AP - There's nothing easy about life in this village on the edge of the vast Thar desert. Summer temperatures regularly top 120 degrees Fahrenheit, there's running water for only three hours on a good day, electricity for about eight. -- read full article
Sun, 25 May 2008 17:51:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe called for unity in his faltering party on Sunday ahead of run-off elections next month in a fiery speech in which he also threatened to expel the US ambassador.
AP - The legendary leader of Latin America's most powerful insurgency, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, died of a heart attack in March, a senior guerrilla commander said Sunday. -- read full article
Sun, 25 May 2008 18:37:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Military commanders often ride to power atop a tank. But in Lebanon, the key to army chief Michel Suleiman's rise to the nation's top job has been keeping his men out of the fight.
AFP - Miguel-Angel Jimenez of Spain won the 600,000-pound (754,000-euro) BMW PGA Championships here on Sunday after a play-off against Oliver Wilson of England.
AP - President Robert Mugabe threatened Sunday to expel the U.S. ambassador for providing advice to the opposition opponent in the upcoming presidential runoff.
AP - Donor nations said they were ready to provide Myanmar with more than $100 million to help it recover from Cyclone Nargis, but warned the ruling junta Sunday they will not fully open their wallets until they are provided access to the hardest-hit areas.
AP - Michel Suleiman was sworn in as Lebanon's president Sunday after parliament elected him in long-delayed vote following an 18-month political stalemate that brought the country to the brink of another civil war.
AP - A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China on Sunday, killing one person and straining recovery efforts from the country's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 400 others were injured.
AP - A British diver thought he and his American girlfriend would be eaten alive by sharks as they spent a night floating over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a newspaper reported Sunday.
AFP - Afghanistan's parliament has started naming stay-away lawmakers, with a brother of President Hamid Karzai first on the list, in a bid to stop no-shows hobbling its work, an official said Sunday.
AFP - Zimbabwe's ruling party on Sunday scoffed at the return of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after his more than six-week absence as a non-event.
AP - As of Saturday, May 24, 2008, at least 4,081 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. -- read full article
Sun, 25 May 2008 00:20:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News