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| China plane crash: 42 bodies, black box recovered from debris Daily News & Analysis By KJM Varma | Place: Beijing | Agency: Reuters Fifty-four passengers, including a senior Chinese minister, made a dramatic escape from the ill-fated airliner which broke into two as it came into land in the northeast city of Yichun in remote ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dozens Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Iraq New York Times By STEPHEN FARRELL and ANTHONY SHADID BAGHDAD — In what seemed to be part of a coordinated wave of attacks across the country that claimed dozens of lives, a car bomb killed 15 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday in an assault on a police ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fresh Fighting Erupts in Mogadishu Voice of America Fresh fighting has erupted in the Somali capital between Islamist militants and government troops following Tuesday's militant attack on a Mogadishu hotel that killed 31 people. The French news agency reports at least six civilians were killed in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lieberman: No peace within a year Jerusalem Post By JPOST.COM STAFF Israel and the Palestinians are unlikely to reach an agreement within a year, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday. Speaking to Israel Radio, the foreign minister said that the Palestinians are making too many demands ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chile president vows mine rescue BBC News Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has told the 33 men trapped in a mine in the north of the country every effort is being made to free them. In a telephone conversation with the shift leader, Luis Urzua, Mr Pinera said the whole of Chile was with them ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aid workers describe devastation from Pakistan floods CNN By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) -- The United Nations made an urgent plea for helicopters as the death toll from weeks of massive flooding in Pakistan neared 1600 people Wednesday. "We need at least 40 additional heavy-lift helicopters, working at full ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Pak facing worst ever natural disaster: Gilani Oneindia Islamabad, Aug.25 (ANI): With one-fifth part of the country inundated and nearly 20 million people affected, Pakistan is facing its worst natural calamity, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. During a meeting with visiting US Central Command ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| CIA sees increased threat in Yemen Washington Post By Greg Miller For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to US security, officials said. The sober new assessment of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| High school teacher asks class to plan terror attack CNN By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- An Australian high school teacher caused a stir this week after asking her class to plan a terror attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible. The teacher of society and an environment class told her pupils ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Analysis: US struggles with image in Pakistan The Associated Press WASHINGTON — US efforts to help Pakistani flood victims will give America's image there a boost, but not much of one. The US reputation in a country the Obama administration sees as crucial to defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida already is so tarnished ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Stem cell judge used to stirring things up Washington Post By Spencer S. Hsu In barring the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, US District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth this week added to a 23-year history of confounding presidents of both political parties from the bench of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Australia election: Independents seek budget clarity BBC News Three independent lawmakers who may hold the balance of power in the wake of Australia's inconclusive election have asked to see costings for pre-election promises. Neither the ruling Labor party nor the opposition Liberal-led coalition won a majority ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Wireless in Gaza Wall Street Journal If young Palestinians have access to better information today, they may make better decisions tomorrow. By DAVID TAFURI I am in a van crossing into Ramallah with executives from America's largest Internet company. As we speed through the gate leading ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US, UN slaps sanctions against Osama's son-in-law Daily News & Analysis Place: Washington, DC | Agency: PTI Directly targeting the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden, the US today slapped sanctions against his son-in-law Muhammad Abdallah Hasan Abu al-Khayr, who is now considered as the key leader of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Far From Ground Zero, a Good-Will Tour New York Times By THANASSIS CAMBANIS MUHARRAQ, Bahrain — The latecomers to Sheik Salah al-Jowder's majlis, or weekly assembly, wished peace upon their cousins and shook all the men's hands before sitting down on the deep striped sofas that lined the oblong reception ... See all stories on this topic » |
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