Reuters - Guantanamo's only convict was moved to a prison wing all by
himself hours after U.S. military jurors found him guilty of
driving Osama bin Laden, his lawyers said.
Reuters - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of the
atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Saturday
and a call for world powers to abandon their nuclear weapons.
Reuters - It's not a battleground state and it's
unlikely to tip the U.S. election in November, but White House
hopeful Barack Obama came to Hawaii on Friday -- minus,
largely, his presidential campaign.
Reuters - Former U.S. Democratic presidential
candidate John Edwards admitted on Friday that he had an
extramarital affair in 2006 with a woman who produced videos
for his campaign, but said he was not the father of her infant
daughter.
Reuters - A Chinese man attacked two U.S.
tourists, killing one, and a Chinese tour guide on Saturday in
a rare attack on foreigners in Beijing, site of the 2008
Olympic Games. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:27:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Reuters - Russia said it had driven
Georgian forces from the capital of South Ossetia on Saturday
as part of an operation to force Georgia to accept peace in its
breakaway region.
AP - The wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen told jurors Friday she was "dumbfounded" and "shook up" after a flight attendant accused her of assaulting her over a spill on a first-class seat. Victoria Osteen, in court because the flight attendant is suing her, said she pushed no one and even ended up cleaning the spill that sparked the incident herself.
AP - Soaring gas prices have claimed plenty of victims from SUV sales to stock market portfolios. They now threaten to claim another: the expansion of one of the world's busiest airports.
AP - Preservationists are squaring off with the Air Force over the fate of a World War II-era building where researchers developed the first antigravity suits for pilots and early NASA spacesuits. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:15:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
AP - Across central Washington's fruit bowl, farmers are buying vineyards, hoping to establish roots in the area and capitalize on the booming wine industry. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:53:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.
AP - A microbiologist claims she was stalked for decades by Bruce Ivins, the suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001 who, according to court documents, was obsessed with the sorority she joined in college.
AP - Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen started to doze when she suddenly heard the bus emit a horrible noise, followed by the screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person.
AP - Fighting raged a second day Saturday in Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region as the country's interior ministry accused Russia of launching new air attacks on three military bases and key facilities for shipping oil to the West.