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Chilean town giving free Viagra to senior citizens (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:13pm EDT
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AP - A working class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because "an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life." -
Israel: Soldiers didn't know they were firing at journalist (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist. -
What's a Roman earn? Find out on the Internet (Reuters)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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Reuters - Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. -
7 killed during raid on militant hideout in Afghan capital (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:04pm EDT
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AP - Hundreds of intelligence agents on Wednesday raided the hideout of militants with suspected links to an attack on President Hamid Karzai, as the Afghan capital was sucked deeper into the war against the Taliban.
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China launches investigation into claims of child slavery (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:49pm EDT
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AP - China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most between the ages of 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers, state media said Wednesday.
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Pakistan's leaders extend talks on reinstating ousted judges (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:48pm EDT
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AP - Pakistan's new leaders failed to meet their Wednesday deadline to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, but said they would keep trying to resolve a dispute that is threatening their month-old coalition government.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader on track for victory (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:39pm EDT
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AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader was on track to win the first round of a presidential election against the incumbent Robert Mugabe, sources told AFP on Wednesday, more than four weeks after voting day.
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Official: DNA tests confirm IDs of Russian czar's children (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 11:58am EDT
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AP - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday.
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Olympic torch arrives in Hong Kong after activists deported (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:59am EDT
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AP - The Olympic torch arrived in Hong Kong Wednesday after the Chinese territory deported at least seven activists who planned to protest the flame.
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BG Group offer 12 billion dollars for Australian energy firm (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:59am EDT
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AFP - Australia's second-largest energy retailer, Origin Energy Ltd, said Wednesday it had received a 12.9 billion dollar (12.05 billion US) takeover proposal from BG Group.
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Forty years on, Nigeria's Biafra war still touchy subject (AFP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:56am EDT
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AFP - Forty years on, the Nigerian civil war remains a subject so potentially divisive in what is already a fragile federation that even schoolbooks go out of their way to skim over the issue.
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Official: Explosion near Italian embassy in Yemen (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:30am EDT
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AP - A security official says an explosion went off near the Italian embassy in Yemen's capital. No injuries were reported. -
Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:01am EDT
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AP - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.
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Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:58am EDT
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AP - Police are looking into possible links between a young woman's killing and the man who confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday.
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Australia to cut gay discrimination (AP)
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 12:21am EDT
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AP - Australia's new government won praise Wednesday for its plan to eliminate discrimination against gay couples in more than 100 laws, but even those applauding said it should go further and approve same sex marriages. -
Mexican lawmakers decriminalize migrants (AP)
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:42pm EDT
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AP - Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico's Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country. -
Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City (AP)
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:13pm EDT
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AP - The killings of five U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 49, making it the deadliest month since September.
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Turkey's parliament softens law restricting free speech (AP)
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:02pm EDT
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AP - Turkey's parliament approved a government-backed proposal Wednesday to soften a law restricting free speech that has been used to prosecute intellectuals and dissidents.
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Nearly 200 Zimbabwe opposition supporters released (AP)
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 7:15pm EDT
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AP - Police on Tuesday released nearly 200 people who were arrested last week in a raid at opposition headquarters, while President Bush called on Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up the pressure on longtime leader Robert Mugabe.
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Assad says facility Israel bombed not nuclear: paper (Reuters)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:52am EDT
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Reuters - The Syrian site Israel bombed in
September was not part of a nuclear weapons program, but was a
military facility under construction, President Bashar al-Assad
said in remarks published on Sunday.
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Owner, manager held as Morocco fire death toll rises (AFP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:52am EDT
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AFP - The owner and manager of a mattress factory gutted by fire have been taken into custody, an official said Sunday, as the death toll was revised upwards to at least 55.
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Afghan president safe after fleeing gunfire at Kabul event (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:48am EDT
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AP - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president on Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover.
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Zimbabwe opposition retains parliament control after recount (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:27am EDT
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AP - A recount of disputed legislative seats has confirmed opposition control of parliament and should be complete Monday, allowing the release of results from last month's presidential election, state media reported.
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Iraqi leaders discuss unity govt; 5 die in Baghdad violence (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:27am EDT
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AP - Iraq's prime minister met Sunday with the Sunni Arab vice president to discuss reintegrating Sunni political parties into the Shiite-dominated government as police said five people died in violence in Baghdad.
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HBOS may launch rights issue (AFP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 9:17am EDT
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AFP - The board of HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, will meet Monday to discuss a possible multi-billion pound rights issue due to the international credit crunch, media reported Sunday.
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Korean tries to set himself on fire during Seoul torch run (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 8:40am EDT
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AP - A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire to halt the Olympic torch relay through Seoul, while thousands of police guarded the flame Sunday from protesters blasting China's treatment of North Korean refugees.
