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Yahoo! News: World News: Top al-Qaida figure killed in Pakistan (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:47:50 -0500

AP - A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a brazen bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Canada PM threatens Afghanistan pullout (AFP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:37:23 -0500

AFP - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned his British counterpart Gordon Brown that Ottawa would pull its 2,500 soldiers out of Afghanistan if it does not get reinforcements from other countries, Harper's office said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Japan kills whales as protesters pull out: report (AFP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:21:03 -0500

AFP - Japanese harpoonists killed five whales in one day after protesters who had halted the hunt in Antarctic waters were forced to return to port to refuel, an Australian report said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: EU says "enormous" progress made in trade talks with SKorea (AFP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:16:31 -0500

AFP - The European Union made "enormous progress" in its latest round of free trade talks with South Korea but some sticky issues are still unresolved, the chief EU negotiator said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Mexico creates special prosecutor post (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:37:41 -0500

AP - Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the U.S. border.

Yahoo! News: World News: Tunisia, Angola through to African Nations Cup quarter-finals (AFP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:23:04 -0500

AFP - The 2004 champions Tunisia and Angola sealed the last two quarter-final places at the African Nations Cup on Thursday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Chaotic rush to board trains in China (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:43:08 -0500

AP - Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers, some hoisting terrified children or baggage over their heads, pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China.

Yahoo! News: World News: Suicide bomber kills Afghan official (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:42:40 -0500

AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other people in another blow to President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government.

Yahoo! News: World News: Japan hangs three death-row inmates (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:35:02 -0500

AP - Japan executed Friday three prisoners on death row, the Justice Ministry announced.

Yahoo! News: World News: US military deaths in Iraq at 3,942 (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:52:00 -0500

AP - As of Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, at least 3,942 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,204 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Opposition lawmaker killed in Kenya (AP)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:32:58 -0500

AP - A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.

Yahoo! News: World News: Biggest corruption trial in Macau's history concludes (AFP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:49:45 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iran sentences Baha'is to prison (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:46:28 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Winter storm chaos grips China (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:38:49 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:32:34 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Study: Afghanistan could fail as a state (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:03:45 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: UK watchdog criticizes racy Ryanair ad (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:54:02 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:43:51 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Absence of Nigerian judge stalls Pfizer drug case: lawyer (AFP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:40:28 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Aid agencies taking donations for Haiti (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:12:48 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush ignores Afghan school violence (AP)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:29:44 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: 'Sports trivia' may go from Australia citizenship test: minister (AFP)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:06:55 -0500

AFP - Australia will review its citizenship test only six months after its introduction, in part because of its emphasis on past sporting heroes, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Hamas polices Gaza border with Egypt (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:18:06 -0500

AP - A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.

Yahoo! News: World News: Prince Charles will not attend Olympic games: Tibet rights group (AFP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:15:02 -0500

AFP - Prince Charles will not be attending the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, he told a group that campaigns against human rights abuses in Tibet in a letter disclosed Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Blair wants Mideast peace in 2008 (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:08:11 -0500

AP - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the final session of the World Economic Forum on Sunday that he wants an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and a pact on climate change by the end of 2008.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:46:34 -0500

AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.

Yahoo! News: World News: US military deaths in Iraq at 3,934 (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:30:11 -0500

AP - As of Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, at least 3,934 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,200 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Protests in Lebanon leave 7 dead (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:15:32 -0500

AP - Protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with Lebanese troops Sunday in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving seven people dead, hospital and security officials said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Survivors detail Suharto-era massacres (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:02:34 -0500

AP - Hiding out in the dense, humid jungle, Markus Talam watched Indonesian soldiers herd manacled prisoners from trucks, line them up and mow them down with round after round of automatic weapons fire.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iraqi army reinforcements reach Mosul (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:28:59 -0500

AP - Iraqi soldiers reached the northern city of Mosul on Sunday for an operation against al-Qaida in Iraq, days after some 40 people were killed in a house explosion followed by a suicide attack against a senior police official.

Yahoo! News: World News: Region faces 'doom and gloom' if Taliban prevail: Karzai (AFP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:24:39 -0500

AFP - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country along with Pakistan faces "gloom and doom" from Taliban insurgents, and called for the world to "join hands" to defeat the Islamist rebels.

Yahoo! News: World News: Brazil carnival star eyes surgery record (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:18:15 -0500

AP - Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship.

Yahoo! News: World News: Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto dies (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:08:57 -0500

AP - Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:58:00 -0500

Yahoo! News: World News: Merkel's party suffers heavy losses in key state election: exit polls (AFP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:45:37 -0500

AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party lost a key state election Sunday after a bitterly divisive campaign dominated by crime and immigration, exit polls indicated.

Yahoo! News: World News: Women lose in Mexico Indian rights gain (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:35:46 -0500

AP - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house.

Yahoo! News: World News: Mozambique to forcibly evacuate 10,000 from floods (Reuters)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:19:46 -0500

Reuters - Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters.

Yahoo! News: World News: French bank accuses trader of hacking (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:07:49 -0500

AP - Societe Generale said Sunday that a trader who evaded all its controls to bet $73.5 billion more than the French bank's market worth on European markets hacked computers and "combined several fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions in losses.

