World News
- Obama voted in by delegates
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
- Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
- Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur 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.
- Oil giant to face lawsuit for deaths
The Australian
EXXONMOBIL must face a lawsuit filed by Indonesian villagers alleging that the US oil giant is liable for killings and torture committed by military security forces.
- A very Italian affair
The Independent
This year's Venice Film Festival got off to a cliché-ridden start: the sun beat down, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Italy's favourite Americans, flashed their dazzling Hollywood smiles and signed...
- Clinton endorses Obama in speech
International Herald Tribune
Former President Clinton has pledged to cheering Democratic National Convention delegates to strongly support Barack Obama's campaign for the White House. Clinton told the convention Wednesday...
- Scottish housing market shrinks but prices rise
The Herald
Scotland's housing market shrank by nearly £900m in the second quarter of this year, official figures have revealed. Registers of Scotland yesterday said around 7500 fewer houses were sold in...
- Single moms can succeed, new research shows
USA Today
Conventional wisdom is that boys who grow up without fathers are at greater risk of problems, from doing poorly in school to substance abuse. So how does that account for the high-profile successes...
- ABC finds new digital partners
The Australian
THE ABC has forged partnerships with fellow public broadcasters in Britain and Canada to pool ideas on emerging broadcasting technologies as it seeks to cement its foothold in the rapidly evolving...
- Utah survivor recounts harrowing Guatamalan plane crash that killed 11
Salt Lake Tribune
7:03 PM- Forty-five minutes into a flight carrying Dan Liljenquist and his fellow humanitarian workers over Guatemalan farmland, the pilots frantically started flipping switches and the smell...
- Swiss finally clear the last
The Independent
Anna Goeldi was executed for being a witch more than 220 years ago, the last one beheaded in Europe. On Wednesday, the Swiss cleared her name. The parliament of the Swiss canton (state) of Glarus...
- Women Take the Platform at Dem Convention
IPS
From the party platform ratified by delegates between speeches Monday, to primetime, headlining speeches by two heavy hitters in the election -- Sen. Hillary Clinton and...
- Democrats choose Obama as nominee
Jerusalem Post
Democrats formally named Barack Obama their presidential candidate Wednesday, putting their hopes of ending eight years of Republican control of the White House in the hands of a man who would be the...
- ‘A new heaven and a new earth stood before me’
The Herald
What they have said, over the ages, about the Bridgewater Collection William Hazlitt, writer and philosopher, in 1797/98: "I was staggered when I saw the works, and I looked at them with wondering...
- Gordon Brown given November deadline to save his job
New Zealand Herald
Cabinet ministers will give Gordon Brown one last chance to save his premiership but will try to oust him by November if he fails to improve Labour's prospects. Senior ministers believe that it would...
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