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Massive gunbattles break out in Tijuana; 13 dead, 9 wounded (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 8:11am EDT
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AP - Massive gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine.
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East Timor rebel leader preparing to surrender: U.N. (Reuters)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 7:16am EDT
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Reuters - The leader of a group of East Timor rebels
accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta in
February is preparing to surrender and may give himself up
early this week, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Sunday.
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Casablanca mattress factory fire kills as many as 55 workers (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 6:15am EDT
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AP - A fire roared through a mattress factory in a poor section of Casablanca Saturday, killing up to 55 workers and injuring as many as 24 others, Moroccan officials said.
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World Bank: Israeli blockade stalls Palestinian economy (AP)
Posted: April 27th, 2008, 4:31am EDT
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AP - The Palestinian economy won't grow this year, largely due to Israeli restrictions on movement and despite billions of dollars in aid meant to shore up support for peace talks, the World Bank predicted Sunday.
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Dalai Lama seeks 'serious' talks on homeland's future (AFP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 9:20am EDT
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AFP - Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has been pushing for talks with China on the future of his homeland for years but now is making clear they must be "serious discussions."
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Defending champion Higgins crashes out (AFP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 9:14am EDT
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AFP - John Higgins' defence of his World Snooker crown ended in bitter recriminations after a 13-9 second round defeat at the hands of Welshman Ryan Day on Saturday.
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Dalai Lama says he's ready for serious talks with China (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 8:41am EDT
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AP - The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.
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Thousands attend Easter ritual at holy shrine in Jerusalem (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 7:40am EDT
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AP - Thousands of worshippers crowded Christianity's holiest shrine to celebrate the Easter Week holy fire ritual, police said.
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Official: 14-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza clash (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 7:32am EDT
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AP - Israeli forces entered a northern Gaza town early Saturday and seized a local Hamas leader from his home amid heavy fighting with Palestinian gunmen, Hamas militants and a Palestinian health official said. The wanted man's 14-year-old daughter was killed in the clashes.
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200 Australian troops to quit East Timor (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 7:30am EDT
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AP - Australia will withdraw 200 troops from nearby East Timor because security in the restive nation has improved since rebel soldiers wounded the president, Australia's prime minister said Saturday.
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Military: Turkish planes, artillery bomb Kurdish rebels (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 6:26am EDT
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AP - Turkish warplanes and artillery units struck Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq who were preparing to cross the border to carry out attacks, the military said Saturday.
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Report: Brazil police kill 11 in raid (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 3:41am EDT
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AP - Police swarmed a Rio de Janeiro slum in search of a drug lord on Friday, touching off a shootout that killed 11 people including a 70-year-old woman, Brazil's government news agency said. Two bystanders were wounded. -
Police say bomb kills 2 officers in central Afghanistan (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 2:42am EDT
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AP - A police official says a roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle, killing at least two officers in central Afghanistan.
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Zimbabwe police raid opposition, election offices (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 2:19am EDT
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AP - Zimbabwe's electoral commission said Saturday that a recount of votes for 10 parliamentary seats confirmed the original results, including opposition victories, making it unlikely that the ruling party can wrest control of parliament.
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Iraq militia leader: `open war' threat only against US (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 2:18am EDT
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AP - The U.S. military reported a relative lull in fighting Saturday, a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said his threat of an "open war" applied only to American-led foreign troops.
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Heavy security surrounds Olympic torch relay in Japan (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 2:05am EDT
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AP - Olympic torch bearers dashed past sporadic protests Saturday as heavy security marked the Japanese leg of the world relay — streets lined by thousands of riot police and closely monitored by helicopters overhead.
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Official: Colombia to arrest ex-lawmaker (AP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 1:55am EDT
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AP - Colombia's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of an ex-congresswoman who says she reversed her position on a vote years ago in return for political favors from associates of President Alvaro Uribe, a government official said. -
Trio bitten by rabid puppy quarantined in Britain (AFP)
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:59am EDT
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AFP - Three people were bitten by a rabies-infected puppy dog in British quarantine, a Health Protection Agency (HPA) spokeswoman said Saturday.
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1 Palestinian killed in clashes with Israeli troops in Gaza (AP)
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 11:54pm EDT
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AP - Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen are exchanging heavy fire in northern Gaza. Medics say one Palestinian has been killed. -
Top terror suspect meets lawyer at Gitmo (AP)
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 9:48pm EDT
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AP - A defense attorney met with suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the first time at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon-appointed lawyer said he could not reveal details because of "unnecessarily broad" military restrictions. -
Mugabe's ZANU-PF struggles in partial vote recount (Reuters)
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
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Reuters - President Robert Mugabe's party has
failed to secure control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial
recount of the March 29 election, results showed on Saturday,
handing the ruling party its first defeat in 28 years.