Yahoo! News: World News: Shark bites man on deck off Australia (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:22:59 -0500

AP - A 200-pound mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the man reeled it in while fishing off Australia's east coast Sunday, an official said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt tries to control Gaza border chaos (AP)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:06:23 -0500

AP - Egyptian forces brandishing electrified batons stopped Gaza cars from crossing the breached border Sunday and tightened security at checkpoints to try to confine Palestinians who moved freely into Egypt for a fifth straight day.

Yahoo! News: World News: EU to launch Chad peacekeeping force Monday: diplomats (AFP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:30:24 -0500

AFP - The European Union will on Monday launch a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, diplomats and officials said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Musharraf vows free elections during visit to Britain (AFP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:24:22 -0500

AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday challenged anyone to prove how February 18 parliamentary elections could be rigged and vowed they would be held on time.

Yahoo! News: World News: Killer expelled from Swedish med school (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:15:08 -0500

AP - A medical student convicted in a 1999 murder with neo-Nazi links has been expelled from Sweden's leading medical school in a case that sparked debate over whether a killer can become a doctor after having paid his debt to society.

Yahoo! News: World News: Musharraf champions rights, but only with limits (Reuters)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:07:46 -0500

Reuters - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cast himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on Friday -- then turned on a journalist who questioned him and said rights should have limits.

Yahoo! News: World News: With Federer gone, 2 new guys in final (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:56:54 -0500

AP - One Australian Open finalist is a Muhammad Ali lookalike who has dazzled the crowds with his enthusiasm and his ability to change the pace of a match.

Yahoo! News: World News: Marriages fall victim to Kenya violence (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:12:52 -0500

AP - He doesn't call. He doesn't write. His cell phone has been switched off for weeks. After 17 years, Naomi Kering's husband is gone one more intertribal marriage fallen victim to the violence that has followed Kenya's disastrous presidential election.

Yahoo! News: World News: Spanish driver who killed teen sues (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:10:42 -0500

AP - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt takes steps to close Gaza border (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:59:12 -0500

AP - Thousands of Palestinians pushed their way into Egypt past human chains of guards with riot shields after a bulldozer wrecked another section of fence along the Egypt-Gaza border.

Yahoo! News: World News: Plea in Venezuela cash suitcase scheme (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:55:51 -0500

AP - A Venezuelan man pleaded guilty Friday in a scheme to cover up the source of $800,000 seized in a suitcase in Argentina that was allegedly sent by Venezuelans as a donation to Cristina Fernandez's presidential campaign.

Yahoo! News: World News: Last German WWI veteran dies at 107 (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:55:01 -0500

AP - It was an American, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who famously reflected that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

Yahoo! News: World News: Bad weather ends Bangladesh Islamic meet (AFP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:50:04 -0500

AFP - Two million people scrambled to leave a huge Muslim congregation near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka late Friday after bad weather forced its premature end, police said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Beirut bomb kills anti-terror officer (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:02:05 -0500

AP - A car bomb Friday killed one of Lebanon's top terrorism investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent anti-Syrian figures and a series of other attacks in recent years.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iraq announces major offensive in Mosul (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:58:55 -0500

AP - Shaken by two days of deadly bombings, the government said Friday it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Mosul in a "decisive" bid to drive al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major stronghold.

Yahoo! News: World News: Italy president to decide on early vote (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:53:48 -0500

AP - Discussions Friday between the Italian president and political leaders could determine if the country will face early elections or an interim government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi.

Yahoo! News: World News: Zimbabwe sets March 29 vote, opposition cries foul (Reuters)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:27 -0500

Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday general elections would be held on March 29 and the opposition said the date was a blow to mediation efforts to end the country's economic and political turmoil.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gates gives Forum optimism (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:29:08 -0500

AP - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced Friday at the World Economic Forum that his foundation would give $306 million to use green technology and farming techniques to boost millions out of hunger and poverty.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt cheers films critical of police (AP)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:43:39 -0500

AP - One of Egypt's latest hit films opens with scenes of police brutally beating pro-democracy protesters and ends with angry masses storming a police station where demonstrators are tortured. The audiences cheer.

Yahoo! News: World News: NZ: Japan whalers heading for its waters (AP)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:41:30 -0500

AP - Japan's whaling fleet was heading toward New Zealand-controlled waters in Antarctica, in breach of an agreement that it would remain in Australian waters during this year's whale hunt, a minister said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israel eases Gaza blockade for a day (AP)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:50:33 -0500

AP - Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the U.N. warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.

Yahoo! News: World News: French employers' group chief hails 'revolutionary' deal (AFP)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:37:09 -0500

AFP - A deal struck last week on labour market reform between French employers and trade unions was "revolutionary", the head of the country's MEDEF employers' group said in an interview published Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australian state compensates 'stolen' Aborigines: official (AFP)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:41:59 -0500

AFP - An Australian state Tuesday approved millions of dollars in compensation for members of the "stolen generation" of Aborigines just weeks after the federal government rejected similar demands.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kalou inspires Ivory Coast as Michel's Lions maul Namibia at African Nations football Cup (AFP)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:19:55 -0500

AFP - Ivory Coast lived up to their billing as serious title contenders with victory in Monday's crunch African Nations Cup game against fellow regional giants Nigeria.

