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Iraqi police say suicide bomber kills at least 20 (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009
Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive vest among a group of pilgrims worshipping at a Shiite shrine in read more »
Medics: 23 Palestinians killed in Gaza invasion (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Palestinian medics and doctors say 23 Palestinians have been killed since midnight in Israel's ground offensive. read more »
Sri Lanka says army moving on rebel HQ (AFP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - The Sri Lankan army said Sunday it was moving in on the jungle stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels, in a final assault aime read more »
Top Zimbabwean rights activist poisoned in custody: media (AFP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - Zimbabwean rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko, who is to appear in court Monday on charges of plotting to overthrow President read more »
Russia-Ukraine gas row disrupts supplies to EU (Reuters)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsReuters - Russia and Ukraine looked no closer to compromise on Sunday over a gas row that has disrupted supplies to at least four read more »
Series of powerful quakes kills 4 in Indonesia (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A series of powerful earthquakes at dawn Sunday killed at least four people and injured dozens more in remote eastern Indones read more »
Israeli Arabs on Gaza firing line lack shelter (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A rocket exploded a few hundred yards from Mateb Abu Nasr's house, driving home the message that tens of thousands of Israeli read more »
Marines in combat still seek a better flak vest (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to read more »
Diplomats say US blocks UN statement on Gaza (AP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - The United States late Saturday blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire bet read more »
Base jumper survives 60-metre fall with failed parachute (AFP)
Date : 04 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - A base jumper survived a 60-metre (200-foot) plunge from an Australian bridge Sunday despite his parachute failing during th read more »
Mexican warlock predicts US troops on border (AP)
Date : 03 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" says the United States will pull troops out of Iraq in 2009 and send them to the bor read more »
Chinese police detain tainted milk activist (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Police detained the father of a child sickened by tainted milk apparently to prevent him and other parents from holding a new read more »
Iraq police: 30 die in Iraq suicide bombing (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A suicide bomber sneaked into a luncheon gathering called by the leader of a local tribe, killing 30 people and wounding 110 read more »
Polish woman gives birth at London Tube station (Reuters)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsReuters - A Polish woman has become only the second person to give birth on London's Underground rail network since it opened 146 read more »
Zimbabwe judge keeps activists in custody (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A Zimbabwean judge has ruled that a respected human rights campaigner and 31 other activists accused of plotting to overthrow read more »
Pakistan reopens supply route to Afghanistan (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Pakistan reopened the main supply route for U.S. and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan on Friday after blocking it for thre read more »
Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Israel bombed a mosque it says was used to store weapons and destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives on Fri read more »
Sri Lanka says troops have captured rebel capital (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Government forces captured the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka on Friday, dealing a devastating blow to read more »
Hamas resilient despite Israeli onslaught (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Israel is methodically targeting the Hamas domain, bombing government offices, security compounds, commanders, and even Hamas read more »
Australia unlikely to accept Guantanamo detainees (AP)
Date : 02 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Australia will likely reject a U.S. request to accept detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the acting pri read more »
Rare Bugatti untouched for 50 years could fetch millions: report (AFP)
Date : 01 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - A rare Bugatti supercar left to gather dust in an English garage for half a century could fetch millions when it goes under read more »
Ghana ruling party says will boycott Friday vote (AP)
Date : 01 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Ghana's ruling party says it will boycott a single district's repeat presidential vote that could decide who will lead the Af read more »
Five dead in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan: officials (AFP)
Date : 01 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - A suspected US missile strike on Thursday killed at least five Taliban militants in a tribal area in northwest Pakistan know read more »
Egypt FM: Hamas must stop rockets in any truce (AP)
Date : 01 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Egypt's foreign minister said Thursday that Hamas must ensure rocket fire stops in any truce deal to halt Israel's assault on read more »
Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign (AP)
Date : 01 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday, killing him along with two wives and four children i read more »