AP - Her path to the nomination inevitable no more, Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to announce she is ending her groundbreaking candidacy and supporting Barack Obama, her rival in a presidential quest for the ages.
AFP - Zimbabwe authorities intensified a pre-election crackdown on Wednesday, detaining the opposition leader over accusations he had addressed a rally without authorisation and ordering charities to stop work.
AFP - Hillary Clinton Wednesday took a significant step towards healing the rift with her victorious Democratic rival Barack Obama, while stopping short of formally abandoning her own presidential bid.
Reuters - Anguished Chinese parents said on
Wednesday they will press ahead with complaints against
officials they blame for schools that toppled in a devastating
earthquake, a day after police sought to silence one protest.
Reuters - A U.N. summit on the global food crisis
asked rich nations on Wednesday to help revolutionize farming
in Africa and the developing world to produce more food for
nearly 1 billion people facing hunger.
Reuters - U.S. warships will soon leave waters
near Myanmar after the ruling military junta refused permission
for the delivery of aid supplies to the cyclone-stricken
Irrawaddy delta, a top U.S. commander said on Wednesday.
Reuters - California's Supreme Court gave
the final green light on Wednesday for gay marriages to begin
later this month, turning down requests for a delay.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai was detained on Wednesday as he campaigned for a
presidential election run-off, his party said.
Reuters - Developing nations joined the West on
Wednesday in throwing their weight behind the U.N. nuclear
watchdog's attempt to get Iran to clarify intelligence alleging
that it secretly researched ways of making atom bombs.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate
John McCain proposed on Wednesday that Democrat Barack Obama
join him in at least 10 face-to-face encounters at town hall
meetings this summer.
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama turned on
Wednesday to unifying a fractured party for a historic
five-month battle for the White House against Republican John
McCain, but Hillary Clinton offered no hints of her future
plans.
AP - Ed McMahon, who for decades appeared as Johnny Carson's sidekick on "The Tonight Show," is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home, according to published reports.
AP - Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
