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U.S., others urge Russia to accept truce Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:29 GMT The world’s seven largest economic powers are calling on Russia to accept an immediate cease-fire with Georgia and agree to mediation over the crisis in Georgia’s separatist areas, the AP reported. |
Day 3: Records drown in Olympic pool Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:22:23 GMT In perhaps the biggest story of the day, Michael Phelps dodged a bullet to collect his second gold medal and stay on course for a possible eight on an incredible record-breaking day at the Water Cube on Monday. |
Obama: Sign up to know V.P. choice first Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:31:16 GMT In a highly unusual move, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign manager has sent e-mails to supporters offering them the chance “to be the first to know his choice” of a vice presidential running mate. |
Bush: Games exceeded expectations Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:48:36 GMT President Bush said Monday the Beijing Olympics exceeded his expectations, calling them a “very uplifting experience” that he won’t forget.
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Musician Isaac Hayes dies at 65 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:12:43 GMT Legendary singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes, whose relentless “Theme From Shaft” won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said. He was 65. A new generation knew him as the former Chef on TV’s “South Park.”
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More gay men now ‘married with children’ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:54:37 GMT The idea of becoming a biological dad with help from a surrogate mother is gaining allure among gay men as the status of “married with children” grows ever more possible. |
Condition of Olympic stabbing victim improves Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:11:48 GMT The condition of the American woman stabbed on the opening weekend of the Olympics has improved. |
| Winning Iraqi hearts and minds with money Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:11 GMT In the five-year struggle to finish the war in Iraq, military leaders and their troops have said a particular weapon is among the most effective in their arsenal: American cash. |
NYT: Winfrey backing equals a million votes Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:31:35 GMT
Pundits routinely claim that celebrity endorsements have little sway on voters, but two economists found that at least one celebrity holds influence in the voting booth: Oprah Winfrey.
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At least 38 people died when their ferry sank in a river in Myanmar’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta, official newspapers reported on Friday.
Twenty South Korean activist farmers have been detained by Japanese immigration for over 19 hours and expect to be deported, a spokesman for the group said, in further signs of growing security jitters from the host nation ahead of a G8 summit.
A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into an Israeli commuter bus, cars and pedestrians on one of Jerusalem’s busiest streets on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, emergency services said.
China launched another attack on exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday even as his envoys and Chinese officials had a second day of secretive fence-mending talks.Zhang Qingli, Tibet’s hardline Communist Party boss, repeated government claims that riots in Tibet in March were instigated by the “Dalai clique” - Communist jargon for his supporters - who were intent on causing a bloodbath.
July 1 was a day of partying for some of Canada’s 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was also a regular workday for many, as the battle group joined in a surprise attack on a Taliban stronghold southwest of Kandahar City.
Canadian kin of the Sept. 11, 2001, victims are among those outraged by an announcement the Ground Zero memorial to their loved ones won’t be ready in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks - despite promises to the contrary.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe welcomes the African Union’s call for a unity government and is ready to talk to the opposition to end the political crisis there, one of his ministers said on Wednesday.
The Western U.S. governors closed their three-day meeting Tuesday by agreeing to develop a diversified energy strategy that will include, at least for now, Alberta oilsands.
It has become the battle of the Vietnam War heroes, pitting a former four-star general against America’s most famous ex-prisoner of war.
Irish voters have rejected the European Union’s Lisbon treaty in a referendum, the government acknowledged on Friday, potentially scuppering EU reform plans.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe raised the spectre of war on Friday by warning that his staunchest supporters are ready to take up arms rather than let the opposition triumph in a June 27 election.
Japan will lift some sanctions on North Korea including a ban on charter flights and travel after Pyongyang agreed to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, Japan’s top government spokesman said on Friday.
Israel on Friday announced its second settlement project in occupied east Jerusalem in a month, enraging Palestinians just ahead of a US visit aimed at rescuing the stalemated peace process.
Three months after demonstrations flared up in Tibetan towns and monasteries across China, monks say they now have to pass a patriotic test, possibly in September, to be allowed to remain as monks.
In a setback for the Bush administration’s policy on holding foreign terror suspects, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Guantanamo Bay detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge being held without charge.
Finance ministers from the world’s leading industrialized powers prepared for talks Friday seeking a way to stem soaring food and oil prices that are endangering world economic growth.
Long-shot White House hopeful Ron Paul formally abandoned his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, vowing to remain on the political scene.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will visit Canada next week at the height of an intense election-year debate with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Just two weeks after the five Arctic Ocean countries - including Canada - pledged to tone down the rhetoric over their competing territorial claims in the polar region, a high-ranking Russian defence official has announced plans to bolster his nation’s military presence in the far north.
Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson will have three minutes today to spell out Canada’s commitment to Afghanistan at a conference of countries involved in the mission to suppress the Taliban-led insurgency and rebuild the violence- and corruption-ravaged country.
Actor Paul Newman told friends as far back as 18 months ago that he was battling cancer but has remained energetic and active in charity work, a friend and business associate said on Wednesday.
Pluto, demoted from planet status in 2006, got a consolation prize on Wednesday - it and other dwarf planets like it will be called plutoids.
Serbia arrested wartime Bosnian Serb security chief Stojan Zupljanin on Wednesday and was to send him to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague for trial on war crimes charges.
The Canadian military is teaming up with Afghan army and police units to safeguard Ottawa’s just-announced “signature” aid project from becoming too tempting a target for insurgents.
Myanmar’s military rulers tightened security around the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, the day her latest year-long stretch of house arrest is due to expire.
Nearly 100 former Chilean soldiers and secret police from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship were ordered detained on Monday in the biggest single mass arrest for abuses during the period, judicial sources said.
Families who lost their only child in China’s devastating earthquake will be allowed to have another baby under clarifications made to the nation’s “one-child” policy, state press said.
It’s Canada’s forgotten neighbour, better known as the source of Havarti cheese and puff pastries than as a nation sharing 2,000 kilometres of our coastal waters - or as a serious rival in the intensifying international competition for Arctic power and wealth.
At least seven people were killed and more than 60 injured when a bomb exploded on a train during rush hour in the Sri Lankan capital on Monday, military officials said.
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