AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is downplaying the idea of a nuclear attack by terrorists after recent postings on al-Qaida-affiliated Web sites exhorted militants to pursue weapons of mass destruction for use against the U.S.
AP - Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 million others to be ready to leave quickly as a lake formed by a devastating earthquake threatened to breach its dam.
AFP - A crane crashed onto a building in New York city Friday killing one person and seriously injuring two others, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, describing the incident as "unacceptable and intolerable."
AFP - China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a "quake lake" that threatens to burst and send torrents of water into heavily populated areas.
Reuters - Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who
spent eight years locked in a windowless cell after being
abducted in Vienna, turns TV chat show host on Sunday when her
debut program airs on national television.
Reuters - A Bahamian designated by the White House
as an international drug kingpin was sentenced to 35 years in
prison on Friday by a federal court judge. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 18:27:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Reuters - Dramatic photographs of
previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the
precariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and the
dangers they face from contact with outsiders.
Reuters - Two weeks after actress Angelina
Jolie publicly acknowledged she was expecting twins with actor
Brad Pitt, contradictory reports circulated on Friday about
whether she had given birth.
Reuters - A passenger plane skidded off a
runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday on landing,
veered onto a road and smashed into cars and a building,
killing at least three people. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 18:31:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Reuters - A bill going to the U.S. Senate next week
seeking deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gases by 2050 is a "first
step" but not enough to avert damaging climate change, the head
of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Friday.
Reuters - A large crane collapsed in New York
City on Friday, killing one person and damaging an apartment
building on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- a day after city
officials investigated the crane's operations.
AP - For Serena Williams, missed chances came in a flurry. She shanked overheads, hit wild volleys and squandered six break points Friday at the French Open. The result: a stunning third-round loss to Katarina Srebotnik, 6-4, 6-4.
