AP - Barack Obama's campaign envisions a path to the presidency that could include Virginia, Georgia and several Rocky Mountain states, but not necessarily the pair of battlegrounds that decided the last two elections — Florida and Ohio.
AP - A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town from the surging Iowa River, which has swamped more than a dozen campus buildings and forced the evacuation Sunday of hundreds of nearby homes.
AFP - Kosovo's constitution entered into force Sunday, four months after it split from Serbia, opening the way for majority Albanians take over from a nine-year-old UN mission under European guidance.
AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to attack Taliban insurgents on Pakistani soil, saying his war-torn country had a right to do so out of "self-defence".
Reuters - President George W. Bush said British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown should only withdraw forces from
Iraq based on conditions on the ground and not an arbitrary
timetable.
Reuters - The board of American International
Group Inc was meeting on Sunday to accept the possible
resignation of Chief Executive Martin Sullivan, The Wall Street
Journal reported on its website, citing a person familiar with
the matter.
Reuters - Rescue workers searched on
Sunday for 11 people still missing after a powerful earthquake
rocked rural areas of northern Japan, killing at least nine and
injuring more than 200.
Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was
quoted on Sunday as saying he would be willing to hand power to
a ruling party ally when he was sure the country was safe from
"sellouts" and from British interference.
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday
threatened to send troops into neighboring Pakistan to kill
Taliban militants if they pursued cross-border attacks into
Afghanistan.
Reuters - Western powers are warning Iran of more
sanctions if it rejects an incentives offer and presses on with
sensitive nuclear work, but the Islamic Republic is showing no
sign of backing down.
AP - Rafael Nadal claimed his first career grass-court title Sunday, defeating Novak Djokovic 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the Queen's Club final to become the first Spaniard to win on grass in 36 years.
AP - A stiff drink comes with a stiff tax in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns these days, and that has made the county executive public enemy No. 1 in some quarters, reviled by name in song and on bar bills.
AP - "The Incredible Hulk" was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years ago.
