home. Minutes earlier, her brother Elliot had been eating from the same bunch while watching television. Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:47 am
Forty police officers were feared drowned in eastern India on Sunday after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat, capsizing it in a rushing river, a local official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:45 am
Huge crowds are expected for San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade as revelers celebrate their newfound freedom to marry. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:31 am
Communist guerrillas attacked a police station and burned a cellular phone transmission tower in the southern Philippines, sparking clashes with government forces that killed at least 11 people, an army official said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:28 am
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:24 am
The crash of a small plane near Las Vegas has killed four people and started a fire that is threatening homes. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:23 am
Protesters clashed with police in Tokyo Sunday during demonstrations against an upcoming summit of leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:17 am
As the gap grows between places that are prospering and those that are not, Democrats are strengthening their hold in major metropolitan areas, particularly in places faring well in the technology-driven economy. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 10:07 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
Zimbabwean officials have scheduled President Robert Mugabe's inauguration for Sunday afternoon. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:47 am
Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
TV's "Evening Magazine" takes a 2008 look at the rise of hippie culture in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in the Summer of Love, 1967. Included are a historical look back as well as coverage of a new Hippie Museum in Vancouver. Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:40 am
A blast at a crowded roadside market Sunday in India's restive northeast killed six people and injured 40, a local official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel reopened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday to allow a trickle of goods into the territory, putting a rocky cease-fire back on course after Palestinian rocket attacks last week led to a closure of the passages.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:20 am
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, under pressure to raise human rights and Tibet with Chinese officials, emphasized friendship over friction during a visit to China on Sunday.
The northern Illinois community of Elizabeth tried Saturday to set a world record for the largest Gathering of Elizabeths. Women with Elizabeth in any part of their name were allowed in; one participant has Elizabeth as a last name. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 9:09 am
Euro 2008 reaches its climax on Sunday when Spain face a Germany team who could be without captain Michael Ballack. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:57 am
United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan reports that Neil Sauter ended his eight-week journey Friday in Ironwood, Mich., on the Upper Peninsula border with Wisconsin. He began walking in early May from southeast Michigan. Sauter has raised $16,000 for United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. A 3-to-1 matching federal grant pushes that total to $64,000. Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:29 am
Thousands of rioters torched police and government office buildings in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, residents and state media reported on Sunday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:27 am
A British soldier stands alert in the village of Biabanak in Kandahar province in 2007. A British soldier with NATO forces in Afghanistan has been killed in a mine blast in the troubled southern province... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:23 am
Robert Mugabe's mother told him when he was a child that he had been chosen by God to be a great leader. No wonder he thinks only divine power — not elections, not foreign critics, not a crumbling economy or a much younger opposition leader — can unseat him.
San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address associated with Mrs. McCain's trust, were returned by the post office. Source: Digg | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:10 am
But as justices finished their work last week, two overarching truths about the court remained unchanged: It is sharply divided ideologically on some of the most fundamental constitutional questions, and the coming presidential election will determine its future path. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 29 Jun 2008 | 8:01 am
Riot police use water canons on protesters to disperse them during an anti-US beef rally in Seoul early on June 27. South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports here Sunday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 7:55 am
Angry crowds attack government buildings in south-west China in protest at the death of a teenage girl. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 7:48 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Protesters fought riot police early Sunday at a rally opposing the resumption of American beef imports to South Korea, hours after the chief U.S. diplomat vouched for the health of U.S. cattle.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 29 Jun 2008 | 7:29 am
A guide to the situation in Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe is about to be sworn in as president again, after a one-candidate run-off election overshadowed by reports of violent intimidation of his opponents. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 7:25 am
Conservative Anglican leaders are to create a new global alliance to combat liberal trends in the Church. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jun 2008 | 7:08 am
The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win a game in which they didn’t get a hit, defeating the Angels 1-0 on Saturday night.
Vice President of Anwar's Keadilan Party, Sivarasa Rasiah (centre, gold shirt), at a press conference in Shah Alam, Malaysia on 29 June. The country's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denounced as a "complete... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:50 am
Vice President of Anwar's Keadilan Party, Sivarasa Rasiah (C) speaks during a news conference in Shah Alam on 29 June. Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denounced as a "complete fabrication" new... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:50 am
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised China's post-quake recovery efforts during a visit to the disaster zone on Sunday, saying that it contrasted with Myanmar's reluctance to allow in aid after a cyclone devastated the country. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:04 am
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (seen here on June 27) arrived in China's earthquake-devastated southwest on Sunday to offer support to victims, ahead of official talks in Beijing, according to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:51 am
A woman walks past a sign advertising an Internet bar in Shanghai. Rioters in southwestern China torched government buildings and cars after anger over a probe into a school girl's death exploded into... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:45 am
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The endangered leatherback turtle has made a surprise return to nest in Malaysia where they were feared to have been wiped out, but experts are worried the precious eggs will not hatch. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:25 am
Vice President of Anwar's Keadilan Party, Sivarasa Rasiah (C gold shirt) speaks during a news conference in Shah Alam, on 29 June. Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denounced as a "complete fabrication"... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:20 am
Angry villagers set fire to police and government offices and overturned vehicles in southwest China to protest how officials handled a teenage student's death, a human rights organization and witnesses said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:11 am
TOKYO (AFP) - The Group-of-Eight industrialised nations will jointly invest more than 10 billion dollars a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:11 am
Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night — and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 29 Jun 2008 | 4:54 am
PARIS (AFP) - Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 4:08 am
The U.S. plans to introduce a U.N. resolution seeking tough sanctions against Zimbabwe, possibly including an arms embargo and a travel ban on Mugabe regime officials.
