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- UN gives US$7 million for China earthquake relief
Birmingham News.Net
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced a grant of US$7 million to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Monday's massive earthquake in China.
- Obama slams Bush for comments made in Israel
Birmingham News.Net
Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease terrorists.
- Dungeon children outside at last
Birmingham News.Net
Freed Austrian dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the outside world.
- 78,000 dead in Myanmar - 56,000 missing
Birmingham News.Net
Myanmar's state media say the death toll from cyclone Nargis has reached almost 78,000 and that another 56,000 people are missing.
- Australian politician suggests force against Myanmar leaders
Birmingham News.Net
An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis escalate.
- Bush oil plea rejected by Saudis
Birmingham News.Net
US President George Bush's request for Saudi Arabia to produce more oil has been rejected.
- Gadaffi says European states involved in murder
Birmingham News.Net
The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach land.
- UN anti-torture committee points at Indonesia
Birmingham News.Net
The UN Committee Against Torture has reported that Indonesian police, armed forces and intelligence services regularly use torture on criminal suspects to extract confessions.
- Gujarat police raid Internet cafes for bomb evidence
Birmingham News.Net
The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts.
- Georgia sends envoy to ease tensions with Russia
Birmingham News.Net
Georgia has sent an envoy to Russia to ease tensions between two countries over its break-away region Abkhazia.
- Date for Zimbabwe elections announced
Birmingham News.Net
The run-off election for president has been announced by Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission.
- Sri Lankan suicide bomber strikes at former colleagues
Birmingham News.Net
At least ten people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on Friday.
- Austrian incest father made false threats
Birmingham News.Net
Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl's threats to gas his cellar-dwelling family if they tried to escape, has proven a mere bluff.
- Italian government banishes illegal immigrants
Birmingham News.Net
Italian police have arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants.
- Bin Laden threatens Israel in latest message
Birmingham News.Net
In his latest audio message, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has vowed that Palestine will never be relinquished "as long as one true Muslim remains on...
- Marine sex abuser jailed in Japan
Birmingham News.Net
A US military court in the Japanese island of Okinawa has sentenced a 38-year-old US marine to four years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Japanese girl.
- Aftershock rattles China quake zone
New York Post
A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people...
- No deal on Iran nuclear negotiations
Birmingham News.Net
Iran and a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency have finished their three-day talks here without resolving allegations that Iran is pursuing secret weapons studies.
- BA annual profits more than doubles on int. travel
KeralaNext
British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than doubled.
- Carnival ride collapses in California; 24 injured
New York Post
The carnival ride, called the Yo-Yo, collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, about 80 miles southeast of Sacramento.
- UAW, American Axle reach deal that may end strike
New York Post
About 3,600 workers at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. will find out soon whether a new contract was worth 80 days without a company paycheck.
- Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding
New York Post
Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web...
- Minister charged with soliciting teen
New Zealand Herald
A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch has been caught in an internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said.Undercover officers posing as a...
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