Summary: Reuters - The U.S. housing crisis and
credit crunch may end the American dream of property ownership
for millions of people, but for landlords seeking bargain
investment properties the market is looking up.
Summary: AFP - Pakistan's new parliament met on Monday, setting the stage for a showdown between key US ally President Pervez Musharraf and a coalition government that immediately vowed to take him on.
Summary: Reuters - A trip across the Rio Grande
on a hand-operated ferry is a brief one. It covers about 70
yards but it takes you back 70 years to a different era on the
U.S.-Mexico border.
Summary: Reuters - Hundreds of Serbs in north
Kosovo clashed with U.N. police and NATO peacekeepers on Monday
in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian
majority declared independence last month.
Summary: China said on Monday it had shown massive restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans which it said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama to wreck the Beijing Olympics in August
Summary: Pakistans National Assembly was due to hold its inaugural session on Monday setting the scene for a showdown with President Pervez Musharraf a month after his opponents swept a general election
Summary: Five years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq millions of people there are still deprived of clean water and medical care the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC said on Monday
Summary: AP - A man who has been hospitalized since Valentine's Day with respiratory ailments and failing kidneys told his brother he believes he was contaminated by the deadly ricin poison found in his Las Vegas motel room.
Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to change his style of leadership after a municipal election trouncing but aides ruled out any change to economic reform plans or a major cabinet shakeup
Summary: Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney, an
architect of the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, made an unannounced
visit to Baghdad on Monday to assess the success of a troop
build-up five years after the war began.
Summary: US Vice President Dick Cheney an architect of the USled invasion of Iraq made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Monday just days before the fifth anniversary of the war
Summary: AP - Pakistan's new parliament on Monday began its first session since Feb. 18 elections produced a landslide for parties opposed to U.S.-allied President Pervez Musharraf.
Summary: Reuters - Serbs attacked a U.N. convoy
carrying Serb detainees from a raid in Kosovo on Monday,
enabling several detainees to escape, witnesses said.
Summary: Imagine driving down the highway amid the typical stream of cars and trucks to suddenly discover millions of bees swarming toward the morning commute.