Yahoo! News: World News: US helping Pakistan tackle extremism 'in its own way': envoy (AFP)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:09:16 -0500

AFP - The United States is working to help Pakistan deal with extremism "in its own way," a top US diplomat for the region said here.

Yahoo! News: World News: England rugby hopeful Cipriani on a steep learning curve (AFP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:38:33 -0500

AFP - England hopeful Danny Cipriani admits he is on a steep learning curve as he tries to oust Jonny Wilkinson from the number ten jersey for the Six Nations opener against Wales on February 2.

Yahoo! News: World News: France says new Iran resolution imminent (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:08:05 -0500

AP - The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said. But a U.S. official said differences over the issue remain.

Yahoo! News: World News: Support for new Australian PM grows: survey (AFP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:41:18 -0500

AFP - The popularity of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has grown since the Labor leader's election late last year, according to a new poll published Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Paraguay nominates first woman candidate (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:33:55 -0500

AP - Paraguay's ruling party nominated a woman as its presidential candidate on Monday, a first for the South American nation, but the candidacy of Education Minister Blanca Ovelar still faces a court challenge.

Yahoo! News: World News: New Zealand says farewell to Hillary (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:07:29 -0500

AP - Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.

Yahoo! News: World News: UN envoy applauds cut in Iraq violence (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:37:41 -0500

AP - The top U.N. envoy in Iraq on Monday welcomed recent improvements in security and tentative steps towards national reconciliation, urging all parties to maintain the positive momentum.

Yahoo! News: World News: Congo government, rebels in peace accord (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:26:35 -0500

AP - Government negotiators and rebel groups reached a deal to end fighting in the vast country's restive east, where some 800,000 people had to flee their homes over the last year, officials said Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Probe: Iraqi teen bomber sent by family (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:18:29 -0500

AP - His father was a senior member of al-Qaida in Iraq. His mother promised him they would meet again in paradise.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israel to ease Gaza blockade for a day (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:47:06 -0500

AP - Israel said Monday it will ease a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing some food and fuel in for one day. The announcement followed a U.N. warning that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.

Yahoo! News: World News: Chinese insurer Ping An to raise $22B (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:25:00 -0500

AP - A major Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to $22 billion (euro15.0 billion) for acquisitions at a time when U.S. and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish their balance sheets.

Yahoo! News: World News: British PM calls for radical world reforms to reflect rise of Asia (AFP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:16:43 -0500

AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Monday for the radical reform of world institutions to help meet the new challenges of the 21st century, and take more account of the rise of Asia.

Yahoo! News: World News: British soldier killed in Afghan blast (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:03:58 -0500

AP - An explosion struck a NATO patrol vehicle outside a former Taliban town in southern Afghanistan, killing one British soldier and wounding five others, officials said Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: 3-way standoff fuels Mideast violence (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:00:05 -0500

AP - Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenyans hacked to death with machetes (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:14:35 -0500

AP - Several people were beaten and hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum Sunday in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya's disputed election, residents said.

Yahoo! News: World News: US: Armor-piercing bomb attacks down (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:09:51 -0500

AP - A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq.

Yahoo! News: World News: Liberian ex-rebel confesses to killings (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:31:24 -0500

AP - One of Liberia's most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked, has returned to the nation his troops terrorized to confess, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths.

Yahoo! News: World News: Daughter of Scottish dynasty on sex charge in Australia (AFP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:58:43 -0500

AFP - A young woman descended from a Scottish dynasty granted the Cocos Islands by Britain's Queen Victoria went on trial in Australia Monday charged with sexually assaulting her soldier lover.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bomb destroys car in Beirut (AP)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:25:23 -0500

AP - A grenade explosion set ablaze a parked car belonging to the wife of Lebanon's assistant military prosecutor and damaged several other vehicles in Beirut early Monday but caused no injuries, police said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Castro on ballot in Cuba parliament vote (AP)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:16 -0500

AP - Cubans ratified a slate of parliamentary candidates on Sunday including Fidel Castro, the ailing 81-year-old leader who has not been seen in public for nearly 18 months.

Yahoo! News: World News: Pakistani military attacks militants (AP)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:09:36 -0500

AP - The Pakistani military pounded an extremist stronghold Sunday near the Afghan border where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding, officials and witnesses said.

Yahoo! News: World News: UK says Russia harassing its officials (AP)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:44:13 -0500

AP - A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.

Yahoo! News: World News: Stolen Australian boomerang returns home (Reuters)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:24:44 -0500

Reuters - Proving boomerangs really do come back, an Australian town was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an American tourist 25 years ago.

Yahoo! News: World News: Schools crisis entrenches inequality in South Africa (AFP)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:20:11 -0500

AFP - Headmaster Kenneth Mabuza takes a deep breath as he reels off some of the problems facing students at Ibhongo High School, in the heart of South Africa's biggest township Soweto.

