AFP - An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed near a Ural mountains city Sunday killing all 88 passengers and crew on board, after reportedly catching fire in the sky, the airline said.
Reuters - At least 25 people were killed in
the head-on crash of a commuter train and a freight train near
Los Angeles that officials on Saturday attributed to the
failure of the passenger train engineer to stop at a red light.
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
said in an interview published on Sunday he will remain in
office until 2010, a decision likely to stoke tensions with
Islamist Hamas rivals who oppose his peace talks with Israel.
Reuters - When General David Petraeus took over
as U.S. military commander in Iraq in February 2007, the
country was on the brink of all-out civil war.
Reuters - Police officers trawled slums and
criminal hideouts in India's capital on Sunday rounding up
suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier
killed at least 20 people and wounded nearly 100.
Reuters - The Bush administration is pushing
through a wide range of foreign weapons deals in a bid to rearm
Iraq and Afghanistan and contain North Korea and Iran, The New
York Times reported. -- read full article
Reuters - A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner
crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88
passengers and crew on board, including 21 foreign nationals.
Reuters - A weakened storm Ike barreled northward
on Sunday after slamming into the Texas coast as a hurricane,
flooding seaside towns, cutting power to millions and
paralyzing the oil hub of Houston.
Reuters - Regulators and bankers
failed on Saturday to reach a deal to end the crisis at
investment bank Lehman Brothers , and emergency talks
were extended to a third day as authorities seek to calm
jittery financial markets.
AP - P.J. Hill and Wisconsin spoiled the biggest game in Bulldog Stadium history. Hill ran for 112 yards and Allan Evridge threw a touchdown pass before leaving with an injury to help the 10th-ranked Badgers beat No. 21 Fresno State 13-10 on Saturday night.
AP - At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyer belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected only by a corrugated metal roof.
AP - The question of whether Sarah Palin has ever been to Iraq pushed Obama aides Saturday to accuse the McCain campaign of outright lies, distortions and distractions to the American people.
AP - The field of possible buyers for Lehman Brothers narrowed Saturday, but the parties involved in the discussions over the wounded investment bank's future were at loggerheads over how to finance the rescue.
