Summary: Nine churches in the Diocese of Lichfield are to receive a share of more than half a million pounds in the latest series of grants announced by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund
Summary: Reuters - A female suicide bomber killed a
prominent Sunni Arab tribal chief who headed a neighborhood
security unit and three others in the volatile Iraqi province
of Diyala on Monday, police said.
Summary: AP - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is hoping talks Monday with President Bush will help break an impasse on allowing U.S. missile defense interceptors to be based on Polish soil.
Summary: Spains governing Socialist Party won Sundays election but fell short of the absolute majority that might have helped them act more quickly to cushion an economic slowdown
Summary: President Nicolas Sarkozys centreright UMP party suffered losses in the first round of French municipal elections on Sunday but avoided the crushing defeat some had predicted
Summary: Malaysias ruling coalition tried to regroup on Monday after a shocking electoral setback that decimated its ranks and sent markets swooning over the political uncertainties ahead
Summary: Azerbaijan unveiled on Friday a new church for its tiny Catholic community making good on a promise made to late Pope John Paul II to restore a parish ruined in Soviet times
Summary: Venezuela will immediately restore diplomacy with Colombia but ties are still fragile the government said on Sunday after this weeks resolution of a regional dispute that had raised fears of war
Summary: Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif agreed on Sunday to join the late Benazir Bhuttos party in a coalition raising the prospect of a government hostile to US ally President Pervez Musharraf
Summary: Iranian students who spearheaded a reform movement blunted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads election in 2005 doubt that voting for a new parliament on Friday can promote real change
Summary: Serbia faces renewed uncertainty on Monday under a caretaker government which will lead the country into its most important election since voters ended the era of the late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic
Summary: Christian homelessness charity Housing Justice has launched a new project which will enable churches to create affordable homes from redundant church land and property across England
Summary: Indian police have arrested a man suspected of raping a 15yearold British girl found dead last month on a beach in Goa in a case highlighting worries about the security of women visitors
Summary: More than twothirds of Britons dont believe the government can achieve its goal of building three million new homes by 2020 according to a survey published on Monday
Summary: China will maintain its one-child policy for at least another decade, the country's family planning minister said in an interview published Monday.
Summary: Reuters - An Australian women's magazine
apologized on Monday for breaking a global media blackout on
Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan, forcing the third in
line to the British throne to be withdrawn from frontline duty.
Summary: Reuters - China insisted on Monday it will be
able to hold a safe Summer Olympics after officials said they
had foiled two terrorist plots, while activists expressed
skepticism about the extent of any threat.