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UN chief urges less fighting and more talk in Iraq (AP)
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 8:29pm EDT
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AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged key players in Iraq on Friday to keep violence down and to put aside party, ethnic and sectarian interests so a real political dialogue and national reconciliation can take place.
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Australian court orders rethink of Aboriginal rights to city (AFP)
Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 7:12am EDT
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AFP - Australia's Federal Court on Wednesday upheld a government appeal against the granting to Aborigines of native title over one of the country's major cities, Perth.
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Pirates attack Japanese tanker, Spanish boat in Gulf of Aden (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
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AP - Pirates in the lawless Gulf of Aden fired on a Japanese oil tanker Monday, unleashing hundreds of gallons of fuel into the sea, a day after a Spanish tuna boat was hijacked using rocket-propelled grenades. -
Paraguay winner means more leftist leaders in Latin America (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
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AP - The victory of the "bishop of the poor" in Paraguay's presidential election expands a wave of leftist leadership across Latin America and further isolates the few remaining conservative governments.
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Paris makes Dalai Lama a "citizen of honor" (Reuters)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:59pm EDT
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Reuters - Paris city hall made Tibetan spiritual
leader the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen on Monday,
exacerbating tensions between France and China in the build up
to the Beijing Olympics.
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Pakistan frees pro-Taliban leader, makes peace with group (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:58pm EDT
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AP - Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by the new government to talk peace with Islamic militants and break with President Pervez Musharraf's policy of using force.
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Attorney, military say 'Chemical Ali' hospitalized (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
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AP - An attorney says a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali" has been hospitalized after going on a hunger strike. -
Cholera outbreak infects over 100 students in northern Nigeria (AFP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
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AFP - At least 116 female students in northern Nigeria have been hospitalized with cholera after consuming contaminated beans, a health official said Monday.
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Cuban police break up women's sit-in for release of husbands (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - Police broke up a peaceful sit-in by a small group of women demanding the release of their jailed husbands Monday, forcing them aboard a bus at a park near the offices of Cuban President Raul Castro and driving them home. -
Bodies of 20 Haitians are recovered from sea near Bahamas (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:01pm EDT
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AP - Haitians fleeing their impoverished homeland met tragedy when their boat went down off the Bahamas, killing at least 20 people and leaving only three known survivors, including an alleged migrant smuggler, authorities said Monday. -
Carter: Hamas is willing to accept Israel as its neighbor (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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AP - Former President Carter said Monday that Hamas — the Islamic militant group that has called for the destruction of Israel — is prepared to accept the right of the Jewish state to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."
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UN move expands Australia's territory: minister (AFP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 11:19am EDT
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AFP - Australia's territory has expanded by an area five times the size of France after the UN agreed to its jurisdiction over a massive amount of seabed, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said Monday.
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Iraqi PM urges Arab states to open embassies in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 10:13am EDT
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AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday urged other Arab countries to reopen their embassies in the capital as a show of support for his government as it cracks down on Shiite militias in Iraq.
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Regional leaders not about to change tack on Zimbabwe: analysts (AFP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:39am EDT
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AFP - Southern African leaders, under fire over their softly-softly approach towards Zimbabwe's post-election crisis, are unlikely to abandon their kid gloves any time soon, according to analysts.
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Nepal authorizes deadly force to stop Olympic torch protests (AP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:38am EDT
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AP - Nepalese soldiers and police guarding the slopes of Mount Everest are authorized to shoot to stop any protests during China's Olympic torch run to the summit, an official said Sunday.
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Malaysia calls for Olympics not to be politicised (AFP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:25am EDT
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AFP - Malaysia Sunday called for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games not to be politicised as the torch arrived here Sunday amid tight security after trouble flared at other stops on its global journey.
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BASF presses officials to approve its GM potato (AFP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:22am EDT
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AFP - German chemical giant BASF is cranking up pressure on the European Commission to get its green light for a genetically modified potato, a world first the company has decided deserves a few pages of advertising.
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Australian republic 'inevitable,' says FM (AFP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:09am EDT
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AFP - Australia's split from the British monarchy is "inevitable" but is not an urgent priority for the government, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.
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Anti-US cleric al-Sadr threatens new uprising in Iraq (AP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 12:39am EDT
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AP - Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a "final warning" to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare "open war until liberation."
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Secretary Rice says Arabs should boost support for Iraq (AP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 12:30am EDT
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AP - Iraq's Arab neighbors have few remaining excuses for withholding diplomatic and economic support for the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad, now that daily life in Iraq is less deadly and the government has demonstrated resolve against militias and outliers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
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Rights group: Israel must investigate cameraman's death (AP)
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 12:02am EDT
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AP - Israel must investigate the death of a television cameraman and three others who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, a leading human rights group said Saturday.