Yahoo! News: World News: UN chief lauds reduction in Iraq attacks (AP)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:09:03 -0500

AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the reduction in attacks across Iraq and called for similar improvements in the political arena.

Yahoo! News: World News: Islamic militants overrun Pakistani fort (AP)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:25:45 -0500

AP - In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the Afghan border, leaving at least 22 soldiers dead or missing.

Yahoo! News: World News: Chile congress backs pensions for all (AP)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:23:20 -0500

AP - Chile's congress backed a pension reform bill Wednesday to ensure the country's landmark social security program for the first time covers every citizen.

Yahoo! News: World News: Russia warns Kosovo on independence (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:28:41 -0500

AP - Russia warned Kosovo's leaders Wednesday that if they declare independence the territory will never become a member of the United Nations or other international political institutions.

Yahoo! News: World News: Machines keeping Suharto alive (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:02:36 -0500

AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's care during his two-week hospitalization has sparked quiet debate on end-of-life issues in this predominantly Muslim nation.

Yahoo! News: World News: Hostage letters recount jungle hell (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:16:30 -0500

AP - A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two women freed by Colombian rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and depredation of the hostages they left behind.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenya police chief says protesters shot (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:34 -0500

AP - The police chief in this opposition stronghold said she ordered her officers to fire on a rioting crowd, saying she was forced to because police were overwhelmed during protests over disputed elections.

Yahoo! News: World News: Suicide attack kills 8 in Iraq (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:34:15 -0500

AP - A women wearing a belt strapped with explosives blew herself up near a popular market and a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians and wounding seven others, police said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bird flu cull begins in eastern India (AFP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:31:32 -0500

AFP - Health officials in eastern India began the slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens Wednesday, a day after New Delhi confirmed an outbreak of the deadly avian flu in the region.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israel to evacuate 2 settler outposts (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:24:54 -0500

AP - Israeli forces were on their way Wednesday to evacuate two settler outposts in the West Bank, officials said, amid U.S. insistence such encampments be dismantled to pave the way for a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Yahoo! News: World News: High-seas whaling standoff draws in Tokyo, Canberra (AFP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:16:41 -0500

AFP - A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Opposition figure heads Kenya parliament (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:14:15 -0500

AP - Legislators chose an opposition member as parliament speaker in a close vote Tuesday, giving a victory to foes of Kenya's president as they prepared for mass protest rallies that raised fears of new violence over last month's disputed election.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bus bombing kills 23 in Sri Lanka (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:12:50 -0500

AP - A roadside bomb ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 23 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels.

Yahoo! News: World News: Jesuits to choose new superior (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:08:59 -0500

AP - The Jesuits, one of the world's largest Roman Catholic religious orders, are meeting in Rome to elect a new leader and chart a future amid a decline in their numbers and lingering tensions in their relationship with the Vatican.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt's stalled reforms haunt Bush trip (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:06:45 -0500

AP - Egypt was meant to be a test case for President Bush's push for greater democracy in the Middle East. But stalled reforms and bitterness over the jailing of hundreds of dissidents are haunting his visit here Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Cambodia bars US actress from holding Darfur ceremony: official (AFP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:31:36 -0500

AFP - Actress Mia Farrow has been barred from holding a ceremony at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as part of a campaign to pressure China to end abuses in Darfur, a Cambodian official said Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Castro looks frail, alert in new photos (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:33:40 -0500

AP - Fidel Castro looked frail but alert and even playful in a series of official photographs taken during a meeting with Brazil's president on Tuesday, the first images of the ailing Cuban leader released in about three months.

Yahoo! News: World News: St. Lucia welcomes Taiwan's leader (AP)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:07:57 -0500

AP - Singing schoolchildren and red carpets welcomed Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to St. Lucia on Tuesday for his first visit since the small Caribbean island shifted diplomatic ties to Taipei instead of rival China.

Yahoo! News: World News: Thai soldier beheaded, 7 others killed (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:52:17 -0500

AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents exploded a bomb that left at least 27 people injured in a southern Thai market Tuesday, officials said, a day after rebels ambushed a military patrol and killed eight soldiers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Take That lead Brit award nominations (AFP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:38:28 -0500

AFP - Pop group Take That's comeback hit another high note on Tuesday as they jointly led the nominations for the Brit Awards, the annual music prizes organised by the British Phonographic Industry.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush seeks stronger ties with arms deal (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:00:29 -0500

AP - President Bush delivered a sophisticated weapons sale for Saudi Arabia on Monday, trying to bolster defenses against threats from U.S. adversary Iran and muster support in this oil-rich kingdom for a long-stalled Mideast peace agreement.

Yahoo! News: World News: Attack on Kabul luxury hotel kills 6 (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:22:46 -0500

AP - Militants stormed Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least six people as they hunted down Westerners who cowered in a gym a coordinated assault that could signal a new era of brazen Taliban attacks.

