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    Baghdad car bomb kills six, wounds 14: police (Reuters)

    A U.S. soldier stands guard near a damaged vehicle after a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shaab district July 6, 2008. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)Reuters - A car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 14 other people in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:06:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    OPEC's Khelil rules out oil price decline: APS (Reuters)

    OPEC President Chakib Khelil attends a plenary session during the 19th World Petroleum Congress in Madrid, July 1, 2008. (Susana Vera/Reuters)Reuters - OPEC President Chakib Khelil ruled out on Sunday an eventual oil price fall in view of strong Chinese and Indian demand, adding geopolitics and a weak dollar were behind the current spike, Algeria's APS news agency reported.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:44:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Jerusalem bulldozer killer acted alone: police (Reuters)

    Israeli rescue workers walk past damaged vehicles at the scene of an attack in Jerusalem July 2, 2008. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)Reuters - Israeli police have concluded that a Palestinian construction worker who killed three Israelis with a bulldozer in Jerusalem last week acted alone and not as part of a militant organization, a spokesman said on Sunday.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:38:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Afghan president orders probe into civilian deaths (Reuters)

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai interacts with the media members after a news conference in Kabul June 15, 2008. Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition airstrike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military says killed only armed Taliban militants. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition air strike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military says killed only armed Taliban militants.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:13:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Africa takes centre stage as G8 kicks off summit (Reuters)

    President Bush looks over at the Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda during a joint news availability at the G8 Summit at The Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan July 6, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - The Group of Eight rich nations will seek to convince a skeptical Africa on Monday that it is living up to promises to double aid to the world's poorest continent.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:16:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Finalists Federer, Nadal know each other well (AP)

    Switzerland's Roger Federer waves to the crowd after defeating Russia's Marat Safin, in their Men's Singles semifinal on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Friday, July 4 , 2008, to reach his sixth consecutive final. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - After moving within a victory of his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title, Roger Federer found time to catch only a few games of Rafael Nadal's semifinal. Federer does have a DVD of Nadal's match, but he wasn't exactly rushing to use it for scouting purposes before they meet for the Wimbledon championship Sunday.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:47:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title (AP)
    AP - Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. -- read full article
    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:44:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    'Hancock' grabs heroic $107.3M over long weekend (AP)

    In this image released by Columbia Pictures, Will Smith, right, and Jason Bateman are shown in a scene from the film, 'Hancock.'  (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures, Frank Masi)AP - Will Smith's box-office superpowers remain intact. Smith's "Hancock" — the story of a boozing, foul-mouthed superhero who dresses like a street bum — led the Fourth of July weekend with a $66 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:24:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Wall Street gets ready for earnings, oil moves (AP)

    Fireworks light up the closing bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday July 3, 2008, as a prelude to the 32nd Annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular celebrating America’s 232nd birthday. Stocks are closing an abbreviated session mixed after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the nation's services sector and a tame reading on employment. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Investors battered by surging energy prices, disappointing economic data and the ongoing credit crisis will have something else to worry about this week — second-quarter corporate results.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:19:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Special court for vets addresses more than crime (AP)

    Judge Robert Russell speaks to those in his courtroom prior to beginning the Veterans Court session in Buffalo, N.Y. on June 3, 2008. Russell is the evenhanded quarterback of a courtroom team of veterans advocates and volunteers determined to make this brush with the criminal justice system these veterans' last. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - The first clue that the Tuesday afternoon session in Part 4 of Buffalo City Court is not like other criminal proceedings comes just before it starts.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:13:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    McCain's health plan: A threat to employer plans? (AP)

    Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks at a press conference as his wife Cindy stands beside him during their visit to the federal police command control in Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - There's a great unknown about Sen. John McCain's health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies?


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:11:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Afghan officials: US missiles killed 27 civilians (AP)

    An Afghan boy is treated at a hospital in Jalalabad city, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 6, 2008 after he allegedly got injured by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul. Chief government official Haji Amishah Gul in the Deh Bala district says villagers have reported between 30 and 35 people walking in a group toward a wedding have been killed in a coalition bombing. Up to 10 people were wounded. (AP Photo/Nesar Ahmad)AP - Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:47:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    AP IMPACT: US wavered over S. Korean executions (AP)

    In this photograph taken by the U.S. Army in April 1951, provided by the U.S. National Archives, South Korean troops shoot political prisoners near Daegu, South Korea. The South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is investigating such mass political executions during the Korean War, and the U.S. military's connection with them. (AP Photo/National Archives, U.S. Army)AP - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:42:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    G-8 leaders face rising expectations at summit (AP)

    U.S. President George W. Bush, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda arrive for a joint press conference at the G-8 summit on Sunday, July 6, 2008 in the lakeside resort of Toyako, Japan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - The world's top industrialized nations begin their annual summit Monday confronted with demands they reinvigorate the world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:35:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Weather helps crews battling Calif's biggest fire (AP)

    Firefighters monitor a burning redwood tree along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Saturday, July 5, 2008. Cooler temperatures and marine fog allowed firefighters here to gain some ground early Saturday on an obstinate wildfire that wiped out this world-famous coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Cooler weather on Sunday gave a boost to crews battling the enormous wildfire that was threatening nearly 2,700 homes in Santa Barbara County.


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    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:41:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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