Reuters - At least 145 people, mostly
women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of
thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern
India on Sunday, police said.
AP - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.
AP - The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday.
AP - The spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans urged church leaders Sunday not to consecrate any other gay bishops for now, as he ended a once-a-decade Anglican assembly that was dedicated to preventing schism in the troubled fellowship.
AP - A bomb hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them women who were sweeping the street in Somalia's capital, witnesses and doctors said Sunday.
AP - Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded Sunday at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India during celebrations to honor a Hindu goddess, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more. Police said 145 people were killed.
AP - South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War.
AFP - A roadside bomb ripped through a group of female street cleaners in Mogadishu Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians and wounding dozens, most of then women, witnesses and medical sources told AFP.
Reuters - About 30 pro-Fatah Palestinians who fled
to Israel after fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip were sent back
to the Hamas-controlled enclave on Sunday and the Islamist
group said they were immediately detained by its forces. -- read full article
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Reuters - Oil was unlikely to fall below $100 per
barrel as strong demand from emerging economies such as China
and India put a floor under prices, a member of Kuwait's top
oil council said in remarks published on Sunday. -- read full article
Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:50:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories