Summary: Scores of grieving Christians packed a Baghdad church on Sunday for the funeral mass of a priest slain by gunmen in the latest attack on a minority community that has become a target in Iraqs sectarian violence
Summary: China on Monday denounced protests that disrupted the Olympic torch relay in London and IOC chief Jacques Rogge expressed concern at the demonstrations but said there was no momentum for a boycott of the Beijing Games
Summary: Government forecasts for economic growth are above consensus and based on a questionable premise that Britain is better equipped than other nations to withstand the credit crisis a parliamentary committee said on Monday
Summary: After nearly two weeks of baggage chaos and hundreds of cancelled flights London Heathrow airport was hit by bad weather on Sunday which forced British Airways to cancel 114 flights
Summary: Britons love affair with the car is alive and well despite rising petrol prices and increased congestion with research showing just over a fifth of drivers would use their vehicles for trips of 500 metres and less
Summary: US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintons chief political strategist Mark Penn stepped aside on Sunday after news that he lobbied for a free trade treaty with Colombia that Clinton opposes
Summary: A Zimbabwe court will rule on Monday on whether it has the authority to order the release of delayed presidential election results which Robert Mugabes opponents say will show his long grip on power is over
Summary: An explosion injured a policeman in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi after Russias President Vladimir Putin met United States leader George W Bush RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday
Summary: Iraqi troops backed by US forces battled gunmen in Baghdads Sadr City on Sunday a return to heavy fighting in the capital after Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago
Summary: Kenyas president and future prime minister said on Sunday they had made substantial progress at talks to end an impasse over a powersharing cabinet and expected to clinch a deal the next day
Summary: Egyptians angry with the government about high prices set fire to shops and two schools in a Nile Delta textile town on Sunday after police thwarted plans for a general strike and countrywide protests
Summary: Top US and North Korean nuclear envoys meet in Singapore on Tuesday to seek a deal in which the secretive North delivers an overdue declaration on its nuclear programmes against a backdrop of steppedup sabre rattling
Summary: AP - China and New Zealand signed a sweeping free trade agreement Monday, the rising economic giant's first such pact with a developed country.
Summary: AFP - International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge called on China Monday to peacefully resolve unrest in Tibet, piling further pressure on its communist rulers ahead of the Beijing Games.
Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential
candidate John McCain will accuse his Democratic rivals of
making promises they cannot keep with regard to Iraq on Monday
in a speech that kicks off a week in which the war returns to
center stage of the U.S. presiden