Yahoo! News: World News: Guatemala swears in new president (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:21:57 -0500

AP - Alvaro Colom was sworn on Monday in as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gunmen storm Darfur prison, freeing 90 (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:41:25 -0500

AP - Gunmen stormed a Darfur prison, setting free at least 90 detainees, officials and local media said Monday as sporadic violence continued to erupt throughout the western Sudanese region.

Yahoo! News: World News: Colombian boy's childhood of anguish (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:54:23 -0500

AP - On April 16, 2004, an urbane lawyer being held hostage in a guerrilla camp deep in the Colombian jungle gave birth to a boy. The child was delivered by Caesarean section performed with a kitchen knife.

Yahoo! News: World News: Mideast peace negotiations inch forward (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:17:04 -0500

AP - Palestinian and Israeli negotiators sat down Monday to address their toughest disputes, honoring promises made to President Bush during his visit last week.

Yahoo! News: World News: Saudi public leery of Bush (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:35:26 -0500

AP - Saudi Arabia's warm official welcome for President Bush, the scion of a family with close ties to the kingdom's ruling family, masks his deep unpopularity among ordinary Saudis.

Yahoo! News: World News: Motorbike bomb kills 9 in Pakistani city (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:23:23 -0500

AP - A bomb planted on a parked motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 35 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Andorra first up for Capello's England (AFP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:21:24 -0500

AFP - Fabio Capello's first competitive match as England coach will be at Andorra in September after the fixtures were announced for their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign on Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: British defies order to shut NGO offices (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:54:18 -0500

AP - A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, drawing an angry response from Russia, which called the decision a "deliberate provocation" and promised punitive measures.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sunni judge assassinated in Baghdad (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:38:52 -0500

AP - Gunmen assassinated a Sunni judge as he headed to work in Baghdad on Monday, while to the north, a booby-trapped house exploded as Iraqi police searched the building, killing at least two officers and trapping five beneath the rubble, authorities said.

Yahoo! News: World News: 2 dead in attack on luxury Kabul hotel (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:35:05 -0500

AP - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday evening, killing at least two people in a coordinated assault rarely seen in the Afghan capital, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sudan "bombs" Darfur rebels as violence hampers aid (Reuters)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:28:42 -0500

Reuters - Sudanese government planes bombed rebel positions in Darfur, rebels and international sources said on Monday of the latest violence that has turned parts of West Darfur into a "no go" zone for aid workers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gulf prankster possible message source (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:12:10 -0500

AP - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israel won't accept nuke weapons in Iran (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:52 -0500

AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Apple, China Mobile call off iPhone launch talks (Reuters)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:56:32 -0500

Reuters - Apple Inc and China Mobile (0941.HK) have called off talks to launch the U.S. firm's popular iPhones in China, dashing speculation the device will hit the country's store shelves soon.

Yahoo! News: World News: Tsonga dumps Murray out of Australian Open (AFP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:48:57 -0500

AFP - Britain's great tennis hope Andy Murray became the first major casualty of the Australian Open Monday, crashing out in the first round to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush gets flavor of Dubai (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:33:39 -0500

AP - President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to a major ally in a region where the U.S. casts neighboring Iran as a menace to stability.

Yahoo! News: World News: Activists threaten to ram Japanese whalers (AFP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:27:43 -0500

AFP - The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iraqi appeals court judge killed (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:26:44 -0500

AP - Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, police and the deputy justice minister said.

Yahoo! News: World News: China says democracy hurts Kenya (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:22:22 -0500

AP - The election-related violence that has killed hundreds in Kenya is proof that Western-style democracy is a bad fit for Africa, said China, which has been under fire for its friendly relations with authoritarian leaders on the continent.

Yahoo! News: World News: US envoy meets former Taliban commander (AP)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:08:28 -0500

AP - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan flew to a town previously held by the Taliban in the heart of the world's largest poppy-growing region and told the ex-militant commander now in charge there that Afghans must stop "producing poison."

Yahoo! News: World News: Freed Colombia hostage reunited with son (AP)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:33:47 -0500

AP - Recently released Colombian hostage Clara Rojas was reunited Sunday with her 3-year-old son, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors but taken away from her months after he was born.

Yahoo! News: World News: French offer Saudi nuclear energy help (AP)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:18:23 -0500

AP - France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gallery owner battles for art in Baghdad (AP)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:57:29 -0500

AP - The owner's balance sheet shows losses of up to $400 a month a sum considered a good monthly wage.

Yahoo! News: World News: Web, crackdowns weakening Mafia's grip (AP)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:25:25 -0500

AP - When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear.

Yahoo! News: World News: Croatian parliament approves PM Sanader's cabinet (Reuters)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:16:48 -0500

Reuters - Croatia's new parliament approved on Saturday a centre-right coalition cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Ivo Sanader and dominated by his conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

Yahoo! News: World News: Soldiers find front line at Iraq house (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:14:49 -0500

AP - Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iraq to reinstate Saddam party followers (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:12:44 -0500

AP - Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of U.S.-backed legislation it has adopted.

Yahoo! News: World News: Pakistan expels writer for NY Times (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:21:13 -0500

AP - Pakistan has expelled an American journalist who wrote in The New York Times Magazine about the rise of pro-Taliban militants in this key U.S. ally, a media rights group said Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World News: With nuke rebirth come new worries (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:02:23 -0500

AP - Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gorilla sanctuary is Congo war front (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:19:35 -0500

AP - Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.

