World News
- Obama voted in by delegates
Los Angeles News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
- World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
Los Angeles News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
- UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
Los Angeles News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
- Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Los Angeles News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
- Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
Los Angeles News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
- Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Los Angeles News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
- UAE president pardons jail inmates
Los Angeles News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
- British troops in grave danger in Afghanistan
Los Angeles News.Net
Afghanistan is now more dangerous for British troops than Iraq has ever been, a new report has revealed.
- Hijackers allow passengers to leave
Los Angeles News.Net
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have freed all 95 passengers on board.
- Barack Obama plot put together by rascists
Los Angeles News.Net
US federal investigation authorities have said that people arrested in connection with a possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, were consumed by a seething hatred towards the Illinois Senator.
- Cancer can be detected by odour
Los Angeles News.Net
Researchers are developing a new tool to smell and identify specific gases exhaled in the breath of a person with cancer, for its early detection.
- Churchill urged to keep wartime secret agency going in peacetime
BBC
The head of Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive urged Winston Churchill to keep the secret agency going in peacetime. Files released by the National Archives show that Lord Selborne...
- Spider forces family out of home
BBC
A soldier's family have been frightened out of their home by a dangerous spider thought to have been brought to Essex from Afghanistan in a kitbag. Lorraine Griffiths and her three children have...
- As food prices soar, Brazil and Argentina react in opposite ways
International Herald Tribune
SÃO PAULO, Brazil : Luciano Alves planted beans, corn and grain on about 7,500 acres of his farm in southern Brazil last year. This year, he is planting 8,600 acres. And he credits Brazil's...
- Obama to accept nod on symbolic day
CNN
Barack Obama is first African American to lead major party ticket John McCain, Hillary Clinton have questioned Obama's experience Obama has billed himself as the candidate of change Watch Obama's...
- Microsoft releases beta 2 of Internet E
The Australian
MICROSOFT has released a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used web browser.
- New hope 45 years after King
MSNBC
... ldquo;I was young, naïve enough to think I would see that in 5, 10 years,” she said. “Then you see leaders killed, you see police brutality, residential segregation in cities. About 10 years ago I...
- Claremont serial killer video released
The Australian
TWELVE years after it was taken, West Australian police have released surveillance video of a mystery man seen speaking to one of the victims of the Claremont serial killer.
- Biden opens new phase with attack on McCain
International Herald Tribune
DENVER : Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night with an ode to his middle-class upbringing and a blistering attack on Senator...
- Thai PM vows patience with protesters
The Australian
THAILAND'S Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej on Thursday vowed not to use force to remove thousands of protesters camped out at the besieged government compound, and said the ball was in their court.
- Eagles heroes, ruffians and blips
Philadelphia Daily News
These colorful characters all played one season or less in an Eagles uniform. Alabama Pitts (1935): Signed out of Sing Sing prison, he was not a breakout star. Irv Kupcinet (1935): After his...
- Democrats choose Obama in historic acclamation
New York Post
Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their...
- Tatts plays down analyst forecast
The Australian
TTS today booked a 11 per cent fall in full-year net profit to $257.6 million for the year ending It compares with $288.6 million in fiscal 2008. Analysts had expected $259.6 million...
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