Darfur Refugee Crisis
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Sudan: Internally displaced persons in Sudan loading their property onto trucks at Al-Mustaqbal school, West Darfur Read more
Blagobliography: Web resoures on impeachment
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Here are the documents that some state lawmakers are studying this weekend as they ponder whether their next move should be to start impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Read more
Local Elections And London Mayor – Bloggers Discuss The Results Tonight
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Why does Nelson Mandela need special permission to enter the United States? And why are Swedish traffic lights getting more woman-friendly? Douglas McFarlane from the UK Theatre Network site came in to tell Martin Stanford the answers to these vexing questions on Sky.Com News last night. You can hear his take on the stories moving [...]
Austria Cellar Dad Josef Fritzl Spent 18-Months In Prison For Rape
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New information is emerging about the past of the Austrian man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her children. Reports suggest Josef Fritzl committed other sex crimes and should have been caught earlier. Sky’s Greg Milam reports. Read more
Madonna clinches chart double
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Pop queen Madonna has scored a rare UK chart double this week – the fourth of her career. Hard Candy, her 11th studio collection, enters the albums chart at number one, while she spends a third week atop the singles chart with ’4 Minutes’. Candy matches the number one performance of her last studio album, [...]
Mystery, hope and prayer mark Madeleine anniversary
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The Madeleine posters in Britain’s pub windows may have faded but suddenly, one year on from her disappearance from a holiday apartment in Portugal, the pretty girl’s smile is everywhere again. Read more
‘O’ WINS GUAM
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‘O’ WINS GUAM AP May 4, 2008 — HAGATNA, Guam – Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in yesterday’s Democratic caucuses on Guam by just seven votes. The territory sends four pledged delegates and five superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention but islanders have no vote in November. Obama now has 1,740 total delegates to [...]
Hillary Goes on O’Reilly Wednesday for first time!
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Hillary Goes on O’Reilly Wednesday for first time! Did you just feel the earth shake? Hillary Clinton has agreed to an interview with Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly. It will be Hill’s first time on “The O’Reilly Factor” after receiving what the Foxies say have been numerous invitations to appear over the years. It’s such [...]
Sweden’s innovative green tech: It’s a [bio]gas, gas, gas!
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Many Americans are deeply concerned about the alarming, harmful effects of pollution and worldwide climate change, and are working at the grassroots level to educate their fellow citizens about them and to change their consumption and waste-making patterns. Officially, however, the U.S. under the rule of the Bush gang has ignored the United Nations-backed Kyoto [...]
Freetown, where preachers feed on the poverty
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Times Online news reporter Hannah Strange is spending a week in Sierra Leone, an African country still racked by the aftermath of a brutal civil war in which tens of thousands were killed and a third of its total population displaced. Here is the first of her daily diary entries: Read more
Alianza con Chávez se torna en contra de Morales en Bolivia
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Cuando el boliviano Evo Morales fue elegido el primer presidente indÃgena del Hemisferio Occidental por un paÃs con mayorÃa indÃgena, el lÃder venezolano Hugo Chávez no tardó en proclamarse su aliado. Read more
Bush’s Rescuers
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Democratic leaders in Congress are riding to the rescue of an unlikely beneficiary: the reputation of George W. Bush. They seem determined to exacerbate problems that he has created or long ignored. Read more
Major Powers Offer Iran New Incentives
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LONDON, May 2 — Six world powers agreed Friday to offer Iran a new mix of incentives to curtail its nuclear program, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced here. Read more
In India, Fairness Is a Growth Industry
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CAVELOSSIM, India He’s the rugged type, with sculpted arm muscles. He rides a motorcycle and wears a trendy tank top, wraparound sunglasses and slicked-back hair. There’s only one problem: His skin color is a few shades too dark. His fair-skinned love interest won’t even accept his offer of a rose. Read more
20 Haitian Migrants Die at Sea; 58 Missing
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MEXICO CITY, May 4 — At least 20 Haitian migrants died and 58 were missing Friday after an overloaded sailboat capsized off the Turks and Caicos Islands. Read more
State Autonomy Vote May Reshape Bolivia
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, May 3 — The dates on a 20-foot-high countdown calendar that hangs in this city’s main square do not go past Sunday, when voters decide whether their state will declare autonomy from Bolivia’s central government. Read more
Free Trade and Low Taxes Star in Republican Debate
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DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 9 — On a day when stock indexes hit record highs, Republican presidential candidates gathered here Tuesday for a group defense of low taxes and free markets and warned that Democrats, particularly Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, pose the greatest danger to the nation’s future prosperity. Read more
U.S. Airstrike Kills Somali Accused of Links to Al-Qaeda
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NAIROBI, May 1 — A top insurgent leader in Somalia whom U.S. officials have accused of having ties to al-Qaeda was killed in a U.S. airstrike early Thursday, according to the Islamist group he led. Read more
Mullen Cites U.S. ‘Vulnerability’
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The nation’s top military officer warned yesterday that the transition to a new American president will mark a “time of vulnerability” as the United States fights two wars, and he said military leaders are already actively preparing for the changing of the guard. Read more
Zimbabwe Voting Results Will Force Leadership Runoff
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 2 — Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won more votes than President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s presidential election but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to official results released Friday after a delay of more than a month. Read more