Yahoo! News: World News: Opposition wins big in Taiwan poll (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:06:32 -0500

AP - Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China two months before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.

Yahoo! News: World News: Greenpeace says located, chasing Japanese whalers (AFP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:45:09 -0500

AFP - A Greenpeace protest ship located Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and is pursuing it to stop the hunt for the giant sea creatures, the environmental group said Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Greenpeace finds Japan's whalers (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:25:52 -0500

AP - A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.

Yahoo! News: World News: Pentagon releases video of Iran clash (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:19:25 -0500

AP - Recent clashes between Iranian and U.S. Navy forces in the Persian Gulf reflect Iran's shifted military strategy to use its Revolutionary Guard's fast boats more aggressively in the region, the top U.S. military officer said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush visits biblical holy sites (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:54:09 -0500

AP - Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape that all the fighting is about. Obviously moved, he even giggled, too.

Yahoo! News: World News: In Kuwait, Bush turns focus to Iraq war (AP)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:50:52 -0500

AP - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.

Yahoo! News: World News: Suharto suffers multiple organ failure (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:51:11 -0500

AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto showed slight signs of improvement, doctors said Saturday, a day after he suffered organ failure and was placed on a ventilator with dangerous signs of infection in his lungs.

Yahoo! News: World News: Chavez irks Colombia by defending rebels (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:05:15 -0500

AP - Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed after years held captive by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife Caesarean and has not seen him since he was taken from the jungle at 8 months old.

Yahoo! News: World News: Change of command made at Guantanamo (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:05:07 -0500

AP - The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, is leaving for a new assignment after six months at the U.S. naval station in Cuba, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Former suspect's mom wants Aruba probe (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:59:06 -0500

AP - The mother of a former suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of American teenager Natalee Holloway said Friday she hopes a probe will bring closure for all the families involved.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush: US should have acted on Auschwitz (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:05:58 -0500

AP - A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.

Yahoo! News: World News: UN assails Sudan peacekeeper attack (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:52:39 -0500

AP - The United Nations Security Council opened the door Friday to new economic, political or military sanctions against Sudan because of an attack by its troops on a U.N. peacekeeping convoy earlier this week.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenya's violence strikes at its runners (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:48:57 -0500

AP - When world marathon champion Luke Kibet goes running, he likes to focus on finishing first. But on one run during Kenya's postelection upheaval, the 25-year-old star had something else on his mind: staying alive.

Yahoo! News: World News: Chavez presses for more hostage rescues (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:29:16 -0500

AP - Basking in praise for winning the freedom of two hostages, President Hugo Chavez pressured Colombia's U.S.-allied leader to let him try to free more captives and perhaps even search for ways to end his neighbor's decades-long civil conflict.

Yahoo! News: World News: Militant group claims Nigeria tanker blaze (AFP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:28:08 -0500

AFP - A prominent militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker on fire Friday in Nigeria's main oil hub, Port Harcourt.

Yahoo! News: World News: Correction: Queen of Spades review (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:26:57 -0500

AP - In an Oct. 28 review of the Vienna State Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," The Associated Press erroneously reported it was Neil Shicoff's first appearance on an opera stage in Austria since the summer, when he canceled performances at the Salzburg Festival. The AP also misspelled the name of set and costume designers Johannes Leiacker and Marie-Luise Strandt.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenya opposition calls 3 days of protest (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:22:15 -0500

AP - Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation. Police said they would not permit the protests.

Yahoo! News: World News: Commanders tout success of Iraq strikes (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:49:26 -0500

AP - One of the largest bombing campaigns of the war destroyed extremists' "defensive belts" south of Baghdad, allowing American soldiers to push into areas where they have not been in years, a top commander said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Indonesia's Suharto has multiple organ failure (Reuters)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:43:56 -0500

Reuters - Indonesia's former president Suharto has suffered multiple organ failure and is on a ventilator, doctors said, while the Vice President had been summoned to his bedside to witness the 86-year-old's death.

Yahoo! News: World News: Suharto suffers multi-organ failure (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:30:50 -0500

AP - Suharto suffered multi-organ failure and was placed on a ventilator Friday, doctors said, as family members rushed to the former Indonesian dictator's bedside. Physicians called his deteriorating health "alarming."

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush visits Kuwait to promote peace deal (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:24:37 -0500

AP - President Bush sought Arab support on Friday for a U.S.-backed Mideast peace deal, but the Bush administration said not to expect a "blinding flash" of Arab support for the restarted Israel-Palestinian negotiations.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush: US should have bombed Auschwitz (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:07:57 -0500

AP - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets with junta (AP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:08:22 -0500

AP - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of Myanmar's ruling junta Friday for the first time in nearly two months, a government official said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Race-hate fears prompt Australian school security boost: official (AFP)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:42:11 -0500

AFP - Jewish, Muslim and other schools in Australia at risk of race-hate attacks will receive millions of dollars in special funding to improve their security, the government said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iranian TV airs video of Gulf encounter (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:22:00 -0500

AP - Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between the vessels.

