AP - Poland and other former Soviet satellites have expressed deep anxiety that the escalation of fighting between Russia and Georgia signals a resurgent Russia's willingness to use force to dominate the newly democratic region. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Roman temple ruins from the 2nd century A.D. have
emerged from excavations at the ancient Jewish capital of the Galilee in
Israel. -- read full article
AFP - World oil prices rose by more than one dollar in Asian trade Monday on supply concerns amid the escalating fighting between Georgia and Russia, dealers said.
Reuters - Flash floods and landslides brought by
tropical storm Kammuri since Saturday have battered mountainous
villages in northern Vietnam, killing at least 97 people and
leaving 48 missing, the government said on Monday.
LiveScience.com - Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the
discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history
being made today. -- read full article
Reuters - A suicide car bomb attack on
security forces killed at least six civilians east of Algiers
late on Saturday, the second such blast this month, authorities
in OPEC member Algeria said on Sunday.
AP - Forty villagers riding on a truck were swept away by a flooded river and feared dead Sunday in southern India, where monsoon rains have claimed at least 59 lives in the past three days, officials said. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Scientists have taken another step toward the goal of rendering objects invisible using high-tech cloaks that redirect light. -- read full article
AP - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.