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Argentine leader vows penalty for fires (AP)
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 11:49pm EDT
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AP - President Cristina Fernandez surveyed more than 200 raging brush fires by air, vowing to prosecute anyone who lit the blazes that have sent smoke billowing across the capital, clouding highways and grounding jetliners.
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Hamas suicide bombers attack Israel-Gaza crossing; 13 hurt (AP)
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 4:15pm EDT
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AP - Hamas bombers attacked an Israeli-Gaza border crossing under the cover of fog Saturday, detonating two jeeps made to look like Israeli military vehicles and packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives.
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Israel at 60: A vibrant nation still in search of itself (AP)
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 12:47pm EDT
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AP - The story of Israel at 60 is the tale of a little town named Sderot whose children play indoors because of Palestinian rockets, of a world-class tech industry that pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging, of a nation filled with pride and fierce patriotism, yet living in fear of annihilation from abroad and of a demographic time bomb at home.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 4,037 (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 7:08pm EDT
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AP - As of Friday, April 18, 2008, at least 4,037 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 3,295 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
US military deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan at least 423 (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:32pm EDT
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AP - As of Friday, April 18, 2008, at least 423 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures April 12 at 10 a.m. EDT.
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Bank of England to pump 100 bln dlrs into banking system: BBC (AFP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:27pm EDT
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AFP - The central bank is to pump an extra 50 billion pounds (63.4 billion euros, 99.9 billion dollars) into the banking system as early as the end of next week, BBC television said Friday.
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Zimbabwe election battle turns to partial recount (Reuters)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:09pm EDT
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Reuters - Zimbabwean election officials are
expected on Saturday to begin a partial recount of votes from
the March 29 elections despite opposition protests and
widespread fears political stalemate could erupt in violence.
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UN food chief faults wealthly nations on grain supply (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:02pm EDT
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AP - Wealthy nations have been unwilling to help poor countries with the cash, seeds and investment in infrastructure needed to boost grain supply worldwide, the head of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday. -
Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT
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AP - Former President Carter defied U.S. and Israeli warnings and met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and his deputy, two men the U.S. government has labeled terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians.
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Son of Dutch defense chief is killed in Afghanistan (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 4:34pm EDT
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AP - The son of the Dutch defense chief was killed Friday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, and the Taliban claimed they deliberately made the young lieutenant a high-profile target.
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The new side of Russia's Vladimir Putin: a lady's man? (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
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AP - Perhaps it was the setting — one of Italy's most romantic resorts. Or the company — standing next to Italy's famously flirtatious premier.
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Basra's `dark ages' lifting as hard-line grip weakens (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 2:57pm EDT
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AP - CD shops sell love songs again. Some women emerge from their homes without veils, and alcohol sellers are coming out of hiding in the southern city of Basra — where religious vigilantes have long enforced strict Islamic codes.
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Mugabe blames Zimbabwe's troubles on Britain, whites, foes (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 2:28pm EDT
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AP - President Robert Mugabe devoted his first major speech since the unresolved election three weeks ago to denouncing whites and former colonial ruler Britain, an attempt to convince Zimbabweans their political and economic troubles stem from abroad.
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Australia summit to tackle ideas about nation's future (AP)
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
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AP - Tackling discrimination against Aborigines, easing the burden on the drought-stricken south and combatting obesity are just few of the topics on the agenda for a weekend summit on Australia's future.
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Journalist group: concerns remain over reporters in China (AP)
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 2:43am EDT
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AP - A journalism rights group said Wednesday it is concerned for the safety of reporters in the run-up to this summer's Olympics after accounts of threats against them. -
Rebels deny planning to assassinate ETimor leaders (AFP)
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 2:13am EDT
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AFP - Rebel East Timor soldiers denied trying to assassinate the country's top leaders in February and insisted they were fired upon first, in interviews with Australian television to be aired Wednesday.
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Hamas says 4 gunmen killed in clashes with Israeli troops (AP)
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 1:58am EDT
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AP - Intense fighting in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday left four Hamas gunmen dead, Hamas said.
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Japan rejects British fund's investment (AP)
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 1:58am EDT
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AP - Japan is rejecting a proposal from Britain's The Children's Investment Fund to raise its stake in a major electricity company, citing risks to public order, government officials said Wednesday. -
Brazil soldiers hand out food in Haiti (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 11:05pm EDT
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AP - After days of violent protests, Brazilian soldiers took advantage of a calm Tuesday to hand out food in a Haitian slum. But some recipients said the gifts would not sustain their families for long.