Yahoo! News: World News: Drastic decline in one of Britain's rarest breeding ducks (AFP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:13:34 -0500

AFP - One of Britain's rarest birds has seen a drastic decline in its population over the last 12 years, a new survey has shown Thursday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Scout: Islamic militant attacked prez (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:12:16 -0500

AP - The 15-year-old Boy Scout who saved the president of this Indian Ocean archipelago from a knife-wielding attacker said Thursday the assailant shouted "God is Great" before the assault.

Yahoo! News: World News: Former UN chief to lead Kenya mediation (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:02:45 -0500

AP - The African Union said Thursday that former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is taking over mediation in Kenya's disputed presidential election after days of international pressure failed to bring both sides together for talks.

Yahoo! News: World News: Man Utd to tour South Africa (AFP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:00:53 -0500

AFP - Manchester United will tour South Africa in the close season this summer, the club announced on Thursday.

Yahoo! News: World News: US launches airstrike south of Baghdad (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:34:33 -0500

AP - U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what the military called safe havens for al-Qaida in Iraq on the southern outskirts of the capital.

Yahoo! News: World News: 24 killed, 70 hurt in Pakistan bombing (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:24:23 -0500

AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 70, officials and witnesses said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Salad dodgers fight slummy mummies for Aussie dictionary honour (AFP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:53:15 -0500

AFP - A cyberathlete might not suffer boomeritis as he or she is probably a digital native, but could be at risk of globesity, according to Australia's top dictionary.

Yahoo! News: World News: French use happiness as economic measure (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:48:43 -0500

AP - What price happiness? French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking an answer to the eternal question so that happiness can be included in measurements of French economic growth.

Yahoo! News: World News: India's Tata Motors unveils $2,500 car (AP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:45:48 -0500

AP - India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultracheap price tag that suddenly brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people across the world.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush strongly warns Iran on naval clash (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:10:36 -0500

AP - President Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office, and named a U.S. Air Force general to oversee compliance with a U.S.-backed peace plan.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australia questions community after lonely death (Reuters)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:42:36 -0500

Reuters - The death of elderly man in his Sydney apartment, which went undiscovered for more than a year, had Australians questioning their loss of community spirit on Thursday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Colombian rebels detail hostage location (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:36:51 -0500

AP - Colombian rebels on Wednesday provided a pickup location for two women they have held hostage for years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, and the Colombian government gave him the green light to launch a rescue mission.

Yahoo! News: World News: Talks end with Western Sahara stalemate (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:35:34 -0500

AP - The latest round of U.N.-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara.

Yahoo! News: World News: US military deaths in Iraq at 3,921 (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:16:55 -0500

AP - As of Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008, at least 3,921 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,183 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Darfur peacekeeping set back by 6 months (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:00:00 -0500

AP - U.N. peacekeeping forces lack the troops and equipment necessary to improve the situation in violence-wracked Darfur and will continue to be ineffective until mid-2008, the U.N. peacekeeping chief cautioned Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Ex-rebel leader elected Kosovo premier (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:06:29 -0500

AP - A former rebel leader was elected Kosovo's prime minister Wednesday, vowing that the province is only weeks away from independence and calling on Serbia to give up its claim to the territory.

Yahoo! News: World News: 2 nations opt out of UN force for Darfur (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:40:18 -0500

AP - Sweden and Norway have dropped plans to send about 400 troops to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur because of opposition from Sudan's government, a Swedish Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Olmert: No peace unless attacks stop (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:29:26 -0500

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that "there will be no peace" unless attacks are halted from all parts of the Palestinian territories, including those not controlled by his negotiating partners in the Palestinian leadership. But he said that both sides "are very seriously trying to move forward" on a deal.

Yahoo! News: World News: African Union chief meets political leaders in Kenya crisis talks (AFP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:13:17 -0500

AFP - African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenyan leaders Wednesday to try to resolve political deadlock following post-election violence that left 600 dead and displaced a quarter of a million.

Yahoo! News: World News: Pakistan rejects nuclear watchdog's worries (Reuters)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:59:26 -0500

Reuters - Pakistan rejected on Wednesday remarks by the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of Islamist militants, and allayed the fears of a U.S. senator visiting Islamabad.

Yahoo! News: World News: Rockets hit Israel before Bush arrival (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:43:00 -0500

AP - The Israeli military fired at Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing three people, after a rocket hit a house in a battered Israeli border town just as President Bush began his Mideast peace mission.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sudan denies attack on UN in Darfur (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:39:55 -0500

AP - Sudan denied Wednesday that its army opened fire on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers attacked in Darfur barely a week into their new mission.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenyan leader says vote results final (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:29:51 -0500

AP - Hundreds of Kenyans fearing new political violence fled the country's west Wednesday, but the president urged refugees not to abandon their homes and insisted he would hold onto power despite allegations he stole an election.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iranian TV: Pentagon video, audio fake (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:13:18 -0500

AP - Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

Yahoo! News: World News: Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee dead in Cuba (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:04:53 -0500

AP - Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.

