Summary: Reuters - British billionaire Richard
Branson said on Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett
through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data
provider Google as the search for the missing U.S. adventurer
resumed.
Summary: Thousands of devotees thronged to the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday to offer prayers for Mother Teresa on the tenth anniversary of her death
Summary: Britains new Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday reaffirmed Londons support for Turkeys bid to join the European Union and also urged the Muslim country to play a bigger role in the Middle East
Summary: A month after French President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out his vision for African relations intellectuals across the continent are still seething over a speech they say may have poisoned a chance for better ties
Summary: US President George W Bush says nuclear power is a key to tackling climate change along with new energy technologies but green groups want AsiaPacific leaders meeting in Sydney to commit to greenhouse gas reduction targets
Summary: AP - Lawyers for Sen. Larry Craig asked the Senate ethics committee Wednesday to reject a complaint based on the Idaho Republican's guilty plea in a police undercover operation in an airport men's room, saying the events were "wholly unrelated" to officia
Summary: As Americans debate how long to keep their troops in Iraq and whether the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki can deliver peace Iraqis too are torn over the same questions
Summary: AP - The full impact of the upheaval in financial markets "has yet to play out," a top administration official said Wednesday, while stressing that the effect will be dampened somewhat by solid economic growth.
Summary: Germanborn Pope Benedict leaves for Austria on Friday to pay tribute to Austrians killed by the Nazis and encourage the countrys Church which is still living in the shadow of a sex abuse scandal
Summary: UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoon visited the Darfur region of western Sudan on Wednesday promising to step up pressure for a political solution to the conflict
Summary: Food donations to the worlds hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations
Summary: A 6yearold Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries
Summary: Minda is a masseuse with a difference Her caress is used to abort foetuses The 50yearold grandmother has lost count of the number of pregnancies she has terminated in this largely Roman Catholic country where abortion is illegal and strictly taboo but whe
Summary: London Underground was restoring all tube services on Wednesday after a planned threeday strike by maintenance workers was suspended after 30 hours
Summary: Seven developing countries in Africa and Asia will be the first to take part in a new global health campaign aimed at directing aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries Britain said on Wednesday
Summary: Reuters - German security services foiled a plan
by Islamist militants to carry out "massive bomb attacks"
against U.S. installations in Germany and arrested the three
men behind it, officials said on Wednesday.
Summary: Reclusive North Korea thanked the outside world including arch foe the United States for aid donations after devastating floods last month that killed hundreds and left hundreds of thousands homeless
Summary: Pope Benedict on Wednesday made another strong appeal for the protection of the environment saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race
Summary: Reuters - British billionaire Richard Branson said
on Wednesday he was hoping to trace missing U.S. adventurer
Steve Fossett through a satellite mapping service offered by
Internet data provider Google.
Summary: Zimbabwes main bakery said on Wednesday bread shortages would worsen after closing one of its largest outlets due to a lack of wheat deepening a food crisis that a UN agency said was acutely serious