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Plane veers off runway in Congo, bursts into flames (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 11:01pm EDT
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AP - A Congolese jetliner carrying 79 passengers and crew crashed on takeoff Tuesday, careening off a runway into a busy neighborhood and bursting into flames. At least 21 people were killed, but most of those aboard survived, an airline official said.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 4,036 (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:57pm EDT
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AP - As of Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at least 4,036 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 3,291 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
Nigerians urged to treat their currency decently (AFP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:29pm EDT
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AFP - In Nigeria, where officials are keen to clean up a reputation for massive corruption, authorities insist that humble citizens show more respect for the country's currency, the naira.
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17 killed as train crashes into bus (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:23pm EDT
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AP - An official says at least 17 people were killed when a train plowed through a packed bus at a railway crossing in central Bangladeseh. -
Bombings kill nearly 60 in Sunni areas of Iraq (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 6:48pm EDT
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AP - Bombings blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas.
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French bill takes aim at those who glamorize the ultra-thin (AP)
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 6:05pm EDT
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AP - In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve — and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too.
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Zimbabwe opposition challenges parliamentary results (Reuters)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 2:30pm EDT
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Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition has challenged
election results for about 60 parliamentary seats won by
President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party, a lawyer for
the Movement for Democratic Change said on Monday.
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UK official: Terror threat growing (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 2:29pm EDT
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AP - British anti-terror officials are monitoring 30 terrorism plots and some 2,000 people as the threat against the country continues to grow, Britain's Home Secretary said in a newspaper interview. -
U.S. envoy to see Dalai Lama in Michigan next week (Reuters)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
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Reuters - The United States' special envoy for
Tibet will meet the Dalai Lama next week while the exiled
Tibetan spiritual leader is visiting the United States, U.S.
officials said on Monday.
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Maoists set to play major role in Nepal (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 2:07pm EDT
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AP - Two years after coming out of the bush, Nepal's Maoists are marching across the Himalayan kingdom — just not in the way many thought they would.
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Mexico opposition barricades Congress (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 1:57pm EDT
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AP - Leftist lawmakers erected makeshift barricades Monday around the podium in Mexico's lower house of Congress, where they have been camped out for more than five days to protest the president's oil reform proposal. -
British journalist rescued in Basra (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 1:41pm EDT
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AP - Iraqi troops rescued a British journalist for CBS News in the southern city of Basra on Monday two months after he was kidnapped, the Iraqi military said.
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US, Iraq far apart on security pacts (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 1:21pm EDT
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AP - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are far apart over key issues in talks to replace the U.N. mandate that governs American military operations in this country, Iraqi officials said Monday. -
Beijing to close factories for Olympics (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 12:51pm EDT
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AP - Beijing will implement a series of temporary measures to stop construction and close heavy industries, all aimed at cleaning the city's notoriously polluted air when the Olympics begin in four months. -
Olympic torch travels to Oman (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 12:21pm EDT
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AP - The Olympic torch made its way through the steep streets of the Omani capital Monday on the brief Middle Eastern leg of a 20-nation tour that has been marked by chaos and protests.
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Zimbabwe court rejects opposition demand (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 11:27am EDT
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AP - Zimbabwe's High Court rejected an opposition demand Monday for the immediate release of long-delayed election results, prolonging a political crisis that has paralyzed this southern African nation for more than two weeks.
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Lonely Planet rejects fabrication claim (AP)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 4:18am EDT
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AP - Lonely Planet said Monday it stands by the accuracy of its travel guides following news reports that one of its authors claimed he plagiarized and invented sections of the books. -
Top aide to al-Sadr assassinated in Iraq (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:14pm EDT
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AP - Gunmen assassinated a top aide of anti-American leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sharpening a Shiite power struggle that has already triggered fighting between the cleric's followers and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
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Doctor jailed in failed Glasgow attack (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:12pm EDT
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AP - A British court sentenced an Indian doctor Friday to 18 months in prison for withholding information about last year's botched terrorist attack on crowded airport in Scotland.
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Harry Potter author joins writers' call for Darfur action (AFP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:04pm EDT
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AFP - Top children's writers including Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to take urgent action over Darfur to protect the stricken region's children.
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Dalai Lama opens 'compassion conference' in Seattle (AFP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:59pm EDT
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AFP - The Dalai Lama opened a conference on compassion here Friday, but avoided mentioning the situation in Tibet on his first foreign trip since China's crackdown in the Himalayan territory.
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Russia to build new space launchpad (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:48pm EDT
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AP - President Vladimir Putin ordered his government Friday to speed up construction of a new cosmodrome and development of a booster rocket in a bid to revive the nation's space glory.
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Mexicans recall Marine suspect in cabin (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:20pm EDT
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AP - People wondered about the bearded foreigner who moved into a rustic cabin weeks ago in the pine-clad mountains surrounding this picturesque village.
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Zimbabwe bans political rallies (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 5:33pm EDT
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AP - Police banned political rallies on Friday as the crisis deepened over Zimbabwe's unresolved presidential election, with a senior police official warning that anyone who defies the order "will be dealt with severely."
