World News
- Obama caught up in controversial remarks
Middle East News.Net
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has become a controversial figure almost overnight with his latest comments on Iraq.
- US man gives birth to baby girl
Middle East News.Net
People magazine in the US has reported that Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man due to hormone treatment, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital.
- Bush will attend China Olympics opening
CNN
Some senators, including Hillary Clinton, sent Bush letter urging him not to attend A number of world leaders have said they will not attend Not attending: Angela Merkel, Poland's Donald Tusk, U.K.'s...
- Hundreds of Zimbabweans seek refuge at US embassy
The Independent
About 200 Zimbabwean opposition supporters have sought refuge at the US embassy in Harare amid new reports of violence against dissenters. Loyalists of President Robert Mugabe, whose unopposed...
- US employees snoop on private celebrity information
Middle East News.Net
In the US, an internal State Department report suggests celebrities may have had their privacy breached by employees.
- Car bomb explodes near Baghdad morgue
Middle East News.Net
A car bomb has exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals, killing four people and wounding 10.
- London police at a loss to explain shocking murder
Middle East News.Net
Police in London have been shocked at a frenzied attack on two French students.
- Britain pours more money into Pakistan
Middle East News.Net
Britain says it will double assistance to Pakistan to secure the trouble-plagued border, which is shared with Afghanistan.
- Opposition supporters arrested in Cuba
Middle East News.Net
Eight people have been arrested in Cuba, in an action against opponents of the communist government.
- Medvedev says he will end corruption in Russia
Middle East News.Net
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on says he will establish anti-corruption legislation by next year.
- Family says bulldozer driver not a terrorist
Middle East News.Net
The family of a 30-year old East Jerusalem man who went amok Wenesday with a bulldozer, killing three people, say he was not a terrorist.
- McCain anti-Russia comments re-emerge
Middle East News.Net
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed US presidential candidate John McCain's pledge to seek Russia's explusion from the G8 if he is elected.
- UK spending power
BBC
UK consumer spending power has fallen "dramatically" due to a large rise in the cost of living, research by Ernst & Young suggests. The average household is 15% worse off than it was five years...
- Colombian rebels tricked into releasing hostages
Middle East News.Net
In an epic operation, the Colombian Army have infiltrated the ranks of the country's fiercest leftist rebels and rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others without blood-letting or a bullet fired.
- Brazil to become grain bank for the world
Middle East News.Net
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced an initiative, involving an investment of US$49 billion, to make Brazil the 'granary of the...
- Pakistan to host hockey tournament in memory of Benazir
Middle East News.Net
Pakistan's hockey chief Thursday promised to host an international tournament next summer in the memory of former premier Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last year.
- Israeli rabbi invited to Saudi interfaith meeting
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In this Jan. 25, 2007 file photo Rabbi David Rosen, president of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, is seen in Davos, Switzerland. Rosen will attend an interfaith...
- How to save gasoline and work in comfort
Haaretz
Most of us go to and from work in our own cars, but anyone interested in cutting costs and even gaining new friends along the way can join the new carpooling initiatives. Web sites such as...
- Ex-hostage reunited with children in Colombia
Reuters
Ingrid Betancourt, the symbol of rebel hostages in Colombia, hugged and wept with her children for the first time in six years on Thursday after a military rescue that dealt a...
- Getting to the root of family trees
The Herald
... advertisement These kinds of unknown facts about relations are often what sparks people's lasting fascination with tracing their roots, and the Blakers' descendants might be intrigued to learn that...
- Staff shake-up part of
New York Post
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that a shake-up in the leadership of his campaign was part of a "natural evolution" as the organization becomes more...
- Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
Reuters
A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal...
- Colombia rescue hinged on rebel disarray, payback
New York Post
Its success hinged entirely, its planners said Thursday, on a near-total breakdown in communications between the isolated guerrilla jailers and their commanders - the net result of years of intense...
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