World News
- No charges for Obama assassination plotters
Baltimore News.Net
Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.
- Obama speech expected to focus on economics
Baltimore News.Net
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American voters.
- Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
Baltimore News.Net
Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
- Russia condemned by international community
Baltimore News.Net
The G7, the seven most industrialised nations, have issued a stinging condemnation of the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
- Tropical Storm Gustav sweeps Caribbean
Baltimore News.Net
The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Gustav has risen to 14.
- Australian school teachers investigated over orgy claims
Baltimore News.Net
St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst, New South Wales, is under fire over child-sex allegations, following which the police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to alleged late-night sex sessions.
- Obama voted in by delegates
Baltimore News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
- World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
Baltimore News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
- UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
Baltimore News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
- Australia begins probe into plane crash that killed Indian
Baltimore News.Net
Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne.
- Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Baltimore News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
- Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
Baltimore News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
- Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Baltimore News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
- UAE president pardons jail inmates
Baltimore News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
- British troops in grave danger in Afghanistan
Baltimore News.Net
Afghanistan is now more dangerous for British troops than Iraq has ever been, a new report has revealed.
- Hijackers allow passengers to leave
Baltimore News.Net
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have freed all 95 passengers on board.
- Barack Obama plot put together by rascists
Baltimore News.Net
US federal investigation authorities have said that people arrested in connection with a possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, were consumed by a seething hatred towards the Illinois Senator.
- Cancer can be detected by odour
Baltimore News.Net
Researchers are developing a new tool to smell and identify specific gases exhaled in the breath of a person with cancer, for its early detection.
- The Clintons and a family bond
CNN
Bill Clinton's silent embrace of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones' son resonated loudly Tubbs Jones, 58, died suddenly a week ago of a brain aneurysm The public moment of recognition was the result of...
- 70 migrants feared missing off Malta
The Independent
Some 70 African migrants are feared missing in the central Mediterranean after a large rubber dinghy taking them to Europe capsized, the Malta representative of the UN refugee agency said...
- Russia frees Georgian soldiers, tensions persist
USA Today
RUKHI, Georgia Russian forces have turned over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of one of the separatist provinces that are now under Russian control.
- Ethiopia hints at leaving Somalia
BBC
Ethiopia is prepared to withdraw troops from Somalia even if the interim government is not stable, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said. Ethiopia invaded its neighbour in 2006 to oust an...
- NZ sending patients to Australia
The Australian
... the New Zealand Press Association reported. "While we are capable of meeting...
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