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Sudanese jet hijackers want to fly to Paris (Reuters)
Date : 26 Aug 2008
Yahoo! News: World NewsReuters - Hijackers who forced a Sudanese plane to land in Libya have demanded that it be refuelled so that it can fly on to Par read more »
Russia recognizes independence of Georgian regions (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warship read more »
Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Hurricane Gustav dumped torrential rains across southern Haiti on Tuesday, killing at least one man and threatening crops ami read more »
S.Africa cricket captain mulls over Nottingham mauling (AFP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - South African captain Graeme Smith says he will not be reading the riot act to his squad despite Tuesday's ten-wicket defeat read more »
Russia says Georgian attack negated UN resolutions (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Russia's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday he doesn't think Russia's recognition of two separatist regions in Georgia will lead to read more »
Modec wins Petrobras contract (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - The Japanese firm Modec said Tuesday that it won a contract with Petrobras to build a floating production and storage facilit read more »
Horrific road toll an economic drain on India (Reuters)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsReuters - The twisted metal of smashed up cars lining highways is a grim testament to India's road toll, one of the worst in the read more »
Airliner hijacked from Darfur to Libya (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Hijackers in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, an read more »
UN accuses US-led troops in deaths of Afghans (AP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - In a stark warning to U.S. forces, the Afghan government said it will try to regulate the presence of U.S. troops and their u read more »
Rio Tinto half-year profit surges to $6.9bln (AFP)
Date : 26 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - Mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday it had more than doubled first-half net profit to a record 6.91 billion US dollars (3.76 read more »
Dozens feared killed in Darfur camp (AFP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - A deadly firefight killed at least 25 people and wounded scores after Sudanese security forces thrust into one of the larges read more »
Thai protesters storm government TV station (AFP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - Thai protesters twice stormed a government-run television station on Tuesday, forcing it off the air as they continued to pu read more »
Pakistan's post-Musharraf ruling coalition splits (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - The ruling coalition that just a week ago drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency broke apart Monday, throwing P read more »
Iraqi leader insists on deadline for troop pullout (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign read more »
Russian lawmakers recognize Georgia separatists (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Russia's parliament voted unanimously Monday to urge the president to recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway r read more »
Philippine military C-130 with 9 crew missing (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A C-130 military transport aircraft disappeared shortly after takeoff in the southern Philippines with nine crew on board, an read more »
Drug raids in Puerto Rico target rural areas (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico, read more »
British agency pushing counter-terror propaganda to media: report (AFP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAFP - A British government agency is funnelling anti-Al-Qaeda propaganda to news organisations in a bid to damage the global terro read more »
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,147 (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - As of Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at least 4,147 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 20 read more »
Iraqis show video of teen girl in suicide vest (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - In video footage released by Iraqi police, a teenage girl with an explosives vest tightly strapped to her body is seen handcu read more »
Earthquake jolts New Zealand, no injuries reported (AP)
Date : 25 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked New Zealand's North Island region of Hawkes Bay, a geological agency reported early Tuesday read more »
Tropical Storm Julio hits Mexico's Baja peninsula (AP)
Date : 24 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Tropical Storm Julio drenched the resort-studded southern Baja California peninsula with heavy rains Sunday as authorities ev read more »
China's Hu in South Korea for talks on North (Reuters)
Date : 24 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsReuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao, buoyed by an Olympics that lifted the global status of his country, arrived in South Kore read more »
US deaths reach 101 for the year in Afghanistan (AP)
Date : 24 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force one read more »
Officials: Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 25 (AP)
Date : 24 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: World NewsAP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. cu read more »