Yahoo! News: World News: US: Iraq operation meets less resistance (AP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:46:00 -0500

AP - Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military reported Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australian ship leaves to track Japanese whalers (AFP)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:27:27 -0500

AFP - An Australian government ship has left on a mission to track Japan's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Tokyo, an official said Wednesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Stiglitz says GDP may be poor indicator of economy (AFP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:41:23 -0500

AFP - Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist tapped to head a new French study, said Tuesday he sees gross domestic product (GDP), the most often cited yardstick, as an imperfect indicator.

Yahoo! News: World News: Lovestruck Sarkozy fends off critics (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:27:36 -0500

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy hinted Tuesday he may soon marry former model Carla Bruni, but polls suggest he's heading toward divorce with some of the voters who put him in power.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sudan troops fire on UN convoy in Darfur (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:25:34 -0500

AP - Sudanese troops shot at a "clearly marked" United Nations convoy in Darfur, apparently mistaking it for a group of rebels in the first attack against the peacekeeping mission since it began this month, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: US analyzing recordings of Iranians (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:14:39 -0500

AP - The U.S. military has video and audio recordings of Iranian boats that threatened to blow up U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and plans to release them, the top Navy commander in the Mideast said Tuesday. President Bush described the confrontation as a "provocative act."

Yahoo! News: World News: Turkey's Kurds angry after blast (Reuters)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:36:13 -0500

Reuters - Clearing debris from a bombing, residents of the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast say they are weary of the violence blighting their region and that more democracy and economic growth are the only answers.

Yahoo! News: World News: Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:49:53 -0500

AP - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.

Yahoo! News: World News: Obama family in Kenya watches US vote (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:41:01 -0500

AP - At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and drying corn kernels, listening to radio reports from New Hampshire.

Yahoo! News: World News: Rivals make concessions in Kenya (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:38:36 -0500

AP - Kenya's president named half his Cabinet Tuesday, angering opposition leaders who accuse him of stealing the recent election and undermining mediation attempts for a power-sharing agreement to end violence that has left more than 500 dead.

Yahoo! News: World News: Maldives leader survives attack (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:33:30 -0500

AP - The Maldives president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, survived an assassination attempt Tuesday when a teenage boy grabbed the knife of an attacker who jumped out of a crowd of people greeting the president, a government spokesman said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Imperial Tobacco extends offer for Altadis (AFP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:33:18 -0500

AFP - Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday it had handed shareholders in Franco-Spanish cigarette maker Altadis an extra week to accept its takeover bid worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars).

Yahoo! News: World News: SAfrica's ANC confirms Zuma as candidate (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:18:30 -0500

AP - The ruling African National Congress said Tuesday that party president Jacob Zuma would be its candidate for national elections in 2009 despite his pending trial on charges of corruption, money laundering, fraud and racketeering.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sony BMG drops music copy protection (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:26:43 -0500

AP - Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bomb kills Sri Lankan minister (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:13:17 -0500

AP - A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. Seven other people were wounded.

Yahoo! News: World News: Indian prosthetic inventor dies at 80 (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:57:03 -0500

AP - Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80.

Yahoo! News: World News: Police: Rocket from Lebanon hits Israel (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:48:51 -0500

AP - A rocket fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel overnight, police said Tuesday. It was the second rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon since the summer 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas.

Yahoo! News: World News: Afghan bomb kills coalition 2 soldiers (AP)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:29:32 -0500

AP - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, and a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.

Yahoo! News: World News: Taiwan says can't match China's aid offer to Malawi (Reuters)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:31:07 -0500

Reuters - Taiwan cannot match China's reported $6 billion aid offer to Malawi, but hopes a legacy of goodwill can convince the African nation not to switch allegiance to its giant neighbor, a government spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Japan new-borns visit relatives as cuddly rice bags (Reuters)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:49:14 -0500

Reuters - New-born babies in Japan who can't make it round to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead - cuddly bags of rice.

Yahoo! News: World News: Colombia rejects more hostage missions (AP)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:26:59 -0500

AP - The government will not permit future international missions to win the release of rebel-held hostages after an effort led by Venezuela last month failed to retrieve three captives, Colombia's foreign minister said Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Baghdad bombings kill al-Qaida opponent (AP)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:48:59 -0500

AP - The U.S. military launched a countrywide offensive Tuesday against al-Qaida in Iraq's efforts to regroup and intensify suicide strikes on civilians who have sided with the Americans against the terror group.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kenyan rivals make concessions (AP)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:02:04 -0500

AP - Kenya's president and his chief rival made key concessions Monday to end their election dispute, calling off protests and agreeing to talks under pressure from the United States as the death toll from a week of violence neared 500.

Yahoo! News: World News: War crimes trial opens with grisly video (AP)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:10:35 -0500

AP - The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.

Yahoo! News: World News: Thousands stranded by Australian floods: officials (AFP)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:32:56 -0500

AFP - Thousands of Australians are stranded by floodwaters and some could remain isolated for up to a week after torrential rains hit the country's east coast, emergency officials said Monday.