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Food prices add to Haitians' struggles (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 4:58pm EDT
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AP - Joseph Francois has a cupboard filled with dishes but rarely takes them out, even at the best of times.
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France: Hostages held off Somalia freed (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 3:36pm EDT
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AP - Helicopter-borne French troops swooped in on Somali pirates Friday after they freed 30 hostages from a yacht, seizing six of the hijackers and recovering sacks of money — apparently ransom paid by the ship's owners.
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AP photographer: 2 years in detention (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:47pm EDT
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AP - Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein begins his third year in U.S. military detention Saturday with the bulk of accusations against him dropped by Iraqi judges and press freedom groups renewing calls for his release.
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Airline slammed on deaf policy (AP)
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 3:19am EDT
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AP - Ludwig van Beethoven would not be allowed to fly alone on a Tiger Airways flight if he were alive today because of the Singapore-owned airline's purported policy on deaf passengers, a government minister said Friday. -
Buddhist monks call for Dalai Lama (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:18pm EDT
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AP - Tibetan monks in western China called for the return of their exiled spiritual leader Wednesday, as a top official warned that any disruption of the Olympic torch in Tibet would be severely punished.
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Gaza gunmen kill 2 in southern Israel (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:16pm EDT
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AP - Militants from the Gaza Strip slipped across the border and opened fire at a fuel depot in southern Israel on Wednesday, killing two Israeli civilians in a brazen daylight raid that threatened to set off heavy combat after a monthlong lull.
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Haitian president proposes tax cut (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:11pm EDT
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AP - Haiti's president tried to halt a week of rioting Wednesday by calling for tax cuts on imported food, but the capital descended deeper into chaos as looters and protesters took control of the streets.
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AP photographer granted Iraqi amnesty (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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AP - An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.
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Birmingham co-owner and MD arrested in corruption probe (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:08pm EDT
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AFP - Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan and Managing Director Karren Brady were arrested on Wednesday by British police as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in English football.
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S.Korea conservatives win slim majority in MP vote (Reuters)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:59pm EDT
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Reuters - The conservative Grand National Party
(GNP) of South Korea's new president won a slim majority in a
parliamentary election, according to preliminary results
released on Thursday by the National Election Commission.
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China faces Muslim resentment in west (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:39pm EDT
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AP - There was no sign of dissent in the bazaar, where men wove through the crowd on motorcycles with freshly butchered sheep draped behind them. But a Muslim merchant pinched his lips together with his fingers to show he could not talk freely.
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Zambia to host summit on Zimbabwe crisis (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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AFP - The Zimbabwe opposition's bid to build up pressure on Robert Mugabe after disputed polls bore fruit on Wednesday as plans were unveiled for a weekend summit to discuss the escalating crisis.
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Official says Al-Qaida terrorist is dead (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:00pm EDT
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AP - A U.S. counterterrorism official says that Abu Obeida al-Masri, an Egyptian al-Qaida chief who was responsible for attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, is dead. -
Violence kills 16 in Iraq's Sadr City (AP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 10:11am EDT
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AP - Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen clashed Wednesday in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, where attacks killed 16 people on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. capture of the capital.
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Australia offers residence to Iraqis who helped troops (AFP)
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:31am EDT
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AFP - Australia said Wednesday it would offer permanent residence to hundreds of Iraqi employees when Canberra pulls its combat forces out of the strife-torn country later this year.
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Group keeps fervor up in Iranian young (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:24pm EDT
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AP - Zahra Saremi took a different sort of vacation this year to celebrate Iranian New Year — touring the bloody battlefields of Iran's long war with Iraq at a week-long camp dedicated to martyrdom and patriotism. -
Zimbabwe ruling party demands vote recount (AFP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:21pm EDT
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AFP - Zimbabwe's ruling party refused to release its grip on power Sunday, demanding a presidential election recount as Robert Mugabe's feared war veterans tried to seize several white-owned farms.
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Ledley ends Cardiff's 81-year wait to reach the FA Cup final (AFP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:13pm EDT
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AFP - Cardiff City booked a place in the FA Cup final for the first time in 81 years as Joe Ledley's goal clinched a 1-0 semi-final win over Barnsley on Sunday.
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Mugabe's party demands Zimbabwe recount (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:09pm EDT
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AP - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party demanded a vote recount and a further delay in the release of presidential election results, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party.
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Hairdo creates a Ukrainian icon (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:06pm EDT
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AP - On a typical day she may chair a cabinet meeting, visit coal miners or fly to Brussels for a summit. But before she steps out of her home, she sculpts her rich blond hair into a peasant-style braid. Only then does she become the prime minister every Ukrainian can instantly identify. -
Scuffles during UK Olympic torch relay (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:02pm EDT
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AP - Police repeatedly scuffled with protesters as Olympians and dignitaries carried the Olympic torch during a chaotic relay through snowy London on Sunday.