PARIS (AFP) - A Paris court is to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jun 2008 | 3:37 am
Coalition troops fought gunbattles and called in airstrikes against insurgents in Southern Afghanistan. Other violence left five construction workers, a police officer and a British troop dead.
After tightening security for four days following rocket attacks, Israel is ready to ease blockade restrictions, according to Israeli defense officials.
Germany faces Spain in the finals of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament in Vienna on Sunday. Eric Goetz of Lebanon, N.H., talks about what it's like living in a soccer-indifferent country during this tournament.
A $50,000 bribe has landed one of America's top tort lawyers in prison. Mississippi-native Dickie Scruggs was sentenced Friday to five years behind bars. Journalist Peter J. Boyer, who profiled Scruggs in the May 19th issue of The New Yorker magazine, discusses the case.
Sen. John McCain appeared at a meeting of Latino officials in Washington on Saturday. So did the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, who was received much more warmly.
An Iranian opposition group holds a mass rally in Paris on Saturday to demonstrate against the Islamist government in Tehran. Thousands of Iranian exiles turned out along with supporters from Europe, Asia and North America.
PARIS (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Paris.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 28 Jun 2008 | 9:56 pm
President Bush has called for additional sanctions against Zimbabwe, which held a runoff presidential election on Friday that was marred by violence and widely seen as a sham. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, who is on her way to a summit meeting of the African Union, talks about sanctions and what she hopes to gain at the meeting.
MEYRIN, Switzerland (AP) -- The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 28 Jun 2008 | 7:08 pm
South Africa deported some 450 Zimbabweans overnight from a border detention center to a homeland beset by political violence and uncertainty, an international aid group said.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Robert Mugabe's mother told him when he was a child that he had been chosen by God to be a great leader. No wonder he thinks only divine power - not elections, not foreign critics, not a crumbling economy or a much younger opposition leader - can unseat him.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 28 Jun 2008 | 6:40 pm
Amanda Knox boasts in her diary that she has received dozens of fan letters from men since she's been in prison for allegedly participating in the gruesome sexual assault and killing of her roommate in Italy. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:26 pm
Severe storms with strong winds swept through the Nebraska Plains yesterday, forcing swimmers practising for US Olympic trials in Omaha to flee pools, killing two people in Iowa, and cutting power to thousands.
Officials at the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Bad for strawberries, great for asparagus and turnips. This is the small-print for gardening enthusiasts buying a second home on Mars, should the day arrive when humans colonise it.
Scientists analysing soil lifted from the surface... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks - and it may soon become one again.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:51 a... | 28 Jun 2008 | 4:10 pm
Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar shells Saturday as the government launched a major offensive against Taliban fighters threatening the main city in the country's volatile northwest, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 4:10 pm
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that even after North Korea handed over inventory of its nuclear activities, the country still had not answered to allegations of uranium enrichment and nuclear proliferation. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 3:45 pm
An Australian woman jailed in 2003 for the sickening "hog-tying" death of her 18-month-old daughter has revealed she is going to be a mother again. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 3:41 pm
Gunmen in Somalia kidnapped three people - a Swede, a Dane and a Somali - working with a U.N. program to clear land mines in the volatile east African country. Five Somali soldiers were wounded during the kidnapping.
Zimbabwe's runoff election, in which President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate, was denounced globally as a sham. Britain's Foreign Office Minister, Mark Malloch Brown, says it used to be Mugabe against the U.S. and Britain, but today, it's him against the world.
Swiss champ to square off against the last man to win the title before Federer began winning streak of five. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 2:41 pm
The Supreme Court is in recess for the summer, but the justices ended this week with some major and very close decisions. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg talks with Scott Simon about the end of the court term.
A day after the Supreme Court issued a landmark gun ruling striking D.C.'s handgun ban, the National Rifle Association filed suit in five jurisdictions to overturn their bans as well. One of the suits is against San Francisco over its ban on handguns in public housing.
Despite a flurry of promising steps in the effort to get North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice found herself next door on Saturday defending the dignity of American cattle. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 1:18 pm
The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide attack that killed three U.S. Marines and 20 others, including tribal leaders opposed to Al Qaeda.
Eighty members of Australia's Overwatch Battle Group - the last of that nation's troops serving in combat roles in southern Iraq - returned home yesterday, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
There hasn't yet been any official North Korean reaction to the destruction of the most visible symbol of its nuclear program, but a U.S. diplomat who witnessed it said Saturday that the big blast saddened government officials there. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
AP - Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.
AP - Huge crowds are expected for San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade as revelers celebrate their newfound freedom to marry.
AP - A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said.
AP - Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities.
Reuters - Israel reopened three of its border
crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a
halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had
strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.
AP - A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant but ultimately doomed battle against the surging river.
AP - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.
AP - Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler.
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Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had abandoned months ago in the Khyber region as Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants in the volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.
Reuters - President Robert Mugabe invited
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on
Sunday after a widely condemned election which African
observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and
intimidation.
Robert Mugabe's mother told him when he was a child that he had been chosen by God to be a great leader. No wonder he thinks only divine power — not elections, not foreign critics, not a crumbling economy or a much younger opposition leader — can unseat him.
South Korea, which eats more beef than most others in Asia, is in the dizzying throes of a beef-triggered populist upheaval.
The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win a game in which they didn’t get a hit, defeating the Angels 1-0 on Saturday night.