AFP - The biggest corruption trial in Macau's history was set to conclude Wednesday, threatening to expose the murky underworld behind the booming gambling city's gleaming facade.
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Biggest corruption trial in Macau's history concludes (AFP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:49pm EST
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Iran sentences Baha'is to prison (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:46pm EST
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AP - Iran on Tuesday said more than 50 followers of the minority Baha'i faith were convicted of distributing propaganda against the country's Islamic regime, state media reported. -
Winter storm chaos grips China (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:38pm EST
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AP - Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers desperate to get home for the Chinese New Year shivered in the cold under a sea of umbrellas outside train stations Tuesday, as the worst winter storms in half a century paralyzed China.
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Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:32pm EST
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AP - Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Study: Afghanistan could fail as a state (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:03pm EST
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AP - Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent study.
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UK watchdog criticizes racy Ryanair ad (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:54pm EST
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AP - An advertisement portraying a scantily clad schoolgirl seductively twirling her hair is offensive, a British watchdog agency said Wednesday in demanding that low-cost airline Ryanair not run it again. -
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:43pm EST
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AP - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Absence of Nigerian judge stalls Pfizer drug case: lawyer (AFP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:40pm EST
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AFP - A Nigerian court in the northern city of Kano Tuesday adjourned a criminal case against US drug giant Pfizer to February 4 due to the absence of the judge, the defence lawyer said.
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Aid agencies taking donations for Haiti (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:12pm EST
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AP - The following aid agencies are accepting contributions to help Haiti's poor. The list is from InterAction, a coalition of aid agencies, which can be contacted at InterAction at 202-667-8227 or http://www.interaction.org. -
Bush ignores Afghan school violence (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 4:29pm EST
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AP - In his State of the Union address, President Bush called Afghanistan a young democracy where children go to school and Afghans are hopeful. But he didn't mention the violence that has killed 147 students and teachers, and closed 590 schools in the last year almost as many as the 680 the U.S. has built.