AFP - Indian leaders issued appeals for calm Sunday after a wave of bombings killed 45 people and left 162 injured in the religiously-tense western city of Ahmedabad.
Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
pressed Fiji in a meeting of Pacific foreign ministers in Samoa
on Saturday to ensure the country's military rulers held
elections as promised in March 2009.
Reuters - The United States, responding to a key
demand of developing countries, said on Saturday it would
discuss giving more temporary access to foreign professionals,
injecting renewed optimism into world trade talks.
Reuters - Cuban President Raul Castro
dashed expectations he would announce new economic reforms on
Saturday in a speech that instead warned Cubans not to get used
to hearing good news.
Reuters - Qantas was ordered on Sunday to check
all oxygen bottles on its fleet of Boeing 747s after
investigators said an exploding oxygen bottle might have ripped
a hole in a Qantas 747, forcing it to make an emergency landing
at Manila.
Reuters - India's major cities were put
on high alert on Sunday, with fears of more attacks after at
least 40 people were killed in two days of bombings that hit a
communally-sensitive western city and a southern IT hub
Reuters - The Israeli army killed a top Hamas
militant in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, prompting vows of
revenge by the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip. -- read full article
Reuters - The U.S. Congress approved a massive
housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency
financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
, and setting up a $300-billion fund to help hundreds of
thousands of troubled homeowners.
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday the
size of a residual U.S. force left in Iraq after the withdrawal
of combat troops would be "entirely conditions-based." -- read full article
AP - Mark Martin picked Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the spot he plans to end his 97-race winless streak. Then he announced it to all of NASCAR, an uncharacteristic burst of boldness that literally raised eyebrows.
AP - Here in the gentle hills of north Texas, televangelist Kenneth Copeland has built a religious empire teaching that God wants his followers to prosper.
AP - Four swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches, authorities said. At least three more had been rescued.
AP - Customers of two banks closed by federal regulators were assured that every penny of their money was protected, preventing lines of angry accountholders from forming Saturday.
AP - Republican John McCain's campaign on Saturday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for canceling a visit to wounded troops in Germany, contending Obama chose foreign leaders and cheering Europeans over "injured American heroes."