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US envoy hopes for NKorea progress in Singapore (AFP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
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AFP - A top US envoy expressed hope Sunday that he and his North Korean counterpart would make progress in negotiations on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons drive at talks this week in Singapore.
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Laos fears China's footprint (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 12:39pm EDT
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AP - A high-rise Chinatown that is to go up by Laos' laid-back capital has ignited fears that this nation's giant northern neighbor is moving to engulf this nation.
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Iraqi widows, orphans left stranded (AP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 12:33pm EDT
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AP - The car exploded near a popular ice cream parlor, sending flames and shrapnel through the busy square and killing 17 people.
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Japan, India belong on UN Security Council: Australia (AFP)
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:16am EST
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AFP - Japan and India deserve permanent seats on the UN Security Council, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday, stressing that Canberra should also play a greater role in world affairs.
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Rebel's death hinders Betancourt rescue (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 6:07pm EST
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AP - A French-led mission to free hostage Ingrid Betancourt in Colombia may fail because officials cannot find any rebels to talk to about her release. The insurgents are in hiding, their main contact with the outside world is dead and Interpol has an arrest notice out for a top guerrilla leader.
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Zimbabwe opposition reluctant on runoff (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:41am EST
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AP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader on Saturday accused President Robert Mugabe of preparing a "war against the people" and said the party was reluctant to take part in a presidential runoff election.
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Influential Le Monde newspaper faces job cuts (Reuters)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:39am EST
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Reuters - The new management team at France's
establishment newspaper, Le Monde, has proposed shedding 130
staff, including a quarter of its journalists, in an effort to
stem heavy losses.
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India crash to innings defeat against SAfrica (AFP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:22am EST
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AFP - South Africa's pacemen put in a disciplined performance on a good pitch to condemn hosts India to a humiliating defeat by an innings and 90 runs in the second Test here on Saturday.
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South Africa win by innings and 90 runs (Reuters)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:10am EST
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Reuters - South Africa handed India their fourth biggest defeat on home soil on the third day of the second test on Saturday. -
Christian priest killed in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:10am EST
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AP - An Assyrian Orthodox priest was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday in Baghdad, police and an assistant said, the latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority.
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Police fire on Tibetan protesters; 8 die (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:00am EST
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AP - Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, overseas activist groups said. State media reported one government official was seriously injured in what it called a riot.
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Pirates seize French ship off Somalia (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:46am EST
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AP - France's military is keeping close tabs on a French luxury yacht seized by pirates off Somalia's coast, and officials hope to avoid using force to free the 30 crew members, the prime minister said Saturday.
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Bush celebrates NATO's expansion (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:05am EST
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AP - President Bush celebrated NATO's expansion into former communist territory on Saturday and urged further enlargement, highlighting differences with Moscow hours before final talks with outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Indonesia frees suspect in Timor strife (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:08am EST
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AP - Indonesia's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a notorious militia leader accused in attacks that left about 1,000 people dead following East Timor's 1999 independence vote. -
China blocks reporting in Tibetan areas (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 2:59am EST
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AP - It was just after nightfall when three journalists were stopped at a police checkpoint on a winding, rutted road in China's western Sichuan province — territory that had become out of bounds for the foreigners.
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US may heighten travel alert to Mexico (AP)
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:15am EST
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AP - The U.S. ambassador to Mexico warned that the United States may issue a heightened travel alert next week. -
Russia, NATO conclude Afghan land transit deal: NATO official (AFP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 3:15am EST
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AFP - NATO and Russia have concluded a key agreement on the land transit of non-military freight destined for Afghanistan and will endorse it Friday, a NATO spokeswoman said.
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Israel beefs up flight security (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 3:11am EST
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AP - Security has been stepped up on overseas Israeli flights for fear of a revenge attack over the assassination of a suspected terror mastermind, security officials said.
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Mugabe party plans fightback as Zimbabwe tensions mount (AFP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 3:03am EST
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AFP - Robert Mugabe and his top lieutenants were set to draw up battle plans Friday after their disastrous performance in Zimbabwe's elections as the deadline loomed for the results of presidential polls.
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Campbell released on bail in London (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 3:02am EST
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AP - Naomi Campbell was released on bail Friday after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer during a dispute over luggage at Heathrow Airport.
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Climate talks snag over Japan proposal (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:59am EST
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AP - Delegates working on the negotiating agenda for a sweeping global warming pact clashed Friday over Japan's push for early discussions of industry-specific limits on carbon dioxide emissions, delegates and environmentalists said.
