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Madonna and Justin Timberlake’s ’4 Minutes’ has remained atop the UK singles chart for a fourth week. It becomes Madonna’s longest-running chart-topper since 1990, when ‘Vogue’ also remained at number one for four weeks. No Madonna single has ever spent five weeks at the top. Rapper Wiley climbs a place to two with ‘Wearing My [...]
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Calm returns to the streets of Beirut after days of fighting as the Lebanese army takes over security control. via Reuters Read more
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MARRED AID IN MYANMAR AP May 11, 2008 — YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s military regime distributed international aid yesterday, but plastered the boxes with the names of generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. “We have [...]
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So we were on the edge of our seats Tuesday watching Oprah’s much-hyped interview with Barbara Walters. O had just asked about Barbara’s heretofore-secret affair with former Sen. Ed Brooke when — DOH! — ABC News breaks in with a special report about the NC primary. Read more
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Israel will mark the 60th anniversary of its founding next week, on May 14. Notes from and about the Jewish state as the big day approaches: Read more
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El ocaso de la influencia estadounidense en el mundo ha sido tema para numerosos análisis en los medios últimamente. “Ya no somos tan fuertes”, escribió esta semana el columnista Thomas L. Friedman del New York Times. “No somos quienes creemos ser. Estamos viviendo con tiempo y dinero prestados”. Read more
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TOKYO — China and Japan have been reliable enemies for a thousand years. Their leaders have always been able to count on each other to stir nationalist anger and distract their followers from other problems by trading insults, threats or at times blows. Read more
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VIENNA — A 13-year-old schoolgirl in southern Austria celebrated the start of her spring break with a bottle of schnapps. Read more
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When North Korean businessman Ho Jin Yun first caught the attention of German customs police in 2002, he was on a continental buying spree with a shopping list that seemed as random as it was long. Read more
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Near midnight on a California spring night, armed guards escorted Yusif Osman into an immigration prison ringed by concertina wire at the end of a winding, isolated road. Read more
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The Senate gave decisive backing yesterday to a U.S.-Peru free-trade agreement, opening the way for expanded economic ties with the Andean nation and giving the administration a boost in its quest to shore up relations with Latin America. Read more
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TIJUANA, Mexico, May 10 — You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca’s immigration lawyer advised her, but don’t put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, May 10 — Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced Saturday that he will soon return to his country to participate in a presidential runoff election despite a surge in political violence against his supporters. Read more
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BAGHDAD, May 10 — A top aide to Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that the influential Shiite cleric had reached an agreement with lawmakers aligned with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end fighting in the Sadr City district of the capital. Read more
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NAIROBI, May 10 — Darfur rebels launched an unprecedented attack on the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, crossing hundreds of miles of desert in an attempt to overthrow the government of President Omar Bashir, according to Sudanese officials and the rebels. Read more
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YANGON (Reuters) – Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of them would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon. Read more
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed on Saturday in Missouri and Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the area, authorities in the two states said. Read more
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Hezbollah has agreed to withdraw its gunmen from Beirut after the Lebanese army settled tensions between the Shia group and armed government supporters. Read more
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Muslim West Beirut was mostly calm a day after Hezbollah and its allies seized control of neighborhoods from Sunnis loyal to the government. Most Hezbollah gunmen had pulled out, leaving small bands of their Shiite Amal allies to patrol the streets. Read more
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Senator Barack Obama plans to push Senator Hillary Clinton out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 10 days’ time, his aides said yesterday. Read more