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    South Africa camps not fit for displaced migrants: Oxfam (Reuters)

    A woman carries a child during a demonstration against the recent wave of xenophobic attacks in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town May 31, 2008. (Mark Wessels/Reuters)Reuters - The camps where South Africa's government plans to house migrants displaced by xenophobic attacks do not meet humanitarian standards, international aid agency Oxfam said on Sunday.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:13:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Mexicans believe drug gangs winning war with gov't (Reuters)

    Soldiers and federal policemen stand next to the bodies of three policemen killed during a gun battle in Culiacan, May 27, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - A majority of Mexicans believe violent drug gangs are winning a war with President Felipe Calderon's government after one of the worst months on record for killings, Reforma newspaper reported on Sunday.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:39:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Hezbollah says releases Israeli soldiers' remains (Reuters)

    A Lebanese Hezbollah supporter chants slogans during a celebration in Naqoura village, south Lebanon, to mark the release of Nissim Nasser after a six-year jail term in Israel June 1, 2008. Hezbollah said on Sunday it had released the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war with Israel, which let go a Lebanese man who had completed a jail term on charges of spying for the group. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)Reuters - Hezbollah said on Sunday it had released the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in a 2006 war with Israel, which handed over a Lebanese man who had completed a jail term on charges of spying for the group.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:40:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    China breathes more easily as quake-lake fears ebb (Reuters)

    Survivors of the quake queue for food in the earthquake-hit area of Mianzhu, Sichuan Province May 29, 2008. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)Reuters - Fears of a devastating flood from a lake formed by last month's Sichuan earthquake eased on Sunday after hundreds of soldiers and engineers successfully completed a channel to drain away the rising water.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:24:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iraq hits milestones on U.S. troop deaths and oil (Reuters)

    A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion provides security as his comrades conduct house-to-house search on the edge of Shiite dominated Baghdad's neighbourhood of Shulla, May 21, 2008. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. troop deaths in Iraq fell to their lowest level last month since the 2003 invasion and officials said on Sunday improved security also helped the country boost oil production in May to a post-war high.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:25:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Fire destroys buildings at Universal Studios in LA (Reuters)

    Firefighters work amongst the debris after a fire raged out of control at the backlot filled with movie sets at Universal Studios in Universal City, Los Angeles, June 1, 2008. (Andrew Gombert/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - A massive fire broke out at the Universal Studios film and TV studio on Sunday, engulfing one soundstage and burning a New York City street set.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:14:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Ivanovic, Jankovic advance at French Open (AP)

    Serbia's Ana Ivanovic blows a kiss to the public after defeating Czech Republic's Petra Cetkovska during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament, Sunday June 1, 2008 at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Nursing a sore shoulder, Jelena Jankovic won one point with broken strings, another after falling down and the last one despite blowing a big lead.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:17:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Ky. and Ohio battle over boulder pulled from river (AP)
    AP - It's an 8-ton boulder that for decades sat, mostly forgotten, in the middle of the river that separates Ohio and Kentucky. It was a navigation marker for boaters that became the canvas for such fine art as a stick figure-like face with two dots for eyes and a dot for a nose chiseled into it. -- read full article
    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:38:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    'Sex' sells: Women give Carrie & Co. $55.7M debut (AP)

    In this image released by New Line Cinema, Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw in New Line Cinema's 'Sex in the City'. (AP Photo/New Line Cinema,Craig Blankenhorn)AP - Sarah Jessica Parker and her gal pals have not lost their sex appeal. The big-screen " Sex and the City " — reuniting Parker and TV co-stars Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon — strutted to a $55.7 million opening weekend, far exceeding Hollywood's box office expectations.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:50:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Inflation Watch continues this week on Wall Street (AP)

    Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street opens the month of June with guarded optimism, as hopes mount that the worst of the economic storm is over and that the peak has passed for surging crude oil prices(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Nagle)AP - Investors examine the same key economic reports at the start of every month — on manufacturing, the service sector and employment. This week, they'll be looking at these indicators for inflation clues as much as they will for insight into economic growth.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:54:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove after leak (AP)

    Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's book 'What Happened'  is seen at the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 29, 2009. McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:03:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Economic cost drives Senate climate debate (AP)

    In this May 21, 2008 file photo, customers re-fuel their vehicles at a Beverly Hills, Calif. gas station, The economic cost of confronting global warming - from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline - is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.  (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)AP - From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:21:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Some villagers linger despite China flood evacuation (AP)

    Farmer Yui Chengdi, 58, one of the last evacuees from the village, points the river which might be flooded over his village of Jiuling, Sichuan province Sunday June 1, 2008. Chinese troops equipped with diggers and backhoes finished digging a channel to siphon off water from an earthquake-formed lake that authorities feared could burst and further devastate stricken areas. As a precaution, authorities evacuated about 200,000 people. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - As others rushed for higher ground, the Liu family sat at home sipping tea and watching TV reports of a possible massive flood.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:31:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iraq cites problems with US security pact (AP)

    Iraqi security forces lead detainees in a police station in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Iraqi security forces raided a house in Al-Methaq area eastern Mosul and arrested 13 men as they found weapons and explosives in their cache, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Iraq's chief spokesman acknowledged differences with the United States over a proposed long-term security agreement and pledged on Sunday that the government will protect Iraqi sovereignty in ongoing talks with the Americans.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:54:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Clinton looks for victory in Puerto Rico (AP)

    Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., chats with supporters at the Kaslata Bakery in San Juan, as she campaigns on primary day in Puerto Rico, Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for a largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that brought Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:12:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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