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Bomb kills 14 at pet market in Baghdad 02/01/08
BAGHDAD - A bomb struck a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 14 civilians and wounding nearly two dozen, police said. The blast o...
Rockets hit British in southern Iraq 02/01/08
BAGHDAD - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain's airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered...
US military deaths in Iraq at 3,942 02/01/08
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 Associat...
UK probes claims of Iraq detainee deaths 02/01/08
LONDON - Britain's military is investigating allegations that 22 detainees died in its custody and nine others were tortured after a battle in Iraq, officials s...
Olmert won't resign over war report 02/01/08
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signaled Thursday that he has no intention of stepping down after an inquiry held his government and the military...

EU clashes over authorizing GMO maize types 02/26/08
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union farm ministers fell short of a consensus agreement on Monday to allow imports of five genetically modified (GMO) products, p...
EU split over biotech maize, potato 02/26/08
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU farm ministers failed on Monday to agree whether to allow new strains of genetically modified maize and potato, amid persisting divisions ov...
Bulgarian pop diva keeps flame burning for Castro 02/01/08
SOFIA (Reuters) - Yordanka Hristova was once called the bride of all Cubans and was so popular on Fidel Castro's island that Cuban families named their daughter...
Slovenia heads EU as Balkan neighbors begin to stir 02/01/08
Ljubljana, Slovenia - This tiny verdant patch of Europe has been a star pupil among new European Union states. Now, after three years of diligent study, Sloveni...
Storm battered ship grounded on English coast 02/01/08
LONDON (Reuters) - Passengers and non-essential crew were airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday a...

Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome 02/01/08
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico - Mayra Nieve is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to ...
Police: New evidence in Holloway case 02/01/08
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new information in the Natalee Holloway case provided by a Dutch crime r...
Mexico seeks US probe of border tear gas 02/01/08
MEXICO CITY - Mexico has formally requested the United States investigate recent incidents in which Border Patrol officers fired tear gas onto the Mexican side ...
Mexico to focus on crimes against women 02/01/08
MEXICO CITY - Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do m...
Argentine activists take torture center 02/01/08
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who launched a human rights crusade in the late 70s against a bloody dictatorship, took cont...

China, India speed climate change: Australian report 02/27/08
SYDNEY (AFP) - The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urg...
Tianjin joins Beijing in Olympic air pollution fight 02/27/08
BEIJING, Feb 22, 2008 (AFP) - The port city of Tianjin has joined neighbouring Beijing in the fight to clean the air for the Olympics by cutting vehicle traffic...
China wants US satellite downing data 02/26/08
BEIJING - China asked the U.S. on Thursday to release data on the missile hit on an ailing spy satellite, while the Communist Party's newspaper blasted what it ...
China to launch second lunar probe in 2009: report 02/26/08
China hopes to launch its second moon-orbiting satellite in 2009, state media reported Friday, as the country steps up its space programme. The news came after ...
Japan launches experimental Internet satellite 02/26/08
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan launched an experimental communications satellite on Saturday as part of an ambitious space program that could help ensure super high-sp...

Canada says tough times a challenge for budget 02/01/08
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is better placed than other members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations to withstand the difficulties likely to confront the ...
Canadian sisters, age 1 and 3, found dead in snow 02/01/08
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Thursday they are investigating the father of two toddlers who were found dead in the snow, wearing only ...
Canada's top court to hear case on pension funding 02/01/08
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Canada will look into whether companies can fund their contributions to their pension funds from surpluses in those fund...
No plea deal yet in Canadian Air India bomb trial 02/01/08
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian prosecutors and a lawyer for the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India bombings played coy on Wednesday ...
"Trailer" a shaky construction of ramshackle laughs 02/01/08
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - One of the less felicitous cultural exports in its history, the Canadian-made Trailer Park Boys: The Movie demonstrates that the...

Australia to apologize to Aborigines 02/01/08
MOUNT DRUITT, Australia - As a girl, Mari Melito Russell felt out of place. She was darker than the other kids at school, she felt more comfortable in the fores...
Japan kills whales as protesters pull out: report 02/01/08
SYDNEY (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 ...
Aboriginal leaders to welcome lawmakers 02/01/08
CANBERRA, Australia - Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony ...
Media bidding war starts for Guantanamo ex-detainee 02/01/08
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo Bay detainee convicted of terrorism charges, is at the centre of a worldwide media bidding war fo...
Wife's body kept in drum for 23 years, Australian court told 02/01/08
SYDNEY (AFP) - A man kept his wife's body in a drum container at the family home for 23 years after pretending she had run off with another man, Australian pros...

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