| |  Latest News U.S. agonizes over whether to kill excess mustangs International Herald Tribune : Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral - unwilling recruits in an emotional debate over whether to thin, through humane means, a captive herd that already numbers 30,000. The champions of wild mustangs have long portrayed them as... photo: WN / junlops Aid workers fleeing Somalia over threats International Herald Tribune : At a time of drought, skyrocketing food prices, crippling inflation and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers upon whom millions of Somalis depend for survival are fleeing their posts - or in some cases the country. They are being driven out by what appears to be an organized terror campaign. Ominous leaflets recently surfaced on... photo: AP/Karel Prinsloo Beijing starts car ban The Australian BEIJING residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets today as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein in its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics. Traffic on the capital's normally jammed roads was noticeably light, even for a weekend, amid new rules expected to remove more than one million cars from the roads... photo: AP / Greg Bake Sri Lankan troops capture Tamil Tiger camp Irish Times Sri Lankan troops have captured a strategically important Tamil Tiger camp on the islands western coast, the military said today, as government forces continue their push against the rebels' northern stronghold. The capture of the rebel base in the northwestern district of Mannar came three days after the military said it had struck a "fatal blow"... photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena PM Raila to market Kenya in UK Kenya Broadcasting Corp Written By:Zipporah Njeri/KNA , Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 Prime Minister Raila Odinga leaves for the United Kingdom on Monday night, heading a high-powered government and private sector delegation that will spell out the transformed climate for new investment in the country. Mr. Odinga will be accompanied by Mrs. Ida Odinga,... photo: AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo Angelina Jolie, Newborn Twins Leave French Hospital Fox News PARIS - Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins early Saturday left the French hospital where she gave birth, the Fondation Lenval said. Before dawn, the Hollywood superstar left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice with twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, according to a hospital statement. It was not immediately clear... photo: AP / Claude Pari Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled - Yahoo Daily News By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 25 minutes ago CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.... photo: AP / Amr Nabil House prices tipped to fall 20% in two years The Times The value of homes in Britain could slump by a further 20 per cent in the next two years as the number of buyers continues to fall, experts predicted yesterday. Property values have already dropped by 10 per cent since prices peaked in August last year, wiping £20,000 off the price of an average home, figures from Halifax show. But Howard Archer,... Music: Deep Blues clues Star Tribune When Chris Johnson put together the inaugural Deep Blues Festival last year, he had no idea that the event would come off like a hardcore blues song. "If you remember last summer, we had a bad drought that lasted like 90 days," the insurance salesman turned fest organizer recalled with a pained laugh. "Somehow, on the days our fest... Oil Rises Above $131 a Barrel in Asia ABC News By ALEX KENNEDY Associated Press Writer SINGAPORE July 18, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press FONT SIZE Oil rebounded to near $131 a barrel Friday in Asia as news of an output cut in Nigeria helped to halt the sharp decline in prices that began three days ago.Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Greg Goode, of Indiana, right,... |
