AFP - Philippine rescue teams battled furious seas and high winds Monday in a desperate hunt for more survivors of a ferry that sank in a typhoon with 862 people aboard.
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was holed up in the Dutch embassy in Harare Monday after saying he was abandoning his election challenge to President Robert Mugabe because of growing violence.
Reuters - The world's major cities are also among
the planet's worst polluters but they have the solutions to
most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading
environmental consultancy said on Monday.
Reuters - U.S.-led coalition troops killed some 55
Taliban insurgents who ambushed them in southeastern
Afghanistan, close to the Pakistan border, the U.S. military
said on Monday.
Reuters - Rescuers halted
efforts on Monday night to find nearly 800 people missing from
a capsized ferry in the Philippines as darkness fell and large
swells prevented divers from drilling holes into the doomed
vessel.
Reuters - American evangelicals remain more
Republican than Democratic but are not locked tightly in the
embrace of either party, according to a new survey released on
Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Reuters - European Union states agreed on Monday
to impose new sanctions against Iran, including an asset freeze
on its biggest bank, over its refusal to meet demands to curb
its nuclear program.
Reuters - Republican John McCain said
on Monday if elected president he would challenge American
experts to develop a futuristic battery to power cars and win a
$300 million prize.
Reuters - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai has taken refuge in the Dutch embassy after pulling
out of a presidential election because of attacks on his
supporters, Dutch officials said on Monday.
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama's race
will complicate his White House bid, Americans say in both
interviews and a poll showing that nearly a third of them
acknowledge feeling racial prejudice.
AP - Returning to his favorite stage and resuming his dominant ways on grass, Roger Federer started his bid for a sixth straight Wimbledon title Monday by sweeping Dominik Hrbaty in straight sets on a sunbathed Centre Court.