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Rescue mission to Colombia founders (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:56am EST
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AP - A French mission to aid an ill French-Colombian hostage appeared to founder soon after it began, with a senior rebel saying she and others will remain captive until Colombia and the U.S. release jailed guerrillas.
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Iraq: Suicide bomber kills 15 at funeral (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:55am EST
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AP - Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has struck a funeral for a Sunni policeman north of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding eight.
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Opposition: Mugabe 'unleashed a war' (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:49am EST
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AP - Zimbabwe's main opposition party says President Robert Mugabe has "unleashed a war" in his bid to stay in power after party offices were raided and foreign journalists detained five days after presidential elections.
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Remote Suriname plane crash kills 19 (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:02am EST
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AP - Officials faced the grim task Friday of identifying the victims of a plane crash in a remote Surinamese jungle that killed all 19 aboard.
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Australian PM criticised for salute to Bush (AFP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 1:41am EST
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AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was Friday attacked by politicians at home for saluting US President George W. Bush during a social gathering for world leaders in Romania.
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Bush, Putin at odds near end of terms (AP)
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 12:23am EST
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AP - President Bush, fresh from securing full NATO support for his missile defense plans for Europe and a pledge to admit former Soviet republics, has plenty to discuss with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai acts presidential (AP)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:57am EST
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AP - Morgan Tsvangirai acts as if he has already been declared Zimbabwe's president.
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Comoros' troubled island expects poll within 3 months (Reuters)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:53am EST
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Reuters - Comoros' Anjouan island expects to organize democratic elections within three months, its interim leader said on Wednesday, a week after his predecessor was ousted in an African Union-backed offensive. -
Benitez calls for calm after derby debacle (AFP)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:51am EST
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AFP - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez issued a call for improved spectator behaviour as police began to investigate reports of crowd abuse by fans of both sides during the Reds' 1-0 derby win over Everton.
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Australia opens carbon burying plant (AP)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:48am EST
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AP - Australia on Wednesday began pumping carbon dioxide underground to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, using a technology that locks dangerous gases deep in the Earth. -
Tibet tourism industry hurts as foreigners blocked (Reuters)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:36am EST
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Reuters - Impoverished Tibet is suffering a huge
loss to its lucrative and fast-growing tourism industry as the
government blocks foreign visitors after last month's deadly
riots, business people in the region said.
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Iraq commander leads convoy into Basra (AP)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 2:36am EST
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AP - The Iraqi commander of an offensive against Shiite militias has led a convoy into a Mahdi Army stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
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Mexican judges freed suspect by accident (AP)
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 12:18am EST
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AP - Two Mexican judges said they accidentally released a suspect in the shooting death of a vacationing University of Colorado student. -
Tibet, trade on agenda as US treasury chief arrives in China (AFP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 10:41pm EST
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AFP - US Treasury chief Henry Paulson began a two-day trip to Beijing Wednesday that was set to see him raise concerns over the Tibet crisis as well as trade issues during talks with China's leaders.
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British researchers create human-animal hybrid embryo amid political row (AFP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 10:37pm EST
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AFP - For the first time in Britain, researchers at Newcastle University said Tuesday they had created human-animal hybrid embryos, amid a political row over a disputed embryo research bill in parliament.
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Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 10:09pm EST
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AP - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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SKorea: NKorea should halt provocation (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 9:28pm EST
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AP - South Korea's Defense Ministry called Wednesday on North Korea to halt its recent moves that have raised tensions on the divided peninsula. -
Zimbabwe suspense grows as results expected (AFP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 8:13pm EST
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AFP - The final results of Zimbabwe's parliamentary election were set to be announced Wednesday amid growing clamour for the outcome of a simultaneous contest which could see Robert Mugabe ousted as president.
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US wants 3,600 new troops in Darfur soon (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:08pm EST
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AP - The United States has urged the United Nations to get 3,600 new peacekeepers on the ground in conflict-wracked Darfur by June, according to a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 4,011 (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:39pm EST
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AP - As of Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at least 4,011 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 3,270 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
Colombian drug lord sentenced in Brazil (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 5:24pm EST
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AP - A judge has sentenced reputed Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia to more than 30 years in prison for crimes he committed in Brazil. -
Cuba lends private farmers unused land (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 5:00pm EST
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AP - Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production. -
Zimbabwe opposition leader: I won (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 3:48pm EST
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AP - The main opposition leader insisted Tuesday he has won Zimbabwe's presidential election outright and denied persistent reports he was negotiating to ease out President Robert Mugabe, who has led the country from liberation to ruin.
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Stolen Aboriginal paintings found (AP)
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 5:43am EST
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AP - Seven historic Aboriginal paintings were stolen Tuesday from an Australian museum then recovered hours later after the thief apparently changed his mind and dumped them in a park